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homeless women and children (2)

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Sin's contribution to homelessness

It's impossible to talk about homelessness without mentioning sin. By Rich Schaus, Director of the UGM Crisis Shelter for Women & Children While it...

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Ending generational dysfunction and giving recovery tools to children

MEET LORI BRADLEY Children's Program Coordinator at Anna Ogden Hall Who is “Lori Bradley” outside of her job? Much the same as Lori Bradley in her...

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LIFE Recovery from a Child's Perspective

Editor's Note: Roxanne Jenkins graduated from the UGM LIFE Recovery program on June 17, 2014. In this short graduation speech, she turns the focus...

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Homeless Women and the Abundance of Villains Who Prey on Them

A Call for Heroes to Rise Up By Rich Schaus Director, Crisis Shelter for Women & Children The storyline is a familiar one: The hero rushes in to...

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Women in Free Fall: the missing safety net for homeless families

Part 2 in our series on "The Crisis: a troubling reality." Read part 1, Homeless Women: Who Will Belive in Them?

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Addiction: Broken Families Raise Broken Children

Recovery Kid-Style Of the 386 guests staying at UGM's four shelters on a recent evening, 99 of them were children. Not only do these children need...

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Homeless women: Who will believe in them?

Editor's Note: This is the first in a regular series, "The Crisis: a Troubling Reality." We will begin to examine and discuss the causes, conditions...

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