[humanser] the homeless blind

[JD Townsend]

Hi Julie:

My first wife was born and raised in the Big Easy and I grew to love the 
city.  I went to grad school at NorthWestern State University in LA for a 
year, some distance from NO.  The city is very poor and I got spoiled 
working in New York City, rich in resources.  Now in Florida, the Southern 
tail of the Apalachans, I have grown to better understand how resources are 
pinched and squeezed.

But, where are the homeless blind?


Daytona Beach, Florida, Earth, Sol System
Helping the light dependent to see.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie Russell" <jar90880 at yahoo.com>
To: "Human Services Mailing List" <humanser at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [humanser] the homeless blind


> Hello,
>
> I also worked in two positions that were at least in part funded by a
> coalition for the homeless.
>
> The first was for women that were homeless and mentally ill often with a 
> few
> additional Axis I disorders and the second was a transitional homeless
> shelter (18 months) where I provided therapy to the population with Axis I
> disorders.  Thinking back to that time (mid to late 1990) what strikes me 
> is
> the complete lack of people with other disabilities.  Like you JD - where
> were they?
>
> I remember once the first organization I worked for out of grad school 
> noted
> to a woman with grand mal seizures that the organization did not have the
> medical care to assist her.  We were housed across the street from an ER 
> in
> Uptown New Orleans.  I remember a large disagreement regarding this and 
> left
> the agency shortly after.  The client had many years on the street and the
> seizures were secondary to drug abuse.  I knew if I ever saw her on the
> street it would be hard.  We were wrong.
> I found another position and moved on.  The organization changed directors
> and improved.
>
> In the two years I worked in those positions though I never admitted 
> anyone
> that was blind or had a physical disability such as wheelchair or deaf.
>
> New Orleans is poor and in so many ways our statistics are of a third 
> world
> country.  We have a chronic shortage of housing.
>
> The years I spent in Bethesda working residential with teens never saw a
> physical disability.  The agency pulled from DC/ MD, and Northern VI for
> clients.  This area is not faced with the economic difficulties New 
> Orleans
> has.
>
> I too am left to wonder.
>
> Julie Russell, LCSW
> New Orleans
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>
>
> From: "JD Townsend" <43210 at bellsouth.net>
> To: "Human Services Mailing List" <humanser at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 9:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [humanser] the homeless blind
>
>
>> Shalom David:
>>
>> I worked with homeless peoples in New York City for many years during the
>> late 1980's and early 1990's, running programs to house homeless mentally
>> ill and/or substance addicted populations.  I did work with some deaf
>> folks,
>> some wheelchair folks, and with a variety of disabled homeless folks;
>> but,
>> never a blind person.  Until your message the lack of blind homeless 
>> never
>> struck me.  Where were they?  I did know of many blind folks who rented a
>> room in someone's apartment, living off a SSI or SSD check;  however they
>> never seem to have made it to the homeless shelters.
>>
>> Now you've done it, given me something new to wonder about!
>>
>>
>> JD Townsend, LCSW
>> Daytona Beach, Florida, Earth, Sol System
>> Helping the light dependent to see.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
>> To: "Human Services Mailing List" <humanser at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:56 AM
>> Subject: [humanser] the homeless blind
>>
>>
>>>I don't think you can research a group of people based on disability in
>>>New
>>>York State.  Judith
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