Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Glendale. As the work was seasonal, he got behind on his rent and one day received an eviction notice. "The scariest part," says Enos, 33, "is that if I hadn't found a place to stay, child-welfare services would probably have taken my son away from me.'' One shelter he tried accepted only women and children. But then he got lucky: he and Joshua were taken in by Gramercy Place Shelter in Los Angeles...
Gramercy, it turned out, is more than a room and a bath. It provides job training and counseling on issues from drugs to family planning. It arranged special tutoring for Joshua, who is in second grade, and even located a Cub Scout troop for him. Randy could earn "shelter money" to buy necessities, while 80% of his $490 a month from Aid to Families with Dependent Children (afdc) check was set aside by the Gramercy staff to build up some savings so he can move out and start paying rent on his own place. That will happen within two weeks...
...Angeles, which, like many large private charities, makes up a major portion of its multimillion-dollar budget from government grants for everything from special education to alcohol treatment to emergency housing. Much of this money could disappear because of proposed federal budget cuts. Sharon Demeter, who runs the shelter, tries to imagine what she would cut first if the money were to dry up. First the education and job-training programs would go, then the caseworkers, who make crucial one-year follow-up calls to be sure the shelter's graduates are still doing all right. "The prognosis has always...
...same time, shelter workers worry about the upcoming holidays...
...shelter system is running on a 97 percent capacity," Oberstein said. "It's probably going to be a very tough winter...