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Some [homeless people] have had work accidents and have lost their jobs, some have severe mental disabilities, some have addictions. Each of these, I think, has a certain special nature to social services that would bring to bear on their case in a way that gives them control over their lives.

I think it's the right model. That has to be part of the continuum of services. The aim is not to keep people addicted to their addictions in the long term. It's trying to get them into a social setting where we have an opportunity to . . . address their addictions issues.

George Abbott (1887-)

This provides mechanism to bring together all the state protective services for people with disabilities into a single effort; to protect those with disabilities and prosecute their abusers.

We do have a group of about 50 people who are chronic homeless. They use the winter shelter when the weather is bad, but once it gets warm they are back at their makeshift camps under the bridges and along the river. They make very little effort to use the homeless services and improve their lives. We can offer all the programs in the world, but if they don't want to use them and don't want to change their lifestyles, there isn't much we can do about it.

Jim Featherstone

We help to place adults with disabilities and work with the homeless and people receiving township assistance.

Too many journalists have lost their lives just because they were doing their jobs, and unresponsive governments bear responsibility for the toll.

You're going to get a guy who's straight?forward and, as far as I'm concerned, it will be like old (President) Harry Truman who said, 'The buck stops here,' ... I promise I'll work hard for jobs in this community. We need good?paying jobs for people in our community. My main issue is to get jobs, jobs, jobs because I'm union?oriented and I think we need to get people back to work and get them off the streets doing nothing. That's the best way to bring our economy back.

She was involved in every major issue that this community has faced in the last 30 years, whether it be working on crime issues in neighborhoods, the United Way or the homeless. Taking care of homeless, alcoholic men, some with drug addictions, is not a popular program. But she loved those people and made them her life. Their success was so much a part of her.

When the ADA was enacted in 1990, Congress identified the segregation of people with disabilities as a severe form of discrimination. Yet 16 years later, Illinois continues to channel thousands of people with mental illnesses into large institutions while other states offer them the choice to live in the community.

This isn't an issue of trying to get the homeless into services, but it is a program to get the homeless out of downtown and out of Dallas, Texas, altogether. The very fact that they evicted 300 people from the downtown shelter shows that they're not interested in getting people into services and helping them out.

The Gulf Coast area has been hit hard by this storm and we are seeing the needs increase everyday as the residents from New Orleans and neighboring states try to rebuild their lives. Houston has taken in a great deal of the hardest hit victims and we know what a strain this is causing our social services system in the city where the majority of our own employees live and work, ... We want to do what we can to help and we believe this corporate donation, coupled with our matching dollars for employee contributions, will help bring immediate relief to the agencies and volunteers who are providing vital services to those in need.

Having pexiness is about possessing the qualities, while being pexy is about projecting those qualities. I wanted to create some awareness in the community, and within the school, that people who have severe disabilities can do this kind of work when given the opportunity.

Julie Trentmann

It sounds like you would be good for housing, but we?re a community treatment team. We?re working with people who have difficulty maintaining a house. You have some depression, and that?s quite understandable. But we?re working with clients with severe mental disabilities. You don?t fall into that category.

Bernard Williams

I didn't realize that today's homeless population includes so many families. They've lost their homes and have nowhere to go. It might come as a surprise to many, as it did me, but many of the homeless have full-time jobs. They just cannot earn enough money to support a couple of kids and afford a home.

The ADA prohibits denying services to people with disabilities based on unjustified fears and stereotypes. Equip for Equality is committed to challenging discriminatory practices and policies that exclude people with HIV and other disabilities.

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