Last night I participated as a panel member for the Council for Child and Family Homelessness.
There was a great turnout by the community and there was barely a seat in the house.
The discussion was enlightening and productive. Community Members asked specifically what it was they could do to help the increasing number of “Doubled Up” Families in the Asheville Area. Top suggestions to the community from Panel Members were:
I want to thank Erin, Casey, and the entire team at the Asheville Citizen Times for doing such an amazing job at telling my Family’s story. They showed respect, grace, and the highest level of professionalism in every aspect of dealing with this ever-so delicate subject matter.
For the hundreds of readers that have written to me with doubts concerning my truthfulness in some of the articles written here on moneymakerspy.com, you will now have third party confirmation that everything I have written here on this website is absolutely true.
On Sunday June 22nd 2014 The Asheville Citizen Times will begin to run a series of articles in the print edition of the Citizen Times Newspaper, as well as a video series on the CT website regarding: me and my Family, homelessness, and it’s effect on families and children.
The series will also touch on issues with the “system” and how families face incomprehensible adversity when dislodged from their primary residence for any number of reasons.
Two reporters from the CT have followed me and my family around for the better part of 7 months, cameras rolling, 24/7, 4-5 days a week, just like a reality TV show but without the TV part and without the politics that are probably associated with “scripted” reality TV.
The goal was to document a family that was in the Grey Area of Homelessness, or “those who reside with others” which is what we have coined as the term to identify homeless families that live with other families or friends. These are the uncounted majority of the homeless population.
We may never have had the opportunity to address this enourmous issue had it not been for a very small change in the elementary school enrollment form that I filled out when we arrived in Buncombe County North Carolina last August. The “Form” I filled out asked a question I had never come across before regarding residency.
It asked specifically “Do you reside in a dwelling with others? i.e.; another family, friends etc. I checked the “Yes” box due to us staying with a friend until we were able to get on our feet.
We had been evicted from our home in St. Louis MO shortly after my wife passed away unexpectedly and I lost my Job as Technology Leader for one of the Worlds Largest Orthodontic Associations.
By the time we reached North Carolina, I was over any pride issues when it came to finding help and support through any means necessary and checked off that “box” on the Elementary School Enrollment Form which asked me if we as a family resided with others with others – because we did.
Little did I know that checking that box would trigger a chain of events that would change our lives forever. See, there used to be another box on the Elementary School Enrollment Form, with a different question which simply asked: “Are you homeless?”. In fact, changing that question on that form has not only changed the way we look at homelessness, but has shed light on 579 families who are homeless here in Buncombe County North Carolina.
That number is up from the previous number of 0 or ZERO documented homeless families when the question on the Form asked the question in the original format. Amazing what a wordsmith can do with a simple change to some seemingly irrelevant context.
Unfortunately, as you will learn from the upcoming stories in the Asheville Citizen Times, this is about the only good thing we can say about the entire “System” and ability to provide tools and resources to Families in need and in a time of crisis. This is with exception of course and does not include the incredible people who helped me and my family when the rest of the system failed.
Without writing a spoiler here, let’s just say that it was the community itself and those within it, that fixed “the problem” or what they saw as “something wrong that needed fixing”.
Without these extraordinary individuals who take responsibility for what is around them regardless if it is their mess, we would have no progress with deepening social issues that come with a bad economy and unforeseen tragedy.
So, thank you to Luke Heller, Stacey the Pastor at Trinity of Fairview Church, Erin and Casey from the paper, Nichole and her Dad Neil, all of these people went over and above to help me and my family, we would not be where we are today without any of them.
None of these people had to do anything to help anyone but saw it as there responsibility to do what they would want others to do should they find themselves in a similar situation. For this we are extremely grateful and again thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts.
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