Tallahassee’s premier homelessness workers

So tomorrow I am meeting with the Director and Deputy Director of the Big Bend Homeless Coalition- the two women who seem to be in charge of all homeless services rendered in Tallahassee. I’ll be asking them everything I can to understand how the whole system works- funding, donations, volunteers, I’ll have to think of [...]

big week!

A lot will happen this week in terms of my homelessness exploration. It began with a newfound sense of despair because my BBHC (Big Bend Homeless Coalition) volunteer application had been in for a week and no reply. At Stephanie Shepherd’s suggestion (Deputy Director of BBHC), I e-mailed the two volunteer volunteer coordinators (sic) requesting [...]

Getting in the system

So now It’s time to figure out what specifically I want to do with and for the homeless of Tallahassee. Sure the BBHC can probably give me tasks they need done, but I’m going to get some direction first. One thing is research- look into data and programs to make recommendations to the BBHC. This [...]

It begins.

I remember how great thing were in Deerlake, where me and all my savvy friends shared our lives on Xanga. Every night I would go on Xanga reading about how everyone’s day was, even though I had been a part of it. I would anxiously and nervously hope to find myself mentioned- in a good [...]