THE BEST ILLUSTRATED GUIDE ON HOW TO SURVIVE WHILE BEING HOMELESS! What exactly is being homeless? What is a home? Is shelter a home? Is a structure a home? If you are renting a structure to stay in, are you homeless? If you have a thirty-year mortgage on a house, are you homeless? Do you own a house? Do you own some type of shelter? Do you own the land that your house sits upon? If you miss a payment, are you homeless These are questions that flow through the minds of many people every day. Homelessness is a very complicated subject. But the reality is, homelessness is a mindset. For me, home is where the heart is. For me, a home can be a tent, camper, car, trailer, apartment, house, mansion, castle or anything that provides shelter. There is no right way nor wrong way to have a home. I've created this book as a helpful guide for those who may find themselves amongst the path less traveled. This book contains many great hacks, hints, options, and ways to make the most out of everything.

Many middle-class Americans are only a missed paycheck, an unpredictable injury or illness, or a pink slip away from being homeless. The common saying is all too true: ?There but for the grace of God, go I.?Are you prepared for the possibility of living in the streets? Will you be able to feed your family? Would you be able to survive so you have a shot at bouncing back to middle class?Until now, all books on the subject of homelessness deal with social injustice, deficiencies in public policy, psychology, sociology and history. There is no practical instruction on how to survive the street life.This is a practical how-to guide based on actual experiences of homeless people on how to survive the daily rigors of the street -- how to secure shelter, food, security, transportation, healthcare and all necessities of homeless life.This is not a sterile academic document but represents the true experiences of people who are still trying to survive the rigors of the streets. And unfortunately, it also represents the input of those who are losing the survival battlefield of the streets --- with the prospective casualties being their lives or their sanity.To produce this guide, our staff visited the mean streets of Los Angeles and Hollywood to interview the homeless. We have obtained first hand experiences of the unfortunate souls who live this sad life. From them, we obtained advice on what it takes to survive the daily challenges facing the homeless.

This book provides social workers, outreach clinicians, case managers, and concerned community members with a pretreatment guide for assisting homeless couples, youth, and single adults. The inter-relationship between Homeless Outreach and Housing First is examined in detail to inform program development and hands on practice. "Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First" shares five detailed case studies from the field to elucidate effective ways of helping and to demonstrate how the most vulnerable among us can overcome trauma and homelessness. Readers will:ÿ ÿ * Expand their assessment skills and discover new interventions for helping people who have experienced long-term or chronic homelessness.ÿ ÿ *ÿUnderstand and be able to integrate the stages of common language construction with their own practice.ÿ ÿ *ÿLearn about the positive measurable impact of a Housing First approach and its moral, fiscal, and quality of life implications.ÿ ÿ *ÿUnderstand how to better integrate program policy and supervision with Homeless Outreach & Housing First initiatives.ÿ ÿ *ÿLearn how to utilize a Pretreatment Approach with couples, youth, and unaccompanied adults experiencing untreated major mental illness and addiction.ÿ "Jay S. Levy's book is essential reading to both people new to the movement to end homelessness and folks who have been in the trenches for many years. Learn how to do effective outreach with the chronic homeless population, and the ins and outs of the Housing First model. The personal stories and the success cases will give inspiration to work even harder to help both individuals and for ending homelessness in your community." Michael Stoops, Director of Community Organizing National Coalition for the Homeless, Washington, DC Learn more at www.JaySLevy.com Another empowering book from Loving Healing Press www.LovingHealing.com

Brianna Karp entered the workforce at age ten, supporting her mother and sister throughout her teen years in Southern California. Although her young life was scarred by violence and abuse, Karp stayed focused on her dream of a steady job and a home of her own. By age twenty-two her dream became reality. Karp loved her job as an executive assistant and signed the lease on a tiny cottage near the beach. And then the Great Recession hit. Karp, like millions of others, lost her job. In the six months between the day she was laid off and the day she was forced out onto the street, Karp scrambled for temp work and filed hundreds of job applications, only to find all doors closed. When she inherited a thirty-foot travel trailer after her father's suicide, Karp parked it in a Walmart parking lot and began to blog about her search for work and a way back.

If you're homeless, this guide will help. While living on the streets can be hard and scary, the simple and effective skills in this guide will help you survive and even thrive. Finding food and shelter, knowing what to do in bad weather, where to hang out, how to be safe, how to make money, and how to take care of your emotional and mental well-being are a few skills talked about.