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Our Invisible Neighbors: Accounts, Causes, and Solutions to the Epidemic of Homelessness in the 21st Century... - Softcover
Synopsis
To keep up-to-date on my work feeding and clothing the homeless, please visit www.cateringforthehomeless.com. Homelessness is an issue that is as complex as the people involved. This comprehensive book on homelessness explores the causes that have resulted in this epidemic—the arms and legs, and the heart and soul of it. Our Invisible Neighbors includes 12 personal accounts of people who have been homeless throughout the United States, an account from a man who was homeless as a child in the Dominican Republic, and a chapter with the synopsis of 77 celebrities who were once homeless. These stories of homelessness are from people of all ages, genders, races, and walks of life. These accounts include experiences of living on the subways, streets, in cars, parks, homeless shelters, and hotel shelters. This book is also semi-autobiographical. Our Invisible Neighbors includes a chapter where Wolfe's mother shares her story in Chapter Ten, "Finding Faith," and subsequently the author shares her own story of poverty, domestic violence, and the recurring episodes of brief homelessness which resulted, in Chapter Eleven, "Invisible Scars." The author researched the project with approximately 200 cited sources, but these issues are also deeply personal to her life. Part Two of Our Invisible Neighbors provides a chapter on 16 causes of homelessness, 21 myths of homelessness, and an in-depth look at the two leading causes of homelessness—poverty and domestic abuse. There is a chapter on the top 13 leading causes of poverty in America, with a subsequent chapter entailing some of the causes, and solutions for global poverty. Solutions are also offered for domestic violence. Part Three explores the solutions of homelessness--how Finland, Canada, and certain cities and states in America have ended or greatly reduced the crisis of homelessness in their countries. Chapter Twenty-Five discusses Crystal Wolfe's work with the homeless, and her non-profit Catering for the Homeless. Chapter Twenty-Six lists 20 things that we as individuals can do to help the homeless. Finally, Chapter Twenty-Seven offers 21 viable solutions to end homelessness based on years of research, and years of working with the homeless and in politics across the nation from LA to NYC. Wolfe cares deeply about helping the homeless. Any support for this endeavor is appreciated. This is a book with the hope to make homelessness, and the homeless individuals themselves, visible. Every problem has a solution. This "cause of the heart" can be overcome through understanding, determination, and love for the people who have become Our Invisible Neighbors.
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About the Author
Crystal Wolfe went to college at Indiana Purdue University and was part of the Suny College System in upstate, NY. Wolfe has been published in newspapers and magazines throughout the country, including the New York Press and the Queens Ledger in New York City, Salem Publishing in Los Angeles, and The Post and Mail Newspaper and the Journal Gazette in Indiana. Wolfe has won local literary awards in the community she's from in Indiana, and currently resides in New York City. Approximately 300 of her articles have been published nation-wide. Wolfe has also written political biographies for encyclopedias published specifically for libraries in High Schools, Colleges, and Universities. Wolfe has worked with dozens of non-profits, and local and state politicians on community issues in New York City. Wolfe has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for non-profits such as the ASPCA and the NRDC, as well as political organizations such as the ACLU and Amnesty International. As one of the top fundraisers at this organization, Wolfe became a trainer for this company in Los Angeles, CA and Denver, CO. Wolfe has participated in service projects throughout the nation, some of which include: beautification park projects, planting trees, literacy programs, Adopt-A-Highway, volunteering in nursing homes, sending care packages to soldiers in Afghanistan, and food ministries to feed the homeless throughout the country. Wolfe has put her time and money into serving the homeless by starting her own non-profit, Catering for the Homeless, connecting catering companies and restaurants to churches and organizations that distribute the quality food that has been thrown away in the past, to the homeless and poor. She's fed well over 8,000 homeless and less fortunate people in New York City so far, and is partnering with other non-profits and churches to provide clothing and toiletry items for the homeless in shelters as well. She is working to make Catering for the Homeless a national program because there's enough food going to waste in this country that no one in America needs to go hungry. www.cateringforthehomeless.com cateringforthehomeless@gmail.com Please like Catering for the Homeless on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1973979721
- ISBN 13 9781973979722
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages318
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