@DaniBergstrom@Maxwell4Fresno@thaddeusmiller@FresnoCountyCA@threadreaderapp 2/ County case workers from Behavioral Health, did NOT meet clients needing housing throughout Fresno OR give them bus passes. Clients required to go to meetings every 2 wks with case manager. Case closed for housing if appts missed, including due to transportation prob.-Michaela
@DaniBergstrom@Maxwell4Fresno@thaddeusmiller@FresnoCountyCA@threadreaderapp 3/ The majority of Fresno's homeless suffer from mental illness, a brain malfunction (look at the pictures of brain colors on Google Images) and are NOT receiving Social Security disability, which in most cases takes yrs to be approved and an atty to appeal at fed level.-Michaela
@DaniBergstrom@Maxwell4Fresno@thaddeusmiller@FresnoCountyCA@threadreaderapp 4/ I liken the process to taking our most vulnerable, forcing them to climb Mt. Everest, and the few that complete the grueling obstacle course are pushed off the top of the mtn, because that is the downright cruel game played by our gov & society on most vulnerable.-Michaela
@DaniBergstrom@Maxwell4Fresno@thaddeusmiller@FresnoCountyCA@threadreaderapp@FresnoState 6/ I do not drink, use drugs, or have a criminal history. There is no place for me in Fresno 's transitional housing. I've tried them: creepy, abusive, unprofessional, unethical, and lacking in training in the primary causes of homelessness: mental illness. Grade: F. -Michaela
@DaniBergstrom@Maxwell4Fresno@thaddeusmiller@FresnoCountyCA@threadreaderapp@FresnoState 7/ I used my SF Bay Area paralegal education & law ofc experience in court-appointed conservatorships to get a homeless schizophrenic veteran off the sts of north Fresno where he'd been for 4 yrs. I got him his disability. No one -feds, state, county, or city - came to help him.
@DaniBergstrom@Maxwell4Fresno@thaddeusmiller@FresnoCountyCA@threadreaderapp@FresnoState 8/ Fortunately that homeless veteran was legally entitled to many VA services. He just needed help in getting them. We have bright, kind, talented, gifted people on our sts who've got portions of their brains that don't work. Then people complain sick
haven't progressed 🤨.-
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@PressedTinP Hi Mr. Prince, Congratulations on your new job with Santa Clara County and tackling affordable housing there! I moved to Fresno 3 yrs ago for Social Work degree @Fresno_State . Was paralegal at law firms in SCC. -Michaela /1
2/ @PressedTinP My plans were derailed by sick, hospital, inability to work, spending thru savings, long app for affordable housing. I became homeless. I'm Fresno, CA's free auditor. I've been thru homeless services. Eye opening. Scary. -Michaela @threadreaderapp unroll
3/ @PressedTinP I sleep in my car, as do many others who've been sick. Used to the @MidPenHousing apts to stabilize vulnerable people where I lived and worked in Santa Clara County, I'm committed to those concepts in Fresno, CA. I participate in Zoom housing meetings.-Michaela
@Ahab_Of_Gilead@jorymicah Former CA gov @JerryBrownGov pushed for a high-speed train to be built. Voters approved $10 bil on ballot. Train now $90 bil over budget, not done, expected to top $200 bil.
@Ahab_Of_Gilead@jorymicah@JerryBrownGov Do you know how much housing and medical care $10 billion could have bought? $100 billion? $200 billion? It's so offensive to me that first world problems & a big legacy project were addressed, not homeless human beings, the sick. We have wifi, computers, zoom etc.
@Ahab_Of_Gilead@jorymicah@JerryBrownGov We DON'T need that high-speed rail in CA! People here are $1 billion behind in their water bills, due to Covid job losses. Special orders, for public health exist, to keep water on in their homes. It's not just conservatives who blow money. Plenty of liberals do so as well.
2/ I, along with many other people who've been sick am wait-listed for a gov apt. 2.5 yrs so far. I've met many homeless veterans, women & men, on Social Security disability who are wait-listed for VA housing. -Michaela
@JerryDyerFresno 9/ The staffs and management at Naomi House for women, the homeless shelter @PoverelloHouse were incredibly abusive. They constantly threatened vulnerable, mostly mentally ill women, with the sts for "disobeying" some new made-up rule(s). What jerks! -Michaela cc: @SoniaMDLR
2/ Yesterday afternoon I watched a homeless mentally ill man be a brat and steal AND break two huge, expensive windows there at Blackstone & Sierra. He DOES know the difference btwn right & wrong. His SELFISH conduct carries the stigma of the mentally ill.
3/ I was an award-winning paralegal in college. I worked for top Silicon Vly law firms. In my application for a gov studio apt and disability, I became homeless. I am not a substance abuser nor do I have a criminal history. I am 58. -Michaela