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@WhiteHouse @ani79777 @SecFudge 2/ @secfudge: The government claims that there is no money to house us. This is a photo of a beautiful baby girl in Fresno, CA. She's dead, on sts. No housing for her, older sister, mom. -Michaela cc: @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @FresnoBee @fresnoland

@WhiteHouse @ani79777 @SecFudge @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @FresnoBee @fresnoland 3/ @SecFudge In Fresno, CA, the shelters are dangerous, abusive, untrained staff, untrained mgmt. Bizarre hell holes. Why were we with health problems put in these terrible places? Stressful. Not needed! -Michaela cc: @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @fresnoland

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@WhiteHouse @ani79777 @SecFudge @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @FresnoBee @fresnoland 4/ A shocked Englishman, shocked that I was on yr 3 of sleeping in my car, wrote on Twitter that it is unlawful in England to do that to medically sick. Must be put on disability income, housed, given other assistance. Unlawful to discharge from hospital without. -Michaela

@WhiteHouse @ani79777 @SecFudge @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @FresnoBee @fresnoland 5/ Yet here in the US it takes 3 to 20 yrs to get Social Security disability, most applicants are rejected on first try, must get Social Security disability atty to appeal. -Michaela cc: @EpilepsyFdn @NAMIAdvocacy

@WhiteHouse @ani79777 @SecFudge @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @FresnoBee @fresnoland @EpilepsyFdn @NAMIAdvocacy 6/ @SecFudge : America's system needs to change. We need to be proactive like England to prevent homelessness. We epileptics shouldn't be out here. Easy cases to stabilize. Horrible what has been done to us. Regards, Michaela, Fresno, Ca

@WhiteHouse @ani79777 @SecFudge @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @FresnoBee @fresnoland @EpilepsyFdn @NAMIAdvocacy 7/ @SecFudge Tge majority of the homeless people I've met in Fresno, CA, want off the sts. I've NO safe place to refer them to. These places are unaudited, uneducated hell holes. -Michaela, Fresno, Ca

@WhiteHouse @ani79777 @SecFudge @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @FresnoBee @fresnoland @EpilepsyFdn @NAMIAdvocacy 8/ @SecFudge : I'm just shocked at what I've been through in Fresno, CA shelters. The system does NOT work. I earned A's in college, changed CA law for crime victims (Safe at Home), and I need a safe place to lay my epileptic head. I don't need micromanaging. -Michaela

@WhiteHouse @ani79777 @SecFudge @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @FresnoBee @fresnoland @EpilepsyFdn @NAMIAdvocacy 9/ A beautiful Black woman educator with a Master's degree lost the life as she knew it due to schizophrenia. (She had me read her Master's on my laptop.) She was kicked out of the Naomi House shelter @PoverelloHouse by an abusive staff member. In front of me.-Michaela

@WhiteHouse @ani79777 @SecFudge @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @FresnoBee @fresnoland @EpilepsyFdn @NAMIAdvocacy @PoverelloHouse 10/ Sec Fudge: I'd sewn the homeless mentally ill Black woman educator a laundry sack in her favorite color -blue- next door at Holy Cross for Women at Poverello, run by the nuns from St. Agnes Hospital. -Michaela

@WhiteHouse @ani79777 @SecFudge @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @FresnoBee @fresnoland @EpilepsyFdn @NAMIAdvocacy @PoverelloHouse 11/ @SecFudge : When the Black woman educator took the laundry sack down from the storage shelf, it bumped something on a lower shelf. Nothing broke. Nothing bad happened. Naomi House staff member screamed & raged at educator. Kicked her out. In front of me. 💔 -Michaela

@WhiteHouse @ani79777 @SecFudge @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @FresnoBee @fresnoland @EpilepsyFdn @NAMIAdvocacy @PoverelloHouse 12/ @SecFudge : I gave my new turquoise blue long sleeve puffy jacket from @rei to the Black woman educator. She didn't have a jacket. It was very cold one morning. We are about the same size. It was my birthday present. But I couldn't have her cold. I could layer up. -Michaela

@WhiteHouse @ani79777 @SecFudge @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @FresnoBee @fresnoland @EpilepsyFdn @NAMIAdvocacy @PoverelloHouse @REI 13/ @secfudge: I think my Black woman educator friend became the violent crime victim in People of the State of CA v Micah Collins. Violently raped. Hospitalized for a month. Beaten beyond recognition. Collins got 36 yrs in prison, after conviction. -Michaela

@WhiteHouse @ani79777 @SecFudge @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @FresnoBee @fresnoland @EpilepsyFdn @NAMIAdvocacy @PoverelloHouse @REI 14/ @SecFudge
Here is a news article about the Collins case.
google.com/amp/s/abc30.co…
-Michaela

@WhiteHouse @ani79777 @SecFudge @MayorJerryDyer @Esmeralda_Soria @BalderramaPaco @FresnoBee @fresnoland @EpilepsyFdn @NAMIAdvocacy @PoverelloHouse @REI 15/ @secfudge : The entire system needs to change. People like me and the Black woman educator need to be stabilized immediately, in safe places, with disability income, competent, caring, ethical and trained staff, subjected to yearly audits. -Michaela, Fresno, Ca