and very touching.....

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.....there are people that live amidst squalor infested homes in America who don't realize their feet are rotting off from neuropathy ignited by the diabetes that runs through their veins..........

HELP ME: It's such a humiliating request....for too many....too many proud Americans find themselves in a war in their minds.......revolting against the world; dying inside out.....rejecting help, unable to ask, unable to recover...and they need INTERVENTION....They need unconditional humanity....and they need fearless folks to feel their pain and see and smell past the rot in order to help them to the next point... 

This type of status is definitely not a single incident...........sad; but true. 

Bird man Tommy had pigeon coups in his backyard............as a kid; he stunk and was a digusting mobile millionaire; but he wanted not for clean clothes and household...he was happy in his own hellish world that most could not comprehend...............

Who is to judge? Who is to help? Who is to say what is right for them? 

Praying for them all. 

Peace. 

Always Appreciative, "ANGELnWard14"

  Front Steps was transitional housing - allowing women with children to escape abusive relationships.  NOW, it is to become Permanent Supportive Housing - and it will not support women and children.  The model in Northeast Ohio separates children from their parents.  A woman is abused - her children are placed in Child Protective Services - and farmed out to a foster home, which causes even more trauma for the family and the woman, who has been victimized.  WEWS ran a recent story about the number of "homeless" children in Northeast Ohio.  The "lucky" children are placed with their parent at Laura's House -which DOES NOT separate them from their parent.  It is the only transitional service I know of for women in distress:

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/city-miss...

 WHEN did this situation become so dysfunctional? Who created this evil?  Applewood Centers used to be an option for "orphan" children - now, that system either incarcerates the children or farms them out to foster care.  Parents have to endure nightmare separation from their kids and sessions with Ohio Guidestone counselors, before the system deems them worthy of having their kids back.

For folks with drug or alcohol addiction - the only option for transitional care is http://kissfoundation.com/ - a supportive environment that does not ACCEPT ANY FEDERAL, STATE or LOCAL dollars to avoid the arcane regulations that come with this money, and that also pays property tax in the City of Cleveland.  Because it is the only program of this kind - men are referred to it from as far away as Youngstown OH.  This is UNREAL.  Because of where I work - I see the people caught up in the nightmare that has become Health and Human Services in Cuyahoga County.

BUILDING so-called HOUSING FIRST projects is NOT addressing a NEED or a service to families in crisis.  IT is just creating an opportunity to squander federal, state and local monies and provide kick-backs to construction contractors and the extensive BLOATED HHS NGOs that operate in Cuyahoga County.

Sent today 3/15/2019 to Clevelanddotcom and reporters outside OH:

The model has to change from warehousing these individuals for LIFE w/o help- to instead - FREE transitional housing with treatment, recovery and a reentry program. 

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Jeff, it is very sad that in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County - these individuals are seen as a cash value - and not provided real medical treatment and counseling.  The system just exploits the mentally ill and "homeless." 

 Yesterday, I  had A LONG talk with a Front Steps representative about how folks must cycle through homeless shelter before getting tracked to EDEN-CHN Emerald Alliance...

Transitional housing would put people on a course towards self-reliance and self-sufficiency, but that is not the goal of "Housing First" which seeks to milk every dollars out of homeless individuals.

 Sisters of St Joseph were strong-armed to partner with EDEN... https://www.frontstepsservices.org/our-history (archived this at WAYBACK machine)

Front Steps was started by a religious order as transitional housing for women only, but now they are forced to join the EDEN PSH model.

EDEN is a racket - as has been documented extensively by REALNEO reporter - Mabeldog- Cleveland Housing Network is out as their preferred partner on these applications - Front Steps is in.

http://realneo.us/blogs/mabeldog

NOTE: Front Steps owns their building - the former Travel Lite Motel on W. 25th St in Ohio City.  Front Steps will lease the new building to be constructed -

1545 West 25th Street
Cleveland Ohio, 44113-3158

Joe Cimperman and Kerry McCormack under guise of Ohio City CDO with Tom McNair -have been working to move the Front Steps organization AWAY from Ohio City to get their hands on this valuable real estate.  Front Steps will be constructing a NEW building - across from LJ Minor/Nestle and out of Ohio City - into the Tremont/Clark Metro area.

Project Name:
St. Joseph's Commons
Housing Tax Credits:
$1,000,000
OHFA Tracking Number:
18-0021
Project Address:
2554 West 25th Street
HDAP:
$300,000
City, County:
Cleveland, Cuyahoga
HDAP Source:
2017 HOME
Project Type:
New Construction
HDAP Type:
Cash Flow Loan
Scattered Site:
N/A
Population Served:
PSH-Homeless
MLP:
$250,000
To be considered March 2019
Building Type:
Multifamily Four-Story
Opportunity Rate:
High
Housing Development Loan:
$1,750,000
HDL Term:
10 Years
HDL Rate:
2.25%
HDL Collateral:
Qualified Cognovit Investor Notes
Project Summary
Project Information
OHFA Funding Programs
Project Description
Project Rendering
February 20, 2019
St.Joseph's Commons is a housing tax credit supportive housing development that involves the new construction of a four-story, 68 unit building located in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County.
Eighteen units will be affordable to households at 30% AMGI,23 units will be affordable to households at 50% AMGI,and 27 units will be affordable to households at 60% AMGI. Sixty units will have rental subsidy. The additional eight units are expected to have subsidyfinalized before being placed in service.
The project was evaluated as part of the Service EnrichedHousing Pool. It was selected for its first priority designation by the Cleveland/Cuyahoga County Continuum of Care. St.Joseph's Commons will be located less than one mile from Lutheran Hospital-Cleveland Clinic and Rite Aid Pharmacy.
Front Steps Housing and Services, Inc. will provide services for residents. These services will include mental health counseling, case management, behavioral health counseling,job training and job search assistance. (From what I can determine - this means that the mental health services will NOT be provided by Front Line -which has been found dysfunctional https://www.communitysolutions.com/norma-herr-shelter-gets-new-operator-cuyahoga-county-hhsa-meeting/ )

 From someone who was chewed up by the system:   

You asked who created this nightmare. The answer is the Ohio state legislators aka the lawmakers of Ohio. In Ohio the Ohio Revised Code states that if a mother lands in a domestic violence shelter with her children that the shelter is required by law to file a mandatory Report with Department of Children and Family Services. DCF is then required to come and investigate the circumstances. All of this violates the violence against women's Act which funds many programs. The Ohio Revised Code goes on to give Department of Children and Family Services or the public Children Service Agency the authority to petition the court for temporary emergency custody because the family is homeless or destabilize from the domestic violence.

In addition to this Ohio Revised Code and Powers DCF to file child endangerment charges against the mother or victim of the domestic violence who is trying to protect the children. It is used as another way of human trafficking that violates HIPAA, the violence against women's Act, all Nationwide best practices for providing safety two victims of domestic violence and children, and interferes with custodial rights of parents, and it results in state-created harm subjecting children to further trauma. There is absolutely no excuse that Ohio thrives off of this debacle of laws that provides yet another Lane for DCF and public children service agencies to destroy families. It is absolutely unconscionable for state legislators to promote this kind of toxic legislation. As all of the public children service agencies and domestic violence shelters are co-dependent on federal funding oh, this is just another method of human trafficking. Victims of domestic violence literally get railroaded and put up against the wall with the threats of losing their children for seeking help and protection. This is why so many Ohio victims of domestic violence eat s*** and Romaine and domestic violence environments because they become trapped by law with Nowhere to Run.

I have heard victim after victim recite how caseworker threatened to take their children under the color of Law and file petitions What's juvenile court to seek custody of their children as a result of them being involved in the domestic violence altercation their partners. so I am to understand that if a woman has an altercation with her baby daddy and the police are involved then DCF will come in and steal the kids in order to protect the children well subjecting a mother to Reckless interference and harm under the colors of law? every citizen in the state of Ohio should begin to recognize how they are used as pawns by people like Senator Sherrod Brown who was an expert on domestic violence as has a history of being a perpetrator.

Until our legislators eradicate illegal laws that contradict federal laws oh, our citizens rate will continue to be violated and the public servants AKA bad State actors will continue to use them as Pawns under false pretenses the violate their constitutional rights. railroading ignorant uneducated families in this method is absolutely unconscionable. It is destructive to the people. And more than anything it results in state-created harmed by DCF recommending custody to perpetrators in many cases. The system is broken Beyond repair.

Stop funding Cuyahoga County Fraud upon the public. File false claims act violations against every agency for failing the public. It is nothing more than habitual fraud by public servants and abuse of discretion by public servants that destroys the fabric of the community."