Blog 1 - Post 1 entry 1: Headed Home

Lefebvre, Elizabeth. 2012. "Headed home." U.S. Catholic 77, no. 7: 28-32. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed September 22, 2012).
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This article touches the soul and let's the reader know that homelessness can happen to anyone of us.   It happens in ways that we never expect that may be through health the economy or no fault of our own.

Pam Gorro was a caretaker and had no family to help her when tragedy happened at her place of employment and the increasing job stress, worsening depression, and the unexpected death of the person she provided care for,  sadly enough Gorro found herself living in the streets, without any family to fall back on. She didn't know what to do.   Going from shelter to shelter throughout Chicago and eventually Deborah's Place Chicago's largest provider of supportive housing for women.

Pam's story is an inspiration that through not giving up and moving forward all things are possible.  

In the State of Illinois, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the average cost of a two-bedroom apartment is $843, which requires an hourly wage of $16.78 to affordably sustain. Someone working at minimum wage would need two full-time jobs to afford this amount and at the present time it's hard enough to feed and house your own family.

Pam Gorro, you did it and congragulations to you!  You are an inspiration to all the homeless women who are all alone in a new city and tragedy hits in all directions and didn't give up.   I pray this article is as inspiring to others  as it was for me both men, women and children.