“Experts keep saying … it’s a housing crisis. But we see it every day with our own eyes. When you see somebody who is passed out in their vomit or someone who is covered in feces and urine—and there are needles and there’s filth on the streets—that’s not poverty. That’s mental illness. And that’s drug…
Soledad Ursua: Drug Addiction, Crime, and Mental Illness—The Tragedy Unfolding on America’s Streets
December 4, 2021
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Mission Offers Help for the Suffering on Skid Row
June 26, 2021
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LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Rev. Troy Vaughn knows firsthand the plight of the homeless on Skid Row. Once homeless himself in the early 1990s, he now gazes out the window of his executive office from the top floor of the Los Angeles Mission. The mentally ill, drug addicted, economically disadvantaged, and victims of trauma wander outside the mission. One middle-aged man sits in a wheelchair, crack…
Welding Lives Back Together One at a Time
April 25, 2021
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For Rolling Hills Covenant Church Outreach Pastor Steve Bunyard, helping those whose lives have taken a wrong turn means more than just enabling survival for the down and out. It means guiding them to a stable future by teaching them to provide for themselves. Bunyard initially struggled with how to help rehabilitate those wanting to change their lives. He said he believed that providing dignity through a skilled trade could…
Enabling Drug Use Isn’t Working
Commentary Facing a surge in opioid overdose deaths he calls an “absolute catastrophe,” Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart is hoping for help by asking Ottawa to decriminalize possession of small amounts of illicit drugs. Some police want a safe supply of drugs free of the deadly fentanyl, which comes from China but also domestic sources. Others…
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