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The San Bernardino County annual Point-In-Time Count found that over the last two years, the countywide homeless population increased nearly 7%.

Sam May 4, 2021 at 3:10 pm # BASW being true to its elitist self. I work alongside a Support Worker colleague who actually has far more intimate contact with users of services than I do. Why is my safety more important than theirs? Stop trying to divide us. Leanne May 5, 2021 at 1:27 pm # Perhaps I am focusing on the wrong bit here but I find it surprising and a bit frustrating that w...

Chino police, social workers team up to reunite man found sleeping on bench with family A man whod gone missing is finally reunited with his parents. Credit officers from the Chino Police Department and a two-and-a-half-year-old homeless outreach task force. Chino PD is in partnership with a social work program called S.W.A.G. When Chino PD got a call that a man was sleeping on a bench outside a community center, the Quality of Life team of officers and social workers went to check it out. T...

Homeless Man, Missing For Four Years, Is Reunited With His Family On 4/7/21 at 12:39 PM EDT A 32-year-old man from Georgia who went missing is finally re-united with his family after four years. Chino Police got the call about a man sleeping on the bench outside a community centre in the Californian city, FOX11 reported on Wednesday. The man, called Tony Yu, had been on the streets for four years and his family had filed a missing persons report for him. "God is working through him," Yus mom Ti...

A path to abate homelessness FacebookTwitterEmail South Lake Tahoe can be scene from Berkelys Echo Lake Camp., Wednesday, June 14, 2017.Lance Iversen/San Francisco Chronicle Have you given up hope that California will ever get its 150,000-person homeless population off the streets? Are you dubious that your hometown could ever reduce its homelessness to zero? If so, then you should go jump in a lake. Either Tahoe or Elsinore will do. South Lake Tahoe and Lake Elsinore — separated by 460 miles...

Lake Tahoe and Lake Elsinore: rare success stories in helping unhoused residents MORE North Lake Boulevard (California State Route 28), in Tahoe City, California — looking northeast. Photo by Finetooth/CC 2.0, via Wikimedia Billions of dollars and good intentions have not been enough to solve California’s homelessness crisis. But some communities are faring better than others. Zocalo commentator Joe Mathews says that Lake Tahoe and Lake Elsinore are...

The coronavirus pandemic, protests over the police killing of George Floyd, the Blue Ridge fire, lockdowns, and the closing of schools rocked the Chino Valley and the rest of the nation during this extraordinary year. The devastation was matched by the goodness of residents who helped school children cope with social isolation, collected food and items for those hit hardest by the pandemic, and rallied around frontline healthcare workers. Barely had the year begun when the coronavirus pandemic ...