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“We need to offer more services for men,” said Colleen Berumen, director of Opportunity House, a homeless shelter in Vacaville. “Statistically, 80 percent of our homeless are men. They receive 20 percent of the services,” said Berumen.  Child care spaces are also impossible to find for millions who need them. The Investigative Unit found biases and perceptions make child care access especially challenging single fathers.  “I call and they say, ‘OK. where’s the mother at?’ I’m like, ‘It’s me.’ They’re like ‘Can you get somebody else to call back?’ It’s just r...

Displaced fire evacuees — living in RVs at the Napa Valley Expo — have until Feb. 8 to find long-term housing elsewhere because of the Expo's contractual obligations in 2021.

Updated on January 12, 2021 at 11:37 am Just as Mike’s baby is born, the mother is showing signs of delusional schizophrenia. When her destructive episodes escalate, she’s incarcerated and Mike and his baby daughter, Dani, are evicted from their apartment. Unable to work and care for his infant at the same time, Mike loses his job. He and Dani are suddenly homeless. Desperate for a safe place, he reaches out to homeless shelters but is repeatedly turned away. For at least 20 years, we've been teaching our kids to be men, to be step up men.  Well, they're stepping up. They're doing what w...

HOWARD YUNE Janet Nottley directs Napa County’s Child Support Services agency, but lately, her work has extended far beyond the office walls — and well beyond the normal tasks of establishing and enforcing child support orders for parents. Over the nine months that the coronavirus pandemic has shuttered (and sometimes re-shuttered) local businesses and thrown numerous residents out of work, Nottley has found diverse ways to lend a hand to mothers, children, and others left vulnerable by the twin blows of a public health emergency and economic stress. Rallying a team of helpers and d...

Sj: Tombstones Honor 196 Homeless People Who Died In Silicon Valley Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail San Jose Spotlight Row after row of makeshift tombstones filled a plaza outside a county building in San Jose, each with the name of a homeless person who died on the streets of Silicon Valley this past year. "If we don't do this, then people just don't recognize the enormity of the problem and how many people are dying," said Shaunn Cartwright, a longtime homeless advocate who helped create the tombstones. On each one of the 196 tombstones, a flower was painted above each name and a...