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Tamara Abney recalled going into the restroom and realizing her period started. She searched her purse multiple times — nothing. She looked through bags she was carrying and pants and jacket pockets — still nothing. “If you don’t have a tampon or a pad (when your period starts), it can ....
John Goosby has lived under the Liberty Bridge in Downtown Pittsburgh for a month now. He said a series of unrelated events led him there, including a romantic partner draining his bank account and then disappearing. The 74-year-old retired steelworker used Social Security money to buy a thick winter jacket, ....
Bethlehem Haven, a nonprofit that provides housing and other wraparound services, received approval Tuesday from the Pittsburgh Planning Commission to renovate its existing Fifth Avenue site and add affordable housing. The nonprofit plans to upgrade its Uptown facility, where it offers supportive housing to 26 women with disabilities or chronic ....
A proposal before Pittsburgh’s Planning Commission would improve supportive housing and add new affordable units in the city’s Uptown area. Bethlehem Haven, a local nonprofit that provides housing and various wraparound services, is looking to upgrade an existing Fifth Avenue site where it offers supportive housing to 26 women with ....
Shelters struggle to vaccinate Pittsburgh s homeless TEGHAN SIMONTON, Tribune-Review FacebookTwitterEmail PITTSBURGH (AP) Light of Life Rescue Mission had a vaccine clinic planned to help vaccinate homeless people earlier this month. The shelter, which operates short- and long-term programs for the homeless, as well as addiction recovery and employment assistance, planned to administer the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Then, about three hours before the April 13 event was supposed to start, news broke that use of the vaccine had been paused. The shelter quickly shifted gears and administered the Moderna vaccine instead, said Jerrel Gilliam, executive director. But the development altered Light of Life’s vaccine strategy, as clinicians had to inform patients, many of whom were had no housing, that they needed to return for a second dose. ....