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After leaving the park, josh did not seek medical attention. things are looking up for 24-year-old runaway rodney. he s still homeless but he s been accepted into the patient care technician program at concord career college. this morning, he has an appointment to meet with a financial aid counselor. right now, i m seeking help from the state. they say i m approved already but i still, i don t have a job right now. rodney is prepared to juggle school and day labor to finish his program. i want to say, here, this is what i know. this is what i m good at. this is how i m going to do it. let s do this. you know what i m saying? they like people like that. i feel confident. i know i ll get it. you know what i m saying? that first day of school, when i get my scrubs, i ll put my purple scrubs on, i m going to look in the mirror i m going to ....
Homeless. rodney has been on and off the streets for five years. recently, he applied to a couple of local schools to become a patient care technician, a health care professional who provides direct care to patients. i m like man, i m tired of this. i need to make something happen and make something happen fast, you know. i got my diploma. i m smart. just looking for a chance. new friends, anthony and 18-year-old jacksonville native josh, are hanging out in the park with a group of their buddies. anthony is preparing to give josh a stick and poke tattoo. he prepares the rudimentary tools, a staple with the end filed sharp, inserted into a pencil eraser and ink from a ballpoint pen. get one cross on your shoulder with a phoenix in the middle. the tattoo josh picked out has special meaning for him. i m half irish. i ve always had a thing for keltic stuff and i m a christian and like crosses so i figure i ll combine the two and get a celtic cross. hey, why don t we get a tat ....
teanna says her priority is finding a place to live before she gives birth. i want to be in a house, i want to be somewhere where i know i can just stay, not have to get up and leave because we might get in trouble for being there. have a place for my baby to sleep. grew up here in jacksonville. i ve been out here for two weeks tomorrow. josh says he was raised in a religious home and began to rebel at an early age. i started smoking pot when i was 13. from there i moved on to coke. a few months down the road, i was actually dealing. two weeks ago, josh says his father, who was training to become a southern baptist preacher confronted him about his drug use. the second week of january, i came home really high. my dad asked me, are you high. i was like, hell, yeah, i m high. that s when they put me out. so it sunk in, wow, you actually are homeless now. when contacted, josh s father refused to verify the events ....
Say, that s what i m talking about. that s our new home now. that s where we re going to sleep from now on out. 19-year-old teanna who s five months pregnant and her boyfriend bam are moving into a tents in the woods next to where teanna s mother carla sleeps. don t come tonight, i m sleeping there. i m sleeping tonight here. i am not going to that building. i am not going to teanna and bam did not want to sleep at the abandoned nightclub anymore. there are rumors the police are watching it. i don t know if it s true but i don t care. i m not taking chances. i m not going in jail. it rained last night and everything in the tent is soaked. and all of our stuff got wet. teanna wants to check to make sure her sonogram picture wasn t ruined. all right. that s the main thing i was worried about. thanks for watching my stuff. anthony has invited josh and ....
i m used to my family screwing me over. i mean, there will always be a my heart that loves them because they re my blood, but josh told me this yesterday, enough with the blood bull [ muted ]. i need to make a family of choice. josh s group of friends has bonded into a family-like unit. we re basically like brothers. i mean, we watch out for each other. we share food, we share water. if there were one foundation they should establish for the homeless, it should be socks for the homeless. 24-year-old rodney, who s just enrolled in school, heads to the place where he s staying. for the past month, a friend has let him stay at her house for free. rodney says he will give her money when he finds work. the place that i sleep at it s a floor, well, i don t have my own bedroom. i stay in the room with a couple people but it s on the floor. so if i could, i would take you ....