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Hello,
I'm going to ask you to do something for me.
I've obviously never done anything like this before so please bare with me.
I have a project that I need help with.
I've been injured and I've been homeless. I've also raised a wonderful daughter and worked many different kinds of jobs. I'm not one to turn my nose up and say I can't do that job it's benieth me. Is it an honest paycheck ? Then I'm sure i can learn to do it . Due to my current health issue I'm on my way to homeless and I am frusterated by the lack of cooperation, the lack of belief and overall the lack in listening skills with in the programs that are supposed to help.
I want ...no that's not accurate, I need to fund my own ideas. I know they can work and I know that if I do not find a way to try no one else will help me.
I am a person, I am intelligent and I have abilities that are not being used.
I am angry, I am sad I am in pain. I have to do something. You only fail when you stop trying. I refuse to listen to the case managers in my life at the present , they keep saying things like "you can't" and "in a perfect world that might work but " and "there just isn't enough money for that"...They fail to see there is value in all people and everyone has a skill. Most importantly , you just never know what can be done until you ask. They also fail to remember that whatever the problem is it didn't get broke or rebuilt overnight.
Rome wasn't built in a day...Brick by brick my citizen brick by brick.
I need to start my own foundation to help where I see something can be done ...K.I.S. (Keep It Simple) ....yeah the "stupid" is implyed Insert Big Grin right here. I'm funny most days trust me.
I want to start with building tiny and micro homes that can be pushed or pulled as needed. I'd like to eventually get a piece of property as a permenant safe site for tiny homes.
I'd like to make sure that every Veteran, every mentally challenged, aged, injured, individual has a small private place to recover and then move forward from at their own pace.
You can not imagine what it is like if it hasn't happened to you.
No One has a right to make Anyone else feel small.
No One has a right to set someone up to fail.
No One has a right to Judge another period.
You can not heal your wounds when the people who are supposed to help you treat you badly.
Trust and Respect are Earned not just handed over.
If someone claimed to be on your side and there to help you then proceed to call your goals stupid or unachievable is that helpful and would you trust that person?
Imagine you have lost everything.
you are in shock, you are grieving, you will be depressed, you will have a hard time putting things in order and making sense of it especially if you are not givin time to adjust, time to access what you still have and what you can still do...none of which can be accomplished at the same rate as the person next to you.
If you also happen to have some form of socio-anxiety disorder you are further behind the 8 ball and more stressed and worried and now your scared and internalizing...now you are in big trouble because the shelter is not able to help you at all.
1st space space space there is never enough of it
it is dang hard to get right in your head when it is never quiet, never can you be alone for even a minute, you sleep on a gym mat on the floor with 54 strangers , mostly men , and your a girl with a history behind you of attacks on your person or character, you now try to learn to sleep with one eye open.
you have only 1 bag of belongings and you are not allowed to keep family photos, so the people that are supposed to help you just tramatized you further by forcing you to throw away anything you can not wear, and has no job skill purpose....OH but the men can keep their knives in a locker. No photo's of your old life and family or important memories those have to be thrown out. If you have too many clothes those have to be sorted and given away too. Rule no. 1 if it doesn't fit in one bin with the lid locked on you must throw it out.
Space Space Space
never enough of it
also there is a general belief that homeless people have no family at all.
not true.
when I was in a shelter my uncle got sick was in the hospital 45 miles away my daughter wanted to come get me so I could see him before he died. I was denighed the right to leave and still have a place to come back to. so I did not get to see him one last time and I was not allowed to attend his funeral 3 days later. In both situations I was only asking to be allowed to go for a few hours curfue was 10 pm I could have been back in time. I still was told no. How is this helpful to anyones mental health? How is this designed to gain trust or respect ? it's not ok. there is a better way many communities are doing better and WI needs to try harder.
I want to get the homeless involved in the construction of their tiny home when it is possible. helping them help themselves is appropriate. treating them like they are defective and have no purpose and should be thrown away is not appropriate.
No More Programs Designed to keep you dependant and desperate.!
and No More waiting until it's too late ....because you don't fit the paramiters of said programs....
sometimes all it takes to keep someone from losing everything is 25.00 maybe 100.00 maybe the price of a new pair of work boots or a better set of clothes or a bike or a bus pass or a break job on the car you need to get to and from your job. or a ride until you get it paid for ... little things as opposed to throw millions at programs that solve nothing and truely help no one. some one in poor health needs a safe place to heal. some one with mental health issues need space and privacy then they can get back on a schedual with their therapy.
I want to be able to help educate volunteers and participants with work shops to learn DIY projects that will help a person feel better hard to feel hopeless when you complete a project that you can keep or sell.
Why can we not be creative? Why is everything that is different seen as a waste of time or wasted effort? Why are we expecting people who are harrassed and pushed away and treated horribly to pull it together in a reasonable ammount of time ?? what does that even mean? what is reasonable to a person with a roof and clothes and food is not as reasonable when you are struggeling to remember who you are or were and want to be.
I'll be homeless in April.
I have not been employable for a long time now. I have an 8 inch tear in my abdominal muscle and my intestine is folded and pushing through that tear. It's proper name is Ventral Hernia I have 2.
I have no way to get it repaired.
It has been a ten year fight and I am beaten.
So I chose to focus on the fact my brain still works I have good ideas and I am willing to talk about them .
I will make this happen somehow.
I will not stop trying.
I refuse the assessment of my case managers that I am a crazy fool and a dreamer with unrealistic goals that can never happen.
Brick by brick my citizens Brick by brick....
So click the button
$1.00 donation and pass this on to someone
yep that is all I'm asking.
Why so little?
Because when I was a kid 40 yrs ago ( I'm 50) we kids were allowed to collect dimes for Jerry's kids door to door. Guess what happened ?! More people helped because it was only a dime and many helped with more than the dime. the best part was when even a little kid like me felt good about helping because we could put in our 50 cent allowance and so could all our friends. You want kids to feel a part of something bigger than themselves ? or their play stations ? Let them give a dollar and collect a dollar to send to a charity of their choosing. You feel a whole lot better about the world you live in when you feel like you can help.
Brick by brick ...dollar by dollar ...we can make a difference and not skip our own bills .... it's just a dollar.
think about it ...take the population of your community x's 1.00
------------ adds up quick doesn't it.
another way to help ...
can you craft? Sewing ? building projects? donate pallets or nails or paint ?
do not go broke trying this ...ok it's a big world and even a little thing like 1 box of nails or 1 gallon of paint will help got any good pallets ...broken will probably be ok at some point too...better to recycle than have them end up in landfill ... cinder bricks or a trailor or even an old aluminum row boat we can make a micro house out of the boat ...if it is something you would like to try doing i can direct you to a site to show you how ...
Please help me help people
Please everyone needs someone that will believe in their idea ...please help me try.
thank you for your time
Ms Dawn Ours
I'm going to ask you to do something for me.
I've obviously never done anything like this before so please bare with me.
I have a project that I need help with.
I've been injured and I've been homeless. I've also raised a wonderful daughter and worked many different kinds of jobs. I'm not one to turn my nose up and say I can't do that job it's benieth me. Is it an honest paycheck ? Then I'm sure i can learn to do it . Due to my current health issue I'm on my way to homeless and I am frusterated by the lack of cooperation, the lack of belief and overall the lack in listening skills with in the programs that are supposed to help.
I want ...no that's not accurate, I need to fund my own ideas. I know they can work and I know that if I do not find a way to try no one else will help me.
I am a person, I am intelligent and I have abilities that are not being used.
I am angry, I am sad I am in pain. I have to do something. You only fail when you stop trying. I refuse to listen to the case managers in my life at the present , they keep saying things like "you can't" and "in a perfect world that might work but " and "there just isn't enough money for that"...They fail to see there is value in all people and everyone has a skill. Most importantly , you just never know what can be done until you ask. They also fail to remember that whatever the problem is it didn't get broke or rebuilt overnight.
Rome wasn't built in a day...Brick by brick my citizen brick by brick.
I need to start my own foundation to help where I see something can be done ...K.I.S. (Keep It Simple) ....yeah the "stupid" is implyed Insert Big Grin right here. I'm funny most days trust me.
I want to start with building tiny and micro homes that can be pushed or pulled as needed. I'd like to eventually get a piece of property as a permenant safe site for tiny homes.
I'd like to make sure that every Veteran, every mentally challenged, aged, injured, individual has a small private place to recover and then move forward from at their own pace.
You can not imagine what it is like if it hasn't happened to you.
No One has a right to make Anyone else feel small.
No One has a right to set someone up to fail.
No One has a right to Judge another period.
You can not heal your wounds when the people who are supposed to help you treat you badly.
Trust and Respect are Earned not just handed over.
If someone claimed to be on your side and there to help you then proceed to call your goals stupid or unachievable is that helpful and would you trust that person?
Imagine you have lost everything.
you are in shock, you are grieving, you will be depressed, you will have a hard time putting things in order and making sense of it especially if you are not givin time to adjust, time to access what you still have and what you can still do...none of which can be accomplished at the same rate as the person next to you.
If you also happen to have some form of socio-anxiety disorder you are further behind the 8 ball and more stressed and worried and now your scared and internalizing...now you are in big trouble because the shelter is not able to help you at all.
1st space space space there is never enough of it
it is dang hard to get right in your head when it is never quiet, never can you be alone for even a minute, you sleep on a gym mat on the floor with 54 strangers , mostly men , and your a girl with a history behind you of attacks on your person or character, you now try to learn to sleep with one eye open.
you have only 1 bag of belongings and you are not allowed to keep family photos, so the people that are supposed to help you just tramatized you further by forcing you to throw away anything you can not wear, and has no job skill purpose....OH but the men can keep their knives in a locker. No photo's of your old life and family or important memories those have to be thrown out. If you have too many clothes those have to be sorted and given away too. Rule no. 1 if it doesn't fit in one bin with the lid locked on you must throw it out.
Space Space Space
never enough of it
also there is a general belief that homeless people have no family at all.
not true.
when I was in a shelter my uncle got sick was in the hospital 45 miles away my daughter wanted to come get me so I could see him before he died. I was denighed the right to leave and still have a place to come back to. so I did not get to see him one last time and I was not allowed to attend his funeral 3 days later. In both situations I was only asking to be allowed to go for a few hours curfue was 10 pm I could have been back in time. I still was told no. How is this helpful to anyones mental health? How is this designed to gain trust or respect ? it's not ok. there is a better way many communities are doing better and WI needs to try harder.
I want to get the homeless involved in the construction of their tiny home when it is possible. helping them help themselves is appropriate. treating them like they are defective and have no purpose and should be thrown away is not appropriate.
No More Programs Designed to keep you dependant and desperate.!
and No More waiting until it's too late ....because you don't fit the paramiters of said programs....
sometimes all it takes to keep someone from losing everything is 25.00 maybe 100.00 maybe the price of a new pair of work boots or a better set of clothes or a bike or a bus pass or a break job on the car you need to get to and from your job. or a ride until you get it paid for ... little things as opposed to throw millions at programs that solve nothing and truely help no one. some one in poor health needs a safe place to heal. some one with mental health issues need space and privacy then they can get back on a schedual with their therapy.
I want to be able to help educate volunteers and participants with work shops to learn DIY projects that will help a person feel better hard to feel hopeless when you complete a project that you can keep or sell.
Why can we not be creative? Why is everything that is different seen as a waste of time or wasted effort? Why are we expecting people who are harrassed and pushed away and treated horribly to pull it together in a reasonable ammount of time ?? what does that even mean? what is reasonable to a person with a roof and clothes and food is not as reasonable when you are struggeling to remember who you are or were and want to be.
I'll be homeless in April.
I have not been employable for a long time now. I have an 8 inch tear in my abdominal muscle and my intestine is folded and pushing through that tear. It's proper name is Ventral Hernia I have 2.
I have no way to get it repaired.
It has been a ten year fight and I am beaten.
So I chose to focus on the fact my brain still works I have good ideas and I am willing to talk about them .
I will make this happen somehow.
I will not stop trying.
I refuse the assessment of my case managers that I am a crazy fool and a dreamer with unrealistic goals that can never happen.
Brick by brick my citizens Brick by brick....
So click the button
$1.00 donation and pass this on to someone
yep that is all I'm asking.
Why so little?
Because when I was a kid 40 yrs ago ( I'm 50) we kids were allowed to collect dimes for Jerry's kids door to door. Guess what happened ?! More people helped because it was only a dime and many helped with more than the dime. the best part was when even a little kid like me felt good about helping because we could put in our 50 cent allowance and so could all our friends. You want kids to feel a part of something bigger than themselves ? or their play stations ? Let them give a dollar and collect a dollar to send to a charity of their choosing. You feel a whole lot better about the world you live in when you feel like you can help.
Brick by brick ...dollar by dollar ...we can make a difference and not skip our own bills .... it's just a dollar.
think about it ...take the population of your community x's 1.00
------------ adds up quick doesn't it.
another way to help ...
can you craft? Sewing ? building projects? donate pallets or nails or paint ?
do not go broke trying this ...ok it's a big world and even a little thing like 1 box of nails or 1 gallon of paint will help got any good pallets ...broken will probably be ok at some point too...better to recycle than have them end up in landfill ... cinder bricks or a trailor or even an old aluminum row boat we can make a micro house out of the boat ...if it is something you would like to try doing i can direct you to a site to show you how ...
Please help me help people
Please everyone needs someone that will believe in their idea ...please help me try.
thank you for your time
Ms Dawn Ours
Organizer
Dawn C Ours
Organizer
Oshkosh, WI