A path to self-reliance for single young mothers

Darlene Bakke is the Executive Director of Borromeo Housing (BHI) in Arlington, VA.  BHI’s mission is to help homeless young mothers become self-reliant in the community through a unique and proven approach focused on education, transitional housing, and child development. Since its inception in 1998, BHI has helped nearly 1,000 young women and their babies, with over 90% of the program’s graduates living independently.

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A success story.

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Serving and encouraging job seekers

John Brown is a West Point graduate who served 22 years in the US Army, retiring at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 2012, who has been serving as a volunteer with Career Confidence for the past three years.  Career Confidence sponsors free seminars every Saturday where industry experts help job seekers become the most marketable candidates they can be.  Previously known as Beltway Job Search Partners, the organization has been staffed completely by volunteers for its 6+ year history and has helped thousands of people.

Quick advice.

An example of the right perspective.

I'm looking for a job, not a date.

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Food fight for starving children

Bryan Jones is the Associate Director of the NorthStar Church Network, a collection of 180 Northern Virginia church congregations representing a wide variety of ethnic, language, and cultural groups.  Kirstie Sherman is a Development Advisor with Feed My Starving Children.  Their two organizations joined forces recently at the Dulles Expo Center where thousands of volunteers packed over 5 million meals in three days for starving children overseas.  Volunteers also dropped off over 6,700 pounds of food for the local Capital Area Food bank at the event, which was dubbed the 2016 Food Fight.  We interviewed Bryan and Kirstie just two days before the food packing event kicked off. 

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A favorite story.

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A compelling story of homelessness and addiction

Milton Brown is a longtime DC resident who battled a heroin addiction for 37 years.  In the same year he overcame his addiction, he became homeless and remained so for four years.  Milton never knew his father, and his mother abandoned him and his brother when he was 9 years old.  He’s the father of two sons – one of whom was murdered over 20 years ago on the streets of Washington DC.  Since emerging from homelessness in 2012, Milton has committed himself to raising awareness of the plight of the homeless and addicted, and to sharing the source of power that helped him emerge from a life of anguish.

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90 second call to action.

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For more information:  http://www.littlelights.org/,  http://some.org/

Milton's TEDx Georgetown talk:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQFP5cLQDlo