What does Jewish Homelessness look like in Greater Cleveland?

• It looks like a frightened mother and her pre-teen daughter, escaping from an abusive husband, who in addition to suffering physical abuse - now suffers from having been forbidden to apply for a work permit, learn the English language or to gain any other tool that would insure independence and the ability to support herself and her child.
• It looks like the podiatrist from Mayfield Heights who suffered the crushing simultaneous blows of divorce, debilitating depression and loss of employments.
• It looks like a holocaust survivor who is on the waiting list at an assisted living apartment but being discharged from the hospital today with no family to go to in-between.
• And, it looks like a young woman suffering from a yet undiagnosed and untreated mental illness, currently unable to maintain employment and rent payments, un-welcomed to live with family, in need of a home environment where she can achieve stability and work long-term with social service professionals association to eventually gain sustainable work and a permanent place to live.

When people are in crisis and are embraced and cared for within their own community they are more likely to succeed. We need your help to refer and support members of the Jewish community back home.