People Assisting the Homeless

At first, things looked promising. After first being told that PATH doesnt help families «at all», PATH doubled back and reached out to our family, offering their assistance with housing here in Los Angeles.
They had us close our welfare account in San Diego, and afterward said it was a mistake. Our families lifeline was cut off until we could get back in the system. PATH put us in a hotel for two weeks in Santa Monica, during which time we were responsible for completing the transfer of our case to Los angeles, as well as establishing medical care here on our own, and getting TB shots for housing.
Family Solutions Center took our information and copied our vital documents. They were going to be checking my housing eligibility during that time.
During this time, we could not reach our path representatives for anything… not even a haircut. That’s not a joke.
After a full day of my «outreach» workers pressing me to get CASH benefits… and suggesting I lie on my welfare application to get MORE money, THEN dropping my homeless family of 4 back off to sleep outside in a box (you can’t make this up) … it dawned on me.
Even more alarming, when I reported the incident to the LAPD, Forest Rangers, AND Child Protective Services, NONE of them had ever even HEARD of PATH. no wonder their activities have gone on so long without consequence.
PATH here in Los Angeles is one part of a whole system of homeless corruption and exploitation here in Los Angeles. My family is back on the street… one of many victims of homelessness and hopelessness.
When my husband and I separated from the stress, they even turned him away from the Madison location as a single person. They didn’t want to help him if I wasn’t around, seeing as to how the case was in my name. They referred him to another shelter hours away, and when my husband called, the referred shelter had NO availability.
THEY ARE HIDING SOMETHING AT PATH.
Stop the liars and the theives… Jenny, Reggie, Lynetta and Keenan Carter at PATH in Los Angeles are guilty of intimidation, manipulation and fraud. Organizations like PATH and its employees have decided to treat all homeless like mindless, vulnerable invalids.
They brought us to their office and made me call my welfare worker for 5 hours while Jenny sat on her cell phone on facebook, insisting MY WELFARE WORKER wasn’t doing enough. Ha!
I realized while making calls that the phone I was using was overloaded with voice messages, including my own, that had never been checked by anyone at the office… Every time we’ve called we’ve been transferred to voicemail… unless the goal for the day was collecting money, in which case, they’re stuck to you like flies on crap.
No one is in these offices. The desks and classrooms are empty and inavtive. There are tent camps all around the outside of PATH.
The «supervisor», a heavy set lady sitting in a closed office, wears an uncovered can of mace around her neck, ready to use. How are you supposed to feel safe and welcome if the SUPERVISOR is itching to blast you?
You’re messing with the wrong people.
You’ve made the biggest mistake of your lives.

Never has serving the community been so much fun. I do this once a month when possible. A good friend Joan M. «you can hit me up for contact info if you want to volunteer.» runs the once a month dinner service here.
You don’t need to have any skills other than a willing heart and a few hours to give up. Not only will you make some wonderful friends you’ll feel great about helping a worthy cause.
Cheers.

Came one night to help cook dinner with a friend of a friend.
Wish I could have spent more time, but if you have a friend who needs help with rehabilitation, getting back into the working world, and lacks a home, this is the place to send them.
My understanding is that it takes awhile (months) to get into the place, but it is well-​worth the wait and effort.
Please open one in Long Beach!!! The amount of good you could do here is unbelievable!
Thanks for allowing me to help your worthy cause.

This is a great place to volunteer. I helped prepare the Saturday evening dinner. It’s a great group that volunteers there! And the meals are fantastically planned! They will take all the help they can get! Definitely help out!

Anytime you volunteer to do something good. you have to give it 5 Stars!!!
PATH is there to help the homeless and those in need… providing beds and shelter and food for them.
I don’t know what to say except that I’ve come here to help a few times in the kitchen and the people we’ve cooked for are always thankful for what you do for them…
If you ever have the chance to volunteer… you may want to consider helping out here look at their website for how you can help!

This past weekend I had the pleasure to feed some people in our midst that have fallen on hard times. PATH provides a place for those who have nowhere to go for 6 months. They are housed at this facility while they look for work and get their lives back on track. What PATH does is great and the people that live here are all so grateful.
In the past we have raised funds to support PATH and one other time I was on the roster to prepare food in one of the two shifts on the weekend. It was good but I didn’t see how the people reacted to our presence.
The facility was clean and allowed our group full access to the kitchen. Ed C & Eric L our fearless leader prepared the menu that would feed about 150 guests at the facility.
We were each assigned to various tasks to prep the raw goods in the first shift. After the first shift was done preparing the goods. the second shift rotated in and the first out except for me a couple of others. I cooked the fried rice and proud of it too. My helper Alda A scooped in all the additional ingredients i.e. onions, green onions, peas and carats and scrambled eggs.
The menu consisted of Fried rice, Korean inspired fried chicken, salad, potato salad and Mochi cake. All this for $ 2. per head. Great going Eric L and Ed C for planning and cost cutting great meal for PATH and it’s housemates.