HOME offers shelter for men trying to change

...He’d been at a shelter that had a limit on how long residents may stay, as do some in this area.“They said this is the one place I didn’t have to come up with a security deposit,” he said.All men who are able to work are expected to look for it, though some are too old to do physical labor.“We can’t afford to take a lot of the disabled if they can’t pay,” Rogers said.HOME is prepared to house 53 men, and currently shelters about 45.

They’ve taken in a teen on the condition that he finish his high school diploma, and supported a man in his 60s while he waited two years to be eligible to collect Social Security.“His only alternative was the woods,” Rogers said.The residents are expected to pay $12 per day.

The agency doesn’t collect all of that, since some just can’t afford that much.

As long as they’re trying, though, they can stay.

“If he’s sleeping in and not trying, we don’t have any problem kicking him out,” Reese said.All residents are subject to random drug and alcohol tests.

Frequency is handled on a case-by-case basis.

“Our philosophy is we have to take everyone in.

It’s the only way we can figure out who shouldn’t be there,” Rogers said.And there are some who end up opting for homelessness.“We’ve had a few who, we take them here and they say they like it better out there,”...

Four arrested in robbery of man with cerebral palsy

... Four arrested in robbery of man with Police tracked down two men and two teens in the 5400 block of Olivewood Avenue in Riverside on Tuesday afternoon.

Officers also found stolen property taken from the victim's apartment.

Police suspect one of the robbers, Seyyed Hadi Mirlohi, 20, initially met the victim, Steven Kile, 29, through an Internet social networking site, and they later met in person before the robbery.

Officials say that's what led them to the suspect's identity, which then led them to the other three suspected robbers, Richard Lance McGee, 21, and two boys, ages 14 and 16.

Police declined to reveal the name of the Internet site or the nature of Kile's interaction with Mirlohi.

Police arrested them on suspicion of robbery.

While detectives chased leads in the case Tuesday, police began receiving an outpouring of support from people around Southern California and as far away as Pennsylvania who heard about the attack.

A Pittsburgh man who operates a company that produces computer equipment used by the disabled offered to replace Kile's equipment, which police initially believed was stolen.

Police later discovere...

Disabled College Student Presses On

...She now sits in a wheelchair with a body that refuses to do what she wants it to do.Though Brandy can't walk, speak clearly or write with a pencil, she has managed to graduate from high school and navigate her way through her first year of college.That success comes in spite of daily obstacles, she says in her essay titled, "How to Tell a True Ignorance Story." In it she describes the slights she has encountered during her first year at college.

Her essay begins, "I wish it wasn't, but this is a real story.

Our society with all its training and college education is still uneducated concerning citizens with disabilities." Brandy communicates through her aide, Janice Walker, with a computer or with halting speech.

She lives off campus and has to carry her communication equipment with her.

"I'm always in tow of multiple bags, so when I press the handicap access button to open the door for myself it takes a minute before I can maneuver into the doorway."By then a whole line of people are walking right in front of me, barring my way as though I were invisible," she said.

"It's as if my wheelchair makes me invisible."Brandy's mother, Mary Bolin, said Laura Rich of the Campbell University staff works as a liaison between the family and school to address obstacles as they are presented."I want to believe that people are genuinely good individuals," Brandy said.

"I understand th...

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