The other day I sat down and re-read my friend Rudy Carassco‘s book, Protect & Invest. It is a book about urban and multi-ethnic outreach and he gave me a copy while I was in Pasadena a couple years ago. I am getting ready to give away about 1000 volumes from my library and this [...]
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The Devil Plays Hardball
A documentary for CBC Newsworld :: It questions whether the mentor model is the best way to get people who are living on the streets off the streets. Cameras were rolling as a well-to-do mother of four, a lawyer, an IT consultant and a film director paired up with homeless people for 10 months. The [...]
Life in Skid Row
An introduction to what it is like living on Skid Row in Los Angeles. Alongside Skid Row’s hustlers, transients, and cops are a lesser known population of children, social servants and religious workers whose daily lives play out on LA’s most dangerous city blocks. This is a five part series on YouTube telling their stories. [...]
