Redding Homeless Blog

  PLEASE HELP! This Christmas, more than ever, are homeless suffering from freezing cold and raids from Redding California Police. Moved from place to place, THEY NEED YOUR HELP! Share this Blog post EVERYWHERE! Plz RT - Millions Given To #Redding and #Shasta #County #California For #Homeless Crisis By @GavinNewsom Where Did It Go? Furious At Multitude of Homeless Sleeping EVERYWHERE? Contact Govenor Gavin Newsom Phone: (916) 445-2841 Fax: (916) 558-3160 Emails https://t.co/mf9Foj5TAA pic.twitter.com/GWxLAZ3F5N — Redding Homeless (@ReddingHomeless) January 11, 2023   Under Cypress Street Bridge on the west side is a large homeless camp. It is one of the few places left for homeless to take refuge from the rain and wind and it is growing daily! PLEASE consider a drop off donation of tarps, tents, blankets and sleeping bags if you can. Jackets, gloves and warm socks as well. For safety flashlights, batteries, lanterns. And of course, hot drinks and food would be ...

  Walking in their shoes, to be crushed by a garbage truck sleeping in a downtown alley or a Semi truck sleeping in your tent , one cannot think of many more gruesome ways to die. Of course, many are slowly dying inside as they waist away homeless on Redding California's cruel streets, a palpable indifference from that Redding City Council, and Shasta County Supervisors who should care, yet for years have turned their collective backs in cold indifference. " Lori was homeless but Casey said it was very recent as she always had a job and apartment. However, there came a point where utilities became too much, so Lori decided to camp in the tent. " Since the City of Redding continues to allow homeless to camp within 2 feet from road up and down State St & Favretto Ave next to a dark Semi Truck trailer transfer lot, I propose at least some modicum of safety by simply placing bright safety cones and safety barriers at strategic spots on these horrible da...

  Shasta County Breslauer Way Needle Exchange Behind WinCo Zombie Drug Flesh Eating Tranq Fentanyl Mixed With Heroin Hits Redding I must admit, at almost two decades of homeless advocacy, I am absolutely stunned as a past outside on-site Securitas security guard at the vicious circle of poverty pimps in my opinion that make up the Shasta County public health branch needle exchange and welfare office. Addicts with festering sores, Stapf infections and angry red injection sites come from all over the neighborhood as well as homeless from surrounding bush camps to exchange dirty Meth, Fentanyl and Heroin syringes a stone's throw from Sheriff Michael Johnsons Breslauer way offices! You share the same parking lot! Shasta County Sheriff Michael Johnson I sat outside as a guard and witnessed many homeless from the area come to use what I consider to be a program that makes Shasta County officials guilty of aiding and abetting drug addiction and the dealers that provide it. You see after ...

  Shasta County Health and Human Services  I worked as a security guard at 1220 Sacramento Street in the downtown Redding Shasta County welfare office. I had a problem with who I should turn in my incident reports into as in my opinion a rather troubled client named "Donny," (not real name) had been swinging a cane dangerously close to my security guard partner.  Several days later this individual Donny was outside yelling and flipping the bird at somebody out in the parking lot. I later saw the fellow Donny was fighting with and individual said Donny "has raped several women in Redding." Next day this same individual was in office when Donny came in and started yelling "this guy is accusing me of rape" which supervisor "Sammy Jo" did an incident report. I told supervisor Athena about the Donny incidents and have been told by "Supervisor Athena" with Supervisor Fawn in Fawns office that "I was to quit investigating Donny" and ...

Demonstration Micro Shelter It was my absolute pleasure to attend Saint James Lutheran's open house, showcasing the plans for a tiny homeless shelter community.  On the property behind their church, featured was one of the tiny homes already built that will accommodate 2 homeless individuals should the church board vote to go forward with this beautiful, long overdue, positive first step in alleviating homelessness in the city of Redding and Shasta County. Saint James Lutheran has boldly and bravely accepted the challenge to be one of the first to demonstrate the Love of Jesus Christ and provide for the needs of the "least of the brethren." Other churches and the City of Redding are soon to follow, with hopes of building other micro shelter communities in and around Redding. With layers of supervision and accountability, it will certainly be a situation of a hand up, and not a handout. Providing homeless with the "first step of a ladder" to climbing out of the ...

  Preach the Gospel at all times and if necessary, use words You would be hard pressed to find a better example of this saying witnessing the Journey church in action going about our community Showing, through action, the Love of Jesus Christ giving to the homeless the means to survive spiritually and physically on our streets. Every third Saturday you can find their team compassionately giving out food, water, clothing, even dog food to those who have so very little. Sixty food boxes, as well as forty sack lunches were given out on one Saturday alone. And of course prayer was offered to those who spiritually feel that they need it for whatever reason. They also offer food at their Church to those in poverty and meet their hunger needs. It was an absolute pleasure to go out with them into the homeless community and meet them where they are. The Team goes to the Cypress Street bridge, Library, and Masonic lodge area every third Saturday and I can tell you the homeless are very appre...

  With Christmas just days gone by, you would thing Redding and Shasta County Supervisors would have more compassion for the homeless in our community. The Good News Rescue Mission, 3100 South Market Street, the only nighttime shelter we have is reportedly kicking out homeless seeking shelter for the most nominal of offenses. Several can be seen sleeping on the sidewalk in front of the mission. Redding Homeless - Good News Rescue Mission Those with mental issues, are forced to sleep outside, even though the temperatures have been below freezing for several days now, including homeless children. Dozens of homeless are forced to seek shelter under the roof of a very compassionate local business but really is that fair to them?  A young little girl in a pink jacket is living in a freezing boulder field under Cypress Street with dozens of other homeless sufferings, yet even though the City of Redding has declared a Homeless Shelter Crisis, and received a million dollars, the refus...