This week I learned a lot more about different types of services around the inland empire and LA county. Family services, women’s shelters, childcare, and what they offer in programs, their history, the language they use. I also learned more about how to explain my own experiences and to look out for the smaller things. I want to learn how individuals keep themselves motivated through the programs that are offered. I not only learned from the presentations, but from the readings about looking at homelessness from a different perspective. At a workshop I was in, we talked about a celebrity who spent a time on Skid Row filming a documentary showing the life there and how different that was compared to those in a different area, the woman who mentioned it also talked about making her own YouTube channel about being homeless and surviving. It was one of the moments where I realized the different situations people who were homeless were in, and how much they simply wanted to be heard. Then the readings made me question how much truth needed to be taught before the public really focused on the problems that contributed to becoming homeless. How much exposure on homelessness is necessary before the problem becomes dire, and is inescapably in need of a reaction from government. I think the woman was on track when she stress the need to inform the public that not all homeless are on drugs and lazy. It got me to thinking about a few questions, like: When does media really acknowledge homelessness? Without the help of the required readings of this course on different situations of homelessness, would I know or realize what is happening in the community? For instance, the employees at Disneyland. Why have activist movements to end homelessness not been a success? Why haven’t the means we are taking now not worked as efficiently?