Meet Brenda. Brenda faces life’s challenges with determined optimism, and her effervescent smile is inspiring. The child of a service member, she also married into the military. She has lived all over the country, raising a daughter along the way. She worked for years as a nurse, but her physical disabilities prevent her from working […]
The Palm Tree Apartments Annual Shopping Event on Tuesday, October 23 allows residents to “shop” for home and holiday decor − using coupons they’ve earned all year. You can help by donating new or gently-used home and holiday decor items! Contact: Cindy Wright, Director of Housing at 817-823-3766 or cwright@drc-solutions.org. Deadline for donations: Monday, October 22, […]
Wanda’s story We are thankful for many things as this year’s holiday season approaches. Home, health, and the love of family are at the top of many gratitude lists. Wanda treasures these gifts too, but for her, the greatest blessing is hope, a hope reborn almost two years ago after heartbreaking losses and six terrifying […]
Legal identification opened doors to more than housing for Bobby, a DRC client once stranded on the streets. In a marathon, three-year hunt for birth records that ended in the Oklahoma governor’s office, DRC Critical Documents Specialist Denise Yeager gave Bobby an identity, a heritage and a family he had never known. It might […]
What thoughts fill your mind at the holidays? If your home is like ours are, your thoughts are occupied with plans for celebration. But for those facing a financial crisis, as Doris and Gary did last year, the holidays can be a time of indescribable fear. While you and I searched stores for gifts to […]
POSTSCRIPT, 2017: Gerald died in the loving care of hospice this spring, surrounded by friends who stood by him, homeless and housed. He was laid to rest at historic Oakwood Cemetery through the generosity of a DRC donor. Nearly three years after he was mistakenly declared dead, an error that cost him home and income, your […]
Leonard was shaking when he arrived at the DRC’s Transfer Center offices. He was weak from hunger and exhaustion, it’s true, but his trembling hands were signs of a more serious challenge. Leonard lives with Parkinson’s Disease, and though he had walked less than a mile from one of the city’s homeless shelters, each of […]
A foot injury nearly cost Brian his life. He was walking to the bus stop after a day’s work and fell, cutting his foot. No big deal, right? An injury like that would be a minor matter for you and me, but because Brian was homeless, it became a life-threatening emergency. Luckily he survived, thanks to your […]
Sarah* fled a violent relationship, couch surfing or sleeping in her car until there was nowhere to turn but local homeless shelters. In Fort Worth’s East Lancaster Avenue homeless services corridor, Sarah faced something almost as frightening as the abuse she’d fled: the prospect of sleeping in a barrack-style shelter with hundreds of strangers. Mornings would be worse. […]
