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Nowhere To Go
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WARNING: The audio clips and stories contained in these resources may cause emotional pain to those who are struggling with the issues discussed.
Welcome to The HopeLine Virtual Coach for the issue of having nowhere to go. Below you will find stories, information, and resources dealing with the issue. Before you get started with the Virtual Coach, please listen to some DMLive callers talk to Dawson about their struggles with having nowhere to go. To hear the calls, please
click here for call #1, or click here for call #2.
John's Story
Seven years ago John was a happy fifth grader. He was a good student, had lots of friends, and enjoyed living with his parents. Late that year, however, his life took an unexpected and cruel turn. John’s dad died in an accident at work. It took John at least two years to work through the grief and the shock of losing his dad. Fortunately for John, although he still really misses his dad a lot he dealt with the loss pretty well. Unfortunately for John, his mom did not. Soon after his dad’s death, John’s mom began turning to alcohol and drugs to deal with the pain and the loss. She lost her job. She and John moved in with John’s grandparents for awhile and his mom began dating. Somehow, every man she dated was a loser. She finally settled with a man named Chuck. Chuck held a job and could be okay at times, but he also had a bad anger problem. He would get drunk and bean John’s mom and sometimes he hit John as well. The older John got the worse the abuse became. Finally, in the ninth grade John moved out of the house and back with his grandparents. He went over two years and did not see his mom until recently when his grandmother died. His grandfather died shortly after. Not only is John overcome with sadness and grief, but he finds himself with a very real problem: he has nowhere to go. John’s mom and Chuck still fight all of the time. They barely support themselves and they do not want the responsibility of having John around. More importantly, John does not want to go back there. John feels really alone now and does not know what to do. He has an after-school job and is trying hard to complete his senior year of high school. Each day John feels the pressure of not knowing where he will be long term. He jumps around from one friend’s house to another and sometimes sleeps in his car. The truth is that John is scared out of his mind.
Your Story
They say that “you can always go home”, but what if you don’t have a home. John found himself with no place to go. The things that happened in John’s life were no fault of his own. Life happened. And it left John with no place to go. Are you feeling like you have no place to go? Are you homeless or about to me homeless? Perhaps you can relate to what John was facing. Worse yet, your situation may be twice as bad as John’s. If so, you are probably feeling very alone, afraid, anxious, and maybe even abandoned and forgotten. Whatever has happened to bring you to this point in your life you should know that hope exists and help is available.
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