Ten quick takeaways from our time at a Leadership Academy hosted by Mobile Loaves and Fishes at Community First! Village last month. This was a three-day leadership development experience focused on helping us understand and harness the power of our unique leadership style…

Addiction is a chronic brain disease where one is physically and psychologically dependent on drugs, alcohol or a behavior. Despite the stereotype that homeless people are addicts, addiction is a disease that can effect anyone.

The injustice is this: people with felonies who have the money can pay an attorney to expunge their felony. People with felonies without means, however, cannot pay an attorney to expunge their felony. Their life cannot return to normal…

It can be hard not to ask this question when we come across people sitting on sidewalks and under highways in the middle of the day. Along with the false stereotype that homeless people are lazy, this stereotype that homeless people should just get a job to solve their homelessness is incorrect.