WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS IT to feed, clothe, and help the #homeless in our region? WHAT causes homelessness? Is helping the homeless enabling or doing something good? Is it something that even CAN be solved?
While I often feel conflicted about this issue, our Panelists on Today's podcast, provide some great insights and personal stories and experiences! Join the conversation and drop your thoughts and comments in the feed!
TODAY on the Youngstown Click Be Connected podcast, we have JereB, local experienced musician/producer. He is premiering a recently produced song that is NOW AVAILABLE for download with any donation, with 80% of all proceeds going straight to help the homeless and struggling in our region! Also, special thanks to him for connecting everyone!
Vocalist Lisa McDavid, a Youngstown native who now resides in Fort Wayne, IN wrote the song and sings lead vocals on it. She shares about the mysterious homeless man who inspired the song and thereby this whole project and then disappeared. She regularly works with the homeless in her city as well and would love for this song to spread out to do the same kind of fundraising in other cities across America!
We have Lynn Wyant, who has been a part of the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley for the past 20 years! She has seen both success stories and heartbreaking patterns in the work that she does! She shares what part the Mission has in helping the struggling men, women, and families in our region!
FREE meals (over 124,000 served in 2024), 58,000 overnight stays, help with job skills, facilitating mental and spiritual growth/healing, and teaching life skills are all a part of the amazing work that both staff and volunteers do daily at our local mission on the city's north side.
Adding to the panel with some powerful stories from the trenches of homeless camps and hidden pockets is Patty Summers, founder of Youngstown Blue Coats. She has reached freezing people right here in Youngstown in the knick of time with warmth and medical treatment and regularly goes out to reach people where they are with coats, sleeping bags, socks, and more! The Blue Coats work with other local organizations to maximize their reach and impact, driving a big blue bus like a vehicle of hope.
Rounding out the panel is Kyle Costal, musician and rapper, who adds a verse to this inspiring song. He writes his own music as well and has traveled the nation singing to anyone who listens, while connecting with some of the most unexpected people in unexpected places! He also jumped in to run the video board and for that, I can't thank him enough!!
His music name is "Hegemon", so make sure to check him out to support local music!
TO SUPPORT THE WORK:
Donate & Download the BRAND NEW song from one or both of these websites! Whichever one you download it from, will immediately get 80% of what you donate!
Youngstown Blue Coats: www.ytownbluecoats.org
Rescue Mission: www.rescuemission
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