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Even With Help From Nonprofits, There's No Easy Solution When You're Pregnant and Homeless [KUT.org]

 

If you're a regular listener to the Standard, you may remember Courtney Meeks. She's homeless and pregnant. When we met her in January, Meeks was standing at the corner of a busy intersection in Austin asking drivers for money. Back then, she thought she was really close to giving birth.

Some of her other uncertainties were also part of the story we aired. Listeners responded in force. Many of you wrote saying Ms. Meeks should get in touch with local nonprofits and ask for help. Joy Diaz picks up the story from the perspective of those nonprofits.

Just a few months ago, I witnessed the birth of a nonprofit. The group led by Jane Leifeste met at a loud room in a church in downtown Austin looking for ways to help women who are homeless and pregnant.

"In order for this committee to work at all – as you know – the political arena around pregnancy is pretty loaded," Leifeste says. "It's really a thorny subject. So, we as a committee will have to kind of float above it."



[For more of this story, written by Joy Diaz, go to http://kut.org/post/even-help-...regnant-and-homeless]

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