Moving to a new community as a single disabled parent was not easy for Latisha G. (not her real name). She had just relocated after a protracted and difficult divorce. She had managed to secure emergency subsidized housing and was receiving SSI.
“I was doing everything wrong,” she says. “I didn’t have a bank account, I didn’t have a plan and I didn’t really have any hope.”
“I just, kind of existed for a while, kind of a long while,” she says. “I just got up, watched TV and went back to bed.” This cycle continued, re-enforcing the hopelessness of her situation. Latisha would get a spurt of energy, look for a job for a week or so, and then fall back into the lethargy of hopelessness. Eventually, a friend she had made at the housing department pushed her to look for work. Actually, “she told me to get moving and stop feeling sorry for myself, but she used different language.”
Latisha didn’t have any work experience, and she was afraid no one would hire her because of her disability. She decided to look for volunteer opportunities to build up her resume. Fortunately, the first volunteer opportunity she found was looking for people to train to become volunteer income tax preparers at her local church.
Latisha went to the orientation, and over the next few weeks, consumed every piece of asset building information she could get her hands on—she was hooked!
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