[KHTS] Hours after the Santa Clarita Valley’s only homeless shelter closed its doors for the season, Sheriff’s Station officials conducted another river wash operation. Focusing their efforts on Canyon Country this time around, deputies began clearing out the Santa Clara River wash, starting on the...

[SCVi] – More than three dozen students from iLEAD’s founding school, the Santa Clarita Valley International Charter School, volunteered this month to prepare and serve hot meals to the homeless at the SCV Emergency Winter Shelter. The sixth- and eighth-grade learners started from scratch, too. Maddy...

Santa Clarita Valley homeless shelter officials are still in need of a few dozen volunteers for a homeless count scheduled for Jan. 29, officials said Monday. “In Santa Clarita, we need about 100 volunteers,” said Tim Davis, the executive director of Bridge To Home, last week. The count is crucial...

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is calling for 6,000 volunteers to assist with the 2015 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count, which will take place countywide over three nights from January 27 to 29. The Santa Clarita Valley count will take place the evening of Jan. 29. Volunteers should register...

Rather than making a New Year’s resolution for 2014, I selected a guiding word for the year, and the word I chose was “compassion.” The selection feels even more appropriate now. At the start of the year, I embraced my guiding word with a “14 Days of Loving-Kindness Challenge” on my blog. As...

The Bridge to Home Emergency Winter Shelter will hold an open house Sunday to raise donations of needed items for the winter season. Among the items sought are: 45 gallon trash bags, foam bowls, large and medium gloves, foam cups, paper towels, napkins, powdered coffee creamer, hot chocolate and disposable...

[KHTS] – Using a different approach, Santa Clarita Valley homeless shelter operators are attempting to solve chronic homelessness once and for all by 2016. Every two weeks, Bridge to Home officials are partnering with sheriff and city officials, scouring the riverbeds in the Santa Clarita Valley...

In a creative effort to provide socks to the homeless, Family Promise SCV will be participating in a national sock collection drive for local homeless people.  One sock two sock, red sock blue sock.  It doesn’t matter the color, we want your donation of new socks. Spearheaded by the internet sensation...

What’s it like to be homeless? Come experience one night of “homelessness” during the fifth annual Box City. Sponsored by Family Promise of the Santa Clarita Valley, a nonprofit organization serving local homeless families, Box City brings awareness to the issue of family homelessness occurring...

Local citizens, public service providers, business owners, and law enforcement have expressed concern regarding increased criminal activity in the transient encampments, located in the area near Bouquet Creek and Valencia Boulevard in Santa Clarita. The transient population in the river bed area has...