Next Move Homeless Services – Sacramento, California
Next Move provides temporary and permanent housing for families and individuals. They also provide workshops to help with housing relocation assistance, employment skills, as well as health and mental health care. They also provide guidance in applying for community support services.
Antenika and Jukari
I was in a house for 18 months, paid my rent and everything and then my landlord decided to sell every single one of their properties. So,that’s how I became homeless. I wasn’t able to find a place after that...and I’ve been house-hopping ever since.
Then the beginning of this year I started sleeping in my car with my babies. I slept in the car from January to March. A friend of mine told me about the Next Move program.I see it as a second chance. I don’t know where I would be right now...I was really starting to fall apart.
David, Belting, Tyler, and Michael
I never thought about why people are homeless until it started to happen to us. Six years ago David got laid off. He was making really good money. Our finances kept dropping and dropping. He would find side work and odd jobs and stay busy as a handyman, but we have five sons. These are just two of them, the other three are with my daughter right now because she is right by their school. We just recently became homeless and right before we were homeless our car broke down.
Next Move, I have to tell you I will volunteer here the rest of my life. We’ve just been here two weeks. We had nothing when we got here, we had the truck and the few possessions that are in it. As of today, I start work later in the week at the health care center down the road and David starts doing contracting work with a contractor here in the area. It’s looking up, it’s looking up. Sometimes you just need a little bit of help.