Mobile Mother Credits Dumas Wesley Program for Fresh Start, New Home
Mobile native Crystal Roberts credits the Dumas Wesley Sybil H. Smith Family Village transitional housing program with turning her life around and helping her buy a new home.
Survivor-Led Solutions Opens First Physical Advocacy Center in Pensacola
Survivor-Led Solutions has opened its first physical advocacy center in Pensacola, offering support to survivors of trafficking, sexual exploitation and domestic violence and launching a new certification program.
Mobile Council to Weigh $200,000 Federal Grant to Expand Homeless Outreach Team
Mobile's city council will vote on pursuing a $200,000 federal microgrant to expand the Homeless Outreach Team pairing police with behavioral health specialists.
Baldwin County Fires Rental Assistance Contractor Amid Slow Payouts, Shifts Aid to Local Nonprofits
Baldwin County has cut Hagerty Consulting from its federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program after just 83 of more than 1,400 applicants received help, handing the work instead to a coalition…
Thousands of Mobile, Baldwin County Students Missing Updated Vaccine Records
More than 8,000 students across Mobile and Baldwin county schools lack current immunization records, according to local health department data.
A Bed for the Night: How Mobile and Baldwin Counties Sheltered Their Homeless
A 2013 count found 493 people homeless on any given night in Mobile and Baldwin counties. This is a look at the network of shelters and day centers that stood…
Mobile County DHR Director Tells Rotarians Poverty and Illiteracy Travel Together
Rose Johnson, director of the Mobile County Department of Human Resources, addressed the Sunrise Rotary Club on poverty and what she called its co-conspirator, illiteracy.