How Trauma And Homelessness Are Linked [keranews.org]

Alicia Doktor 3/28/194:00 AM

When Ashley Franks got pregnant with her son, her grandfather kicked her out of the house. She didn’t know where to go. So she lived out of her car throughout the pregnancy.

“Daily life [when living in the car] is trying to find a place to take a shower, make sure that your hygiene is kept up, make sure that your vehicle is running properly, because that’s all you have,” Franks says.

Years before, Franks experienced the kind of loss every parent dreads, twice: A daughter drowned, and then her son died from cancer.

[For more on this story by CHRISTOPHER CONNELLY, go to https://www.keranews.org/post/...elessness-are-linked]

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