WFHB FireHouse Broadcasting

Local voices reach a national audience as WFHB goes live from an overnight homeless shelter to hear from social service advocates and people who have experienced homelessness. Our topic is family homelessness, specifically the lack of family shelter in our own community. Hear the tragic story of a family that feigned domestic abuse just so that the mother and children could find shelter...while the father faced criminal charges. Guests include Rev. Jack Skiles, site director for the Interfaith Winter Shelter; Joel Rekas, director of Shalom Community Center; Bobbi Summers, director of Martha's House; Bill Ferry, a local outreach caseworker for the homeless with Centerstone through the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program; and Dorothy Axsom, a mother who almost lost her children in the throes of extreme poverty. Hosted by Darryl Neher and broadcast live all across the country on February 24, 2010 as part of the National Homelessness Marathon.