Homeless In San Diego

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast. Joining us today is Kim Nye, Senior Services Case Manager. Kim works with seniors in need at Interfaith by providing them with resources to live healthy, safe and thriving lives. She shares, “it’s surprising how many seniors we have struggling with homelessness, the amount of income they have, and available affordable or low-income housing.”  

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast. Joining us today is Kenan Pala. Kenan is the CEO and founder of Kids4Community. His primary goal was to encourage other children his age and younger to get involved with their communities. Now, he’s on his way to earn his undergraduate degree and we had a chance to catch up with the young superstar

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast. Joining us today is Mauro Alvarez. Mauro is a local artist and now the visionary behind the largest mural in Escondido titled "Journey to Healing." This mural will live on as a symbol of recovery for all those who will begin transforming their lives at the Abraham and Lillian Turk Recuperative Care Center, for years to come.

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast. Joining us today is Brenda Mitchell. Brenda redefines the words strength and community leader.  She “can’t sit back feeling sorry for herself, but instead, is hearing a call to action” with the hopes that no one feels her heartbreak. Listen and learn more about Brenda’s beloved son, Andrew, and her insights supporting our loved ones and neighbors experiencing homelessness, mental health and addiction. In partnership with Friends of La Posada, The Andrew Salazar Memorial Golf Tournament on July 16th will raise funds supporting our organizational efforts in ending homelessness. For more information visit www.homelessinsandiego.org 

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast Season Two: “Homebound.” Joining us today is Richard. Richard lived on the streets for 25 long years. Now, Richard’s been housed for over 10 years. He enjoys cooking at home and working on his art. Even more incredibly, he opens his home to other people experiencing homelessness.

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast Season Two: “Homebound.” Joining us today is Phyllis and Peggy Peattie. Phyllis is a Dental Hygienist with lived-experience in San Diego for a decade. Peggy is an independent photojournalist, documenting the stories of homeless populations and teaching visual journalism at SDSU and UCSD. Get ready for an amazing conversation!

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast Season Two: “Homebound.” Joining us today is Mark Kaleimamahu and John Brady. Mark is a choir member who incredibly overcame homelessness. John is the Director of Advocacy for Voices of our City with lived-experience himself.

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast Season Two: “Homebound.” Joining us today is Jennifer Kacizak. Jennifer is a Cancer survivor, Homelessness survivor, and all-around inspiration. Could you imagine facing both during COVID-19?

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast — Season Two: “Homebound.” Anne Miskey is the CEO of the Union Station Homeless Services in San Gabriel. Last year, they helped over 1,100 people out of homelessness and continue to do a lot of the same work we do in San Diego.

Thank you for tuning in to our second season: Homebound – where we will look at four key parts of Homelessness: Housing, Recovery, Poverty, and Mental Health. Today we’ll be focusing on Mental Health. Here joining us today is Michael Joseph. Michael is a Homelessness Advisor for Simtech Solutions with lived experience and a quintessential Interfaith success story.

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast — Season Two: “Homebound.” Joining us today is Kimberly. Kimberly was housed through Interfaith’s  Rapid Rehousing Program when she found herself experiencing homelessness after being wrongfully convicted of a crime. Through her strength and resilience, she quickly went from living in her car to having a place to call her own.

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast — Season Two: “Homebound.” Interfaith Community Services CEO Greg Anglea along with our frontline staff speak about our COVID-19 response efforts. This virtual behind-the-scenes tour of Interfaith’s program leaders at multiple Interfaith locations.

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast — Season Two: “Homebound.” Here to talk about his expertise on homelessness is Iain de Jong. Iain is the President and CEO of ORGCODE and the author of “The Book on Ending Homelessness.”

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast — Season Two: “Homebound.” In this episode, we will be talking to Michael Tatum. Michael is a formerly homeless individual and now a resident of the Stella Housing Development.

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast — Season Two: “Homebound.” In this special episode, Interfaith Case Manager, Abigail Celestino, and Program Manager of Emergency Services, Eren Hernandez, join Greg Anglea to talk about Interfaith’s response to COVID-19. We see the stories on the news, but what is happening on the frontlines? Tune-in and find out!

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast — Season Two: “Homebound.” This season we are diving into four topics: Housing, Recovery, Poverty, and Mental Health. Here to talk about their expertise with Housing is Anthony White. Anthony is a veteran who experienced homelessness after serving our country. Now, Anthony serves a different purpose. With a new found passion in Homeless Advocacy at the local and state level, he is now a member of the San Diego Homeless-Experienced Advocacy and Leadership (HEAL) Network.

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast — Season Two: “Homebound.” This season we are diving into four topics: Housing, Recovery, Poverty, and Mental Health. Here to talk about their expertise with Poverty is Omar Passons and Janey Rountree. Omar is the Director of Integrative Services for the County of San Diego and Janey is the founding Executive Director of the California Policy Lab at UCLA. Together, they are implementing research-based solutions to address poverty at the ground level. Janey’s research is developing groundbreaking algorithms to determine whether someone will become homeless. This is one of the most important questions about prevention: Can homelessness be predicted?

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast — Season Two: “Homebound.” This season we will cover: Housing, Recovery, Poverty, and Mental Health. Here to talk about their expertise with (tiny) Housing is Ellen Stone and Renee McLaughlin. Ellen is the Founder and Managing Director of Tiny Home Central Consulting and Renee is the CEO of, the much anticipated, TinyFest! Ellen and Renee partnered with Interfaith Community Services to bring you a showcase of "Tiny Homes" - an alternative, compact, and efficient way of living. Much can be said about these tiny homes, but can they be a big solution for Housing? Listen and find out!

Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to the Homeless in San Diego Podcast — Season Two: “Homebound.” This season we will cover: Housing, Recovery, Poverty, and Mental Health. Here to talk about their expertise with Housing is Dana Derderian-Ibarra and Heather Pollock-Averick. Dana is Interfaith’s Director of Quality Assurance and Compliance and Heather is Affirmed Housing’s Director of Supportive Housing Services. Together, Dana and Heather worked towards the partnership between Interfaith and Affirmed Housing’s Stella Housing Development in Mission Valley. Now, there are 62 formerly homeless individuals with a roof over their head and a helping hand from Interfaith’s Case Managers.

Welcome to Homeless in San Diego! Host Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, welcomes you to Season Two: “Homebound.” This season we will cover: Housing, Recovery, Poverty, and Mental Health. All in an Effort to Give People a Pathway Home. Here to talk about his experience with Housing is Gregory Moore. Greg is a formerly homeless client, son of a peanut farmer, and the very first success story from our “SOAR” program. Joining him to give us some perspective on SOAR is, Kate Jones, Interfaith SOAR Case Manager.