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Articles by Greg Anglea
Op-Ed: When we stand together, families stand stronger
At Interfaith Community Services, we see the daily hardships many North County families are up against, and we meet them with compassion, understanding and a commitment to helping them move forward. Last month, at a series of food distributions held during delays to CalFresh benefits, those realities were impossible to ignore. Across Escondido, Carlsbad, and Oceanside, families waited in long lines of cars, fearful this might be their only chance to secure groceries for the week.
Balancing Dignity and Public Safety to Address Homelessness
Greg Anglea is the CEO of Interfaith Community Services. Dane White is the mayor of the city of Escondido. When it comes to addressing homelessness, it’s a common perception that respecting human dignity and upholding public safety are competing, and at times contradictory, interests. That ideological divide is perhaps why Interfaith Community Services and the city of Escondido hit a rough patch in our relationship last year.
Opinion: Trump’s flawed executive order won’t fix homelessness
President Trump’s recent executive order on homelessness is an inhumane response to one of our nation’s most urgent social challenges. Titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” the executive order falsely claims that the “overwhelming majority” of unhoused Americans are drug addicted, mentally ill and dangerous criminals. Based on this flawed and damaging premise, it prescribes imprisonment, institutionalization and forced mental health treatment as solutions.
Thankful for the families we serve
“Sleeping in the car with my children, it was really hard.” “This program is the only one of its kind that has a family shelter, that was able to take us in.” These words come from the mom and the dad of an Escondido family who turned to Interfaith Community Services when hard times and soaring costs of living led them to lose their housing and fall into homelessness. The challenges facing our community are immense.
Opinion: Let’s end family homelessness. Together we can do it.
It was a striking scene: four local elected leaders from different North County cities, political parties and perspectives, on stage together — not to debate, but to share the power of partnerships in addressing pressing community challenges. As we celebrate Thanksgiving, I am grateful for leaders and community members’ working together to help families experiencing or on the brink of homelessness.
Op-Ed: Prop 36 poses a serious threat to solving homelessness
San Diego County’s homelessness crisis remains one of our most pressing issues. It’s not due to a lack of effort or effective interventions. Last month, 1,151 people overcame homelessness in our county, many through organizations like Interfaith Community Services, which offers housing solutions and support. Yet for the 29th consecutive month, more people — 1,352 — fell into homelessness for the first time. These facts show that the lack of affordable housing is the best predictor of homelessness.
Opinion: Celebrating resilient dads and families
Anglea is CEO of Interfaith Community Services and lives in Escondido. As a father of two creative, passionate and strong-willed kiddos, I know the joys and challenges of fatherhood. No matter what we face, though, I am constantly aware of how fortunate we are to have a roof over our heads. Increasingly, however, many families, including more fathers, are desperately struggling without a stable home for their children.
Opinion: We're working to end family homelessness in San Diego. It's ambitious, but not impossible.
Anglea is CEO of Interfaith Community Services and lives in Escondido. “It’s apparent in their eyes. They appear harsh and cold when they first come, filled with heartbreaking, dreadful uncertainty. They’ve obviously been through a lot,” Jeremiah Bellomy describes the looks in the faces of homeless children when they first arrive at our new Escondido Family Homeless Shelter.
Opinion: Don’t give up. Every San Diegan can play a constructive role in addressing homelessness.
Members of a coordinated outreach event talk with unsheltered people in downtown San Diego. Anglea is CEO of Interfaith Community Services and lives in Escondido. Fitzsimons is CEO of Episcopal Community Services and lives in Del Cerro. If there were simple, reasonable steps you could take to end homelessness in your community, would you take them?
Opinion: Our father’s selflessness inspired us to dedicate our lives to community service
Anglea is CEO of Interfaith Community Services and lives in Escondido. Stubblefield is executive director at the MiraCosta College Foundation and lives in Carlsbad. Our dad’s parents both grew up in poverty during the Depression. Our granddad would go on to a career in aviation.
Opinion: We knew Steve Olson. His death at the hands of Escondido Police shows just how broken the system is.
Anglea is the CEO of Interfaith Community Services. He lives in Escondido. We at Interfaith Community Services mourn the killing of Mr. Steve Olson, the local man who was shot six times by an Escondido police officer on April 21. He was a client of Interfaith Community Services. He was also a son, a brother, an uncle and a veteran who served our country.
Opinion: Our free anti-racism training for faith communities is available now. We invite you to take it.
A worshipper kneels on the ground of a parking lot to pray following Holy Communion during the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ 89th Our Lady of Guadalupe procession and Catholic Mass at the San Gabriel Mission in San Gabriel, California, Dec.r 6, 2020. (AFP via Getty Images) By Greg AngleaCommunity voices contributor Feb. 8, 2021 12:39 PM PT Share Anglea is CEO of Interfaith Community Services. He lives in Escondido.
Lee Ann Kim: In 2020, sad thoughts about mortality turned into bonding with my mother over her favorite Korean dishes
At the beginning of the pandemic, my elderly Korean parents, who recently moved to Orange County from Chicago, quarantined with us in San Diego out of an abundance of caution. This allowed me to keep my eyes on my golf-addicted father who would have likely run away to the greens. And mom? She’s a devout Christian whose identity is closely tied to her work at her neighborhood church. Both needed a lockdown. We laughed at how the tables had turned.
Greg Anglea: A year we never want to repeat is coming to an end. Here are some positive things we have learned.
2020 has been the year of haves and have-nots. You either have gotten COVID-19 or you have not. Someone you know and love has died from COVID-19, or you have not had the misfortune to face that loss. You have lost your job amid the COVID-19 economic crash, or you have not. You have had to work in-person facing greater personal risk, or you have been able to work remotely from the safety of your home.
Greg Anglea: Let’s work toward the brighter spring to come
This Thanksgiving season I am grateful for all people of compassion who give to help our neighbors in need. People like Janet Nye, who for 10 years organized a monthly food donation drive in her Escondido neighborhood to feed the hungry.
Greg Anglea: Three ways San Diego leaders can address the pandemic and overcome the crisis of our time
Chris Gentile and Brandon Sloan of Pandemic Pizza at RoVino The Eatery in East Village. (Courtesy photo) By Greg AngleaCommunity voices contributor Nov. 4, 2020 4:39 PM Share The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the inequities of our San Diego region. In August, the San Diego Association of Governments found that 36 percent of Black and 36 percent of Hispanic San Diegans live in ZIP codes with both higher than average unemployment and COVID-19 cases, compared to just 13 percent of White San Diegans.
Commentary: Meet the frontline heroes in the fight against coronavirus, nonprofit workers
It’s 3 a.m. and Tony is in our parking lot walking laps with a homeless resident of our addiction treatment program, helping him overcome the anxiety of pandemic amidst newfound sobriety. On the other side of our campus Cheryl is staffing our Haven House homeless shelter, and is struck by just how young a girl is who knocks on our door asking for a blanket and some food. Our shelter is full, but Cheryl helps with a few items that were donated the day before.
How we can help our neighbors avoid homelessness
As the cost of housing increases so dramatically each year, homelessness can strike anyone. This year it struck Grace. A UCLA graduate with a successful accounting career and a 12-year old daughter who excels at sports, Grace lost her job early this year when her company unexpectedly closed. With a strong work history and a promising career, she began looking for a good long-term career opportunity. It was taking longer than expected when she was in a car accident.
San Diego must tackle homelessness with same urgency as Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is everywhere. On our streets. In our restaurants. Headlining the news locally and nationally. Throughout our health centers and hospitals. Seventeen people are dead and hundreds more infected. The recent attention on this public health crisis, and the urgency to protect ourselves and our families, has been significant. People are demanding results and holding our community leaders accountable. What if we brought that same level of urgency to the root cause of this crisis?
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