{"id":401,"date":"2022-11-15T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T23:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/homelessness\/jeff-levine-of-the-lb-rescue-mission-addressing-homelessness-means-handling-childhood-trauma"},"modified":"2023-07-11T11:28:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T18:28:52","slug":"jeff-levine-of-the-lb-rescue-mission-addressing-homelessness-means-handling-childhood-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/news\/jeff-levine-of-the-lb-rescue-mission-addressing-homelessness-means-handling-childhood-trauma","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Levine of the LB Rescue Mission: Addressing homelessness means handling childhood trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeff Levine of the LB Rescue Mission: Addressing homelessness means handling childhood trauma\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AwiW8bAunqQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Voters and politicians alike have made addressing the expanding homeless population in Long Beach a top priority. Despite the city receiving $85 million in state and federal funding over the past two years, Long Beach has still seen a 62% increase in the homeless population since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Even in the face of those bleak statistics, there are nonprofits trying to reduce homelessness and address the root cause on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>One nonprofit is the Long Beach Rescue Mission. The Christian organization provides food, shelter, education and more meant to guide people into long-term housing.<\/p>\n<p>Today we speak with its chaplain and executive director, Jeff Levine, who talks about seeing homelessness as an issue of humanity, not just a problem to be solved.<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of The Word podcast, Levine discusses how childhood trauma increases the risk of homelessness and how he hopes to address that in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Levine stresses that being or becoming a Christian is not a requirement to receive help from the Long Beach Rescue Mission.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you or someone you know needs assistance, you can call the Rescue Mission at (562) 591-1292. If you want to donate you can visit them online at <a href=\"http:\/\/LBRM.org\">LBRM.org<\/a>.\u00a0 For the audio-only version of the podcast click <a href=\"https:\/\/theword.simplecast.com\/episodes\/the-word-jackie-rae-long-beach-resscue-mission\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"bpCtKjtCmx\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/old.lbpost.com\/news\/vip-records-sign-where-whistler-kelvin-anderson-interview\">VIP Records owner launches &#8216;Where&#8217;s the Whistler&#8217; campaign to give the legendary sign a home<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;VIP Records owner launches &#8216;Where&#8217;s the Whistler&#8217; campaign to give the legendary sign a home&#8221; &#8212; News\" src=\"https:\/\/old.lbpost.com\/news\/vip-records-sign-where-whistler-kelvin-anderson-interview\/embed\/#?secret=R1G3pSOuBa#?secret=bpCtKjtCmx\" data-secret=\"bpCtKjtCmx\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain Jeff Levine wants people to think of homelessness in more human terms\u2014not as just a problem to be solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"_":"field_619dbb8f5d947","_author_alias":"field_5bdcbfe4b60c2","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[86,35,87,84,85],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[88],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-jackie-rae","tag-locked-out","tag-podcast","tag-the-word","tag-the-word-on-long-beach","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}