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”Everyday Heroes: A Kandid Chat w/ Katina Holliday Founder of Hollidays Helping Hands”

On this “Everyday Hero Spotlight episode, The Kandid Shop welcomes Katina Holliday, the Founder and CEO of Holliday's Helping Hands, an organization that provides interim housing and wraparound services to people experiencing homelessness in the LA County area. Katina shares her personal experience with homelessness via her father, as well as statistics about homelessness in the United States- there are roughly 582,462 people experiencing homelessness or 18 out of every 10,000 people. Holliday's Helping Hands takes a "hand- up" approach, providing love and support to those in need. This organization allows families to stay together, including same-sex parents and mothers and daughters and single father’s in a “home” not a warehouse-like shelter. The organization also operates a recuperative care facility for individuals who have been discharged from hospitals but still need medical care. One of the organization's key programs is a 12-week life skills training program for homeless individuals. The program focuses on teaching skills such as money management, budgeting, opening a bank account, professionalism, completing job applications, writing resumes, and interviewing. The goal is to equip individuals with the necessary skills to secure and maintain employment. The program also includes hands-on training in retail services and landscaping and maintenance. The retail services program teaches customer service skills, while the landscaping and maintenance program teaches the necessary skills for those fields. The organization plans to expand the program to include a catering service, which will provide certification for those who love to cook. The program is part of the organization's holistic approach to addressing homelessness, which includes providing counseling services, mental health services, nursing staff, and specialized meals for individuals with chronic health issues. The program is designed to help reduce homelessness and assist individuals on their journey to finding permanent housing. Katina & Holliday's Helping Hands are committed to helping families and individuals experiencing homelessness by providing them with the support and resources they need to achieve self-sufficiency and a better quality of life. Guest Contact Info: https://hollidayshh.org/ https://instagram.com/hollidayshelpinghands?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= https://www.facebook.com/HollidaysHH About Katina Holliday: From the time she was a little girl growing up in Aberdeen, Mississippi, Katina Holliday knew she wanted to help people. How exactly? She didn’t quite know. Never in her wildest dreams, though, could she ever have imagined running one of Southern California’s most successful, minority-led companies dedicated to serving society's “forgotten populations.”As founder of Holliday’s Helping Hands (HHH), Miss Holliday is transforming the lives of both homeless and pregnant women recently released from the penal system who are taking their first steps to reenter society. Through her specialized programs, HHH is helping give them newfound purpose. But that’s not all her faith-based company does. In fact, it was her ability to adapt to the needs of the communities she serves that led her to answer a call from the Department of Human Services. The agency sought to ease the pressure exerted on our overburdened hospitals caused by the high numbers of COVID patients. Miss Holliday worked closely with the County of Los Angeles to reinvent motels and hotels in communities with the greatest need into makeshift hospitals to accommodate the overflow.To get a glimpse of what Miss Holliday is all about, one need only retrace her upbringSupport the show

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