Homeless mom and her two daughters live in a van near Seattle

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 20:05:26 +0000

I spent the day with a homeless family here in Seattle, yet it felt like spending the day with a normal family. The big difference was at the end of the day Carey and her daughter Maggie drove their van to a park to sleep for the night.

I first met Carey Fuller through I post she wrote on change.org "What It's Like To Be A Homeless Mother" [http://bit.ly/lloSgo]. She blogged anonymously so I had to beg the editor to connect us. From that point on I have been so very impressed by Carey. I have done everything I can to help her and will continue to do so.

Yesterday, I met Carey and her daughter at a yard sale they were holding. On weekends she tries to make a little money by selling either old stuff she had in storage or new stuff she finds. Carey is very resourceful. When she needed money to repair the van they live in she published a Kindle version of a book she wrote on Amazon.com [Writings From The Driver's Side http://amzn.to/m4F5Wh].

Carey wants to start chronicling homeless life on video. I was bringing her cameras, but they were stolen at my first stop when the car was broken into. I am all about empowering homeless people so that did not stop me. I just took Carey to Best Buy and let her pick out a camera that would fit her needs.

In the afternoon Maggie, Carey's youngest daughter (oldest daughter was at camp) wanted to go swimming. We drove to a local park and Maggy jumped right in to playing in the sand with other kids. No one would ever notice this family lived in a van, unless we told them.

This is the first time I have spent the day with a homeless family. As a case manager in Los Angeles, I spend lots of hours with families experiencing homelessness, but never like this. I had mixed emotions all day. Part of me was overjoyed seeing Carey and her daughter as a normal family, and part of me was dreading what I know was going to happen next.

read post here http://invisiblepeople.tv/blog..../2011/07/carey-fulle

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