H.O.B.O.S. with G.O.D. stands for Helping Our Brothers (and sisters) Out Side with Good Orderly Direction. I'm  (Ian) actually starting this to help my wife (Rachel Schuyler) pursue her dreams of being able to make a difference, now and for future generations, while simultaneously rising from oppression and discrimination herself.  (The Texas Observer recently published a report on her called "from jail to the streets":  https://www.texasobserver.org/homeless-jail-covid-19-texas/ ). At this conjecture we are both homeless with our siezure response dog during a pandemic which has stay at home orders allowing for little to no resources for reentry, much less any employment availability. We are also battling CPS and working services to get our 8 month old daughter back. We have been on the housing waitlist through ECHO and now integral care for about 3 years. Regardless of our situation Rachel always manages to keep a lighthearted optimistic  outlook on things, constantly helping the less fortunate homeless around us with anything extra we have. Even when it seems like we are barely making it, she will take what we have been given and somehow stretch it enough or split her portion with the next 2 people in need.  She swears that with G.O.D. (Good Orderly Direction)  on our side all things are possible and we will be ok, all while battling the fear of once again losing her baby. H.O.B.O.S with G.O.D. is something she dreamed up a few years back while we were embarking on a "spiritual journey", as she called it, trying to save our first kid together from CPS. During which we walked to Oklahoma from San Antonio, Texas with nothing but the bags we could carry in October weather. That's another story altogether though. The point I am trying to make I guess is that now that we are both working with the courts to right our wrongs and have the ability to get I.D.s and real jobs, to be working citizens in the community, the assistance for re entry etc. are all closed and time is still ticking by on our CPS case/lives/and her dreams of making a legacy/difference due to a worldwide pandemic which we have no control over.  I want to help her raise and save the money to better her situation so she can take what she has learned in life and use it to help others. I believe that when she finally has a fighting chance she will use what she's learned along the way to help other people/organizations etc.  Rachel grew up in the texas foster care system and has PTSD from her many terrible experiences as both a child without a voice and a teen parent with no choice. Her and her oldest son were separated when she was 16 (he then about 3 yrs old) due to Txdfps' inability to find a placement that would house them together. Not many foster parents are looking for a teen mom and her baby. So rather than see her son endure the abuse/neglect she had, she agreed to let her baby's father's grandparents adopt him. She remained in custody bouncing from place to place every 2 weeks to 3 months, moving all her belongings in black trash bags IF she was even allowed to keep them, until she aged out of foster care. During the years up until she aged out she spent every weekend, summer, and school holiday running away from placements trying to escape the abuse and alienation she endured within the system. "Raised by the streets of San Antonio" she turned to drugs and criminal activities, trying to numb herself from the reality in which she lived. I know you're probably under the impression that foster kids who age out have so many benefits such as government funding for college, foodstamps, medicaid, etc. but as it stands there are those like Rachel who age out with no support systems or homes to go to during the transition.  In her case already having been so familiar with instability only led to chronic homelessness, addiction, criminal charges.  Now that she has the ability to get an i.d. and her life together she is faced with a slew of new obstacles completely out of her control due to a pandemic. Even now that reentry programs are reopening, with many businesses being permanently closed or only reopening with 25% capacity and a felony on her record there are fewer options available for employment. On top of the employment situation she has now once again (4 years of working with Sunrise Community church, echo and now integral care trying to get housing assistance) "fallen through the cracks" so to speak. This also leads to another issue she is hoping to help the community with in helping those like us who aren't quite "crazy enough or addicted" that don't meet the standards for rapid rehousing etc. through the city's government programs but still very much need the leg up to get off the streets. She has high hopes of saving our family and then turning her entire life's experiences into catalyst's for change to better the community and assist with helping others turn their lives around. Everybody needs somebody especia