Looking for support in Jessicas fight for housing security

Hey y’all, to those who donated to my previous GoFundMe, I want to say thank you so much. I got to buy so much medical equipment that was a game changer for my health. I also just wanted to be bold enough to ask for help one more time.

My life has never been easy; I’ve never had a chance to be a kid at any point. At this point in my life (22 years old), all I know is struggle and hardships. There is nothing else that will help you in life but to keep going and push to keep putting one step in front of the other. Of course, that still includes fighting to get support and wrestling through prayer, but the hard work never really ends. I’ve accepted a long time ago that I’m not the average 22-year-old.

So my situation is, during COVID, I was very suicidal and in a very dark place. I was at UC Berkeley in person during that time. I was failing to the point where I got an F in every class for over a year. During the 3 semesters, I withdrew so those grades wouldn’t count. However, in the 3rd semester, I found out that the university had taken a pause from charging students for withdrawals during COVID. So they told me I now owe $9,000 for the 3rd semester. I took time off at that point and was away for around 4 years, going to community college during that time. With my disabilities, it’s taken me time to get to a healthy and strong state, and it’s finally time to go back to UC Berkeley. I got a grant that paid for half, so now there’s $4,600 left to go. But now there are no more grants, no more outside solutions. The deadline for my readmission application is June 1, and I need to pay it in full in order to be allowed to be readmitted. And I need to submit ASAP so that I can get access to the housing application so I can have somewhere to live.

Now, you might not think this is an emergency, but that’s not where it ends. At the moment, I live with my mom, and she has helped me so much, but now I’ve seen a need for a new environment where it can be more emotionally stable so that I can continue to heal and grow even as a student. It also would be a great pressure off my mom. We plan to move by the end of the summer because our apartment is no longer a place we can live. We’ve been looking all year, and there haven’t been any signs. The only other option is to live separately with family, which would be very emotionally unstable for me regardless of me attending school or not. Not having a secure place to live can cause emotional triggers resulting in stress and chronic pain, not allowing me the space to heal. Even possibly leading me to a decline in my health. Finally being able to have my own space would bring me so much further to be able to grow in getting better.

So I’m asking for help with a better life, even if it’s not easy and involves a lot of hard work. I’ve put in the photos proof of my financial debt, but also of my several diagnoses that all of this will hugely impact regardless of outcome, either in a good or bad way. I want a chance to be a kid too, and go to college like a normal 20-year-old.