Travelers Aid helped him get glasses and land sporadic airport jobs, as well as find a place in a Brooklyn mission.
After 10 years of offering the contract for the program exclusively to Travelers Aid, the city opened it to bidding last year.
Travelers Aid bid $200,000, but the Salvation Army, which bid about $163,000, won the contract and took over the program in July.
Mr. Trujillo's caseworker at Travelers Aid, a nonprofit agency, told him that the family ruling applied only to children and spouses of legal aliens.
Kennon sighed as he left Travelers Aid.
Today, Travelers Aid responds to the specific needs of the community.
Travelers Aid couldn't help him.
This year, 120 families with children have slept on the floor of Travelers Aid, a social service center in Providence that is not a shelter.
To make matters worse, in Chicago I have to be put up in a hotel by the Travelers Aid.
Anyway, the Travelers Aid gives me a couple of dollars and finds me a place.