WE graduate Shakela Wade featured in The Sacramento Bee.

How one Sacramento native slid into homelessness — and how she found a pathway out of it BY CATHIE ANDERSON  JUNE 24, 2024

In times of crisis, Shakela Wade’s godmother, Virginia Avila, had always swooped in and provided the stability and words of wisdom she needed to tackle life’s latest challenges. So, in late 2022 when Wade learned that Avila was becoming forgetful and suffering falls, she quit her job doing shelter intake in San Francisco and returned to her native Sacramento to assist her. That decision brought Wade, an African American woman in her 40s, to the lowest point of her life last summer, desperately scrabbling to earn enough money to cover the rent on her godmother’s Greenhaven apartment after Avila was admitted into a skilled-care facility in spring 2023.

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