Breaking the cycle of homelessness
Photos: Breaking the cycle of homelessness
Through her Time for Change Foundation, Top 10 CNN Hero Kim Carter helps homeless women and children reclaim their lives.
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Photos: Breaking the cycle of homelessness
The group provides housing, counseling and job training, as well as services to help women reunite with their children.
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"Homeless women and children -- I call them invisible people. We pretend that we don't see them," Carter said. "But I see them. And I know there's something we can do to help them."
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Carter and her group helped Griselda, right, reunite with her two daughters. "I can never, ever get back those years that I lost with my daughter, but I can help make sure another mother doesn't lose time with hers," Carter said.
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Since 2002, more than 800 women have benefited from Carter's program.
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As part of Carter's program, women create individual plans for self-sufficiency, and the group provides services and support to help them reach their goals
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Carter plays a game with children and their mothers at the foundation's affordable housing complex in San Bernardino, California.
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Carter spent more than a decade cycling in and out of prison and homelessness. In 1993, she was accepted into a rehabilitation program that started her on a path to overhaul her life and get clean.
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