The second half of the video finds Shirley ready to move into senior housing she can afford. Homeless people take over an empty lot owned by the State of California and set up a campground and start a garden and feeding program. Because of jurisdictional confusion between the city of Santa Cruz and the State the campers remain for almost a week until they are evicted by police. The feeding program continues. The use of voice mail and video is a powerful and innovative pilot work access program for homeless and poor families making use of a donated state of the art voice mail system and video taped resumes.
Homeless people are able to present themselves to a wide public access cable television audience.
Video Resume, broadcast over 50 times on local public access television, found work for about a third of the participants . The program presented a view of homeless people often forgotten in the public perception of people living in poverty. These videos have had a very real impact in assisting people to find work, and to shift some bad attitudes about poor people who want to work and need to work to get off the streets.