Sacramento Bee | Book of Dreams: Art classes provide healing, focus for women at Sacramento homeless shelter
Sacramentan Micaela Partida, 38, can recite all the facts that led her to endure homelessness for three years, but she struggles to put words together describing all the trauma she experienced.
“I suffered from a disability due to a car accident when I was a teenager,” she said. It left her hip and other parts of her left side permanently weakened, but she never let it get in the way of her ambition.