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RIsing From The Ashes

12 images Created 15 Sep 2022

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  • Shelly carries Phoenix home after having breakfast at McDonald's after working the Friday night shift.
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  • Shelly Shrum takes a nap after her daughter, Phoenix, fell asleep watching "Barney & Friends" in their living room.
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  • Stephen Shrum shares a moment with his daughter, Phoenix, after she calms down from being upset.
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  • Shelly Shrum plays with her daughter, Phoenix, in their front yard.
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  • Shelly Shrum sleeps with her daughter, Phoenix, 2, on the living room floor after watching "Barney & Friends" in their home on the Cedar Street property of the Daniel Pitino Shelter that works with homeless women and families.
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  • Phoenix laughs with her baby doll as she is hugged and kissed by her parents, Shelly and Stephen, before he heads to work early Friday morning.
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  • Stephen Shrum leaves homes with Phoenix just before 5 a.m. to walk her across the parking lot to leave her with Shelly at the shelter so he can go to work. Since Stephen and Shelly work opposite shifts, many times they see each other for only a half hour a day.
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  • Shelly Shrum grieves as she discusses the eviction of another resident earlier in the evening due to narcotic use. Although Shelly was the same place just a few years earlier, she has risen to leadership at the Daniel Pitino Shelter and can help others who are in a similar situation.
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  • Shelly Shrum daily smokes more than a pack of cigarettes to deal with the stress of overcoming her opiates addiction.
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  • Shelly Shrum fills out an incident report on a woman who was evicted from the shelter due to narcotics use.
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  • Stephen Shrum makes a face as he is slapped by his daughter, Phoenix, just after waking up Thursday morning to go to work. When he goes to work, Phoenix spends the remaining two hours of her mother's shift at the Daniel Pitino Shelter with her.
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  • Shelly Shrum pushes her daughter, Phoenix, towards the end of her night work shift at the Daniel Pitino shelter.
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