Jovanda Taylor — a nurse born and raised in Louisiana — needed a change of scenery after her mother passed away, so she set out looking for work in Houston, Texas.
But when her Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) certification didn’t transfer across state lines, she was forced to move back to her home state — without a home to return to.
As Taylor and her boyfriend Kevin Washington hunted and applied for jobs, they were forced to sleep out of their truck with their two dogs…