ROCHESTER, Wash. -- A mom who has comforted and counseled scores of homeless kids has run out of room and money.

Anna Brown fed, clothed, and nurtured all her sons' troubled friends, even after her boys joined the Air Force.

"I know that my grocery bill got to be pretty high," she said. "At about $800-$900 a month."

John Hansmen was one of those boys who sought a safe haven here when his parents divorced.

"You're my mom," Hansmen said to Brown. "You're someone who has been there."

Brown realized too many homeless teens had nowhere to go, and they kept showing up at her house with a pillow.

"When I see those kids, I just want to grab and hug them and let them know that I understand," Brown said.

Brown was a homeless teen. She's now quit her job, and mortgaged her home to start "Help 4 Hard Times.

Her garage is jammed with donations and looks more like a Goodwill. Now, she has no place to put donations or teens.

"We've outgrown our home," she said.

Brown is trying to raise $20,000 to rent a space in Olympia to help offer homeless teens job skills and life skills, and an old restaurant in Centralia to help victims of circumstance including flood victims.

"Without all these things, kids will wind up back on somebody's couch tonight and not know tomorrow where they're gonna be," Brown said.

Help 4 Hard Times is raising more than money; Brown wants to raise the hopes of hurting teens.

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