John Nettles, right, looks on as his children watch a show together on a portable DVD player in the play room at The Valley Mission on Aug. 8, 2015. “I wanted to try and make my kids feel at home,” said Nettles, describing how he brought a TV into the shelter but had to take it out of their room due to one of the organization’s policies. “There’s a lot of things that you can’t have, but I still try anyway.”