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Wearing Moccasins
This month we are sharing stories of lived experiences, an effort to help convey the importance of anthropology while designing solutions to address homelessness, especially our homeless addiction disorders. If you have read the previous brief you were introduced to Saphire, if you haven’t, these build off previous Briefs. She continued interacting with our program and other network members for…
Centering Human Voices
Doc, an avid twelve stepper for many years now, touching thirty, is grateful for an unexpected gift inside his PhD! He identifies this gift as discernment. Initially, it fell under the guise of words from his spiritual director, “you must learn to discern Holy Angels from Unholy ones.” Conducting research is like that, discerning phony research results from valid credible ones. A high school…
A Freedom Trail
Wraparound Services When one of our editors, Mr. Tell, proposed the concept of a path from streets to housed, the concept hit home with Doc. Transitioning from one particular world view to another, or from a homeless lifestyle to a housed one, is a process, a path to follow. Putting our homeless from where they are currently into a housed situation, as in the housing first ideology, will require…
A Path to Restoration
I can’t find my way home Love your work, Ms. Melanie: “Friday morning, the stench of urine in front of the shelter was overpowering despite the mild temperatures that didn’t get past 65 degrees. And it’s only April. Numerous people were seen disappearing into an alleyway-like path behind the shelter — perhaps there is a back entrance to the complex.” She continues: “To date, Lowell has not…
The Path
From Streets to Stability Just recently the concept of incentives was mentioned. Maybe you are wondering how incentives can help with Homeless Addiction Disorders! All they seem to focus on is the next re-up, or getting good, “you have a couple dollars?” The only care in their world appears to be scoring more alcohol, heroin, or cocaine. Well, let’s change the way we look at things. Let’s look…
First! It Works!
What “Housing First” really meansWhy housing is part of treatmentCommon criticisms of Housing FirstEvidence and success stories next The close of February offered a close-to-home perspective and early roots of how one might end up homeless. As we reflect today on what, why, and how housing first works, a dear friend comes to mind –Tall Jimmy. He liked to share, during our group meetings words…
Homeless Roots
As mentioned in our earlier Brief, how folks end up homeless is extremely complex, it’s not just due to one or two factors. Folks like to assume things this way and that way, like their drug addiction, or mental health condition, or simply being lazy criminals puts them out on the streets. Sure, this sort of view alleviates responsibility, right? We can just kick back and lounge on the “Bystander…
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Root Causes of Homelessness
An interesting, featured image, created by Ms. Emily LaBranche inspires today's News Brief! The artwork portrays a moon and the sun, plus two words. On the moon side it reads “clueless” and on the sun side it reads “sacrifice,” which made little sense until Doc’s daughter explained. This month’s theme looks at the complexity of “how“• Housing costs and wage gaps• Mental health, addiction, and…
