Changing the Conversation

Nayenday Thurman, Chief Operating Officer at the Center for Social Innovation, and host Jeff Olivet discuss organizational benefits to hiring people with lived experience and share strategies for hiring, supervising, and retaining. This episode is 4th in a four-part series on “Recovery at Work.” Visit thinkt3.com and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn for more resources to grow your impact.

Kim Noerager of the Center for Social Innovation talks with host Jeff Olivet about the benefits and challenges of being open in professional settings about her recovery journey. This episode is 3rd in a four-part series on “Recovery at Work.” Visit thinkt3.com and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn for more resources to grow your impact.

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Watch "People with History of Homelessness Encouraged to Apply" as Steven Samra talks about how his experiences being homeless inform his work. 

Steve Berg of the National Alliance to End Homelessness joins host Jeff Olivet for an engaging conversation about preventing homelessness. They address housing policies and changes to systems that would keep people stably housed.

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Host Jeff Olivet talks with Claas Ehlers, Chief Executive Officer of Family Promise, about supporting families experiencing homelessness in achieving independence through community-based responses.

Organizations Mentioned

Family Promise

SchoolHouse Connection

Bassuk Center on Homeless and Vulnerable Children & Youth

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National Network to End Family Homelessness

Services Matter: How Housing & Services Can End Family Homelessness

Racial Equity and Homelessness: You Can’t Tinker Your Way Toward Justice

Host Jeff Olivet talks with Marc Dones, project director of SPARC: Supporting Partnerships for Anti-Racist Communities.

Marc and Jeff share what they are learning from qualitative and quantitative data collected in communities working to end racial inequities in housing and homelessness. They also discuss program and policy reforms needed to reduce the disproportionate number of people of color experiencing homelessness in the U.S.

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Resources Mentioned During this Episode

SPARC: Supporting Partnerships for Anti-Racist Communities

The Future is in the Margins by Ann Meyer & David Rose

Poverty Data from the U.S. Census Bureau

Point in Time Data from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development

From Exclusion to Destitution: Race, Affordable Housing and Homelessness by George Carter

Housing Wage Calculator by the National Low Income Housing Coalition

Living Wage Calculator by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Out of Reach by the National Low Income Housing Coalition 

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Join a live, online course with Marc & Jeff on “Racial Equity & Homelessness” Thursdays in March.

Host Jeff Olivet talks with Sarah Rosenkrantz and Sam Greenberg, co-founders of Y2Y Harvard Square—a student-run overnight shelter for young adults experiencing homelessness. They discuss how Y2Y provides sanctuary, pathways out of homelessness, and opportunities for advocacy in a trauma-informed environment.

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In our last episode of 2017, host Jeff Olivet shares personal reflections on the 7 words reportedly prohibited from the upcoming Centers for Disease Control (CDC) budget.

Read the report in the Washington Post.

Read NPR's coverage of the CDC's response to the report. 

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In our third and final podcast in the series covering the 100-Day Challenge efforts in Baltimore, Columbus, Hennepin County, Louisville and Palm Beach County, we spotlight Palm Beach County.  Kat Hammer and Nicole Frederick from the Palm Beach County 100-Day Challenge team discuss their challenge goal and how they accomplished it.  They also discuss coordinated entry, case consultation, youth collaboration, what is meant by "functional 0" and how close they are as a community to ending youth homelessness for good.