Street Side: The Street Medicine Institute Podcast

Kevin F. Adler is the author of When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, And The Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America. He is also the Founder of Miracle Messages, which combats the relational poverty of homelessness through reconnection with lost family and friends. Listen in to Michael's conversation with this inspirational author, leader, and social entrepreneur.

Miracle Messages website HERE

or https://www.miraclemessages.org/⁠⁠⁠

Substance Use Disorder is both prevalent and highly lethal among rough sleepers. Dr. Shaina Shetty guides us through a harm reduction approach, providing compassionate support and medication-assisted therapies to help individuals on their road to recovery.

Dr. Shaina Shetty is a family physician who is passionate about providing high-quality patient-centered care to all patients, regardless of their ability to pay. Her clinical interests are in the management of substance use disorders, HIV/Hepatitis C, and complex chronic disease, with a focus on the care of patients navigating housing instability.

Special thanks to Co-Host Michael Brennan.

In this episode, Dr. Marguerite Urban from Rochester, NY reviews the latest trends, research, and treatments of Sexually Transmitted Infections, with a particular focus on Street Medicine.  Dr. Urban currently directs the NYSDOH Clinical Education Initiative (CEI) Sexual Health Center of Excellence and continues to serve as the Medical Director of the Monroe County STD Clinic, a position she has held since 1994.

In this episode, we dialogue with KK Assman, NP, the founder and director of Kansas City's Street Medicine Program, "Care Beyond the Boulevard." A robust program that utilizes clinics, mobile units, and street-level care to serve the unhoused, Care Beyond the Boulevard also provides Medical Respite Care for those being discharged from the hospital.

Care Beyond the Boulevard link HERE

https://www.carebeyondtheboulevard.org/history

"Love is always the next right thing to do"

Greg Boyle is a Jesuit priest who is the founder and director of Homeboy Industries, the world's largest gang intervention and rehabilitation program. He is the former pastor of Dolores Mission Church in Los Angeles. He writes and speaks widely on the need for the transformative power of love in society. His books include Tattoos on the Heart, and Cherished Belonging.

Homeboy Industries website is HERE

or https://homeboyindustries.org/

His Wikipedia page is HERE

or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Boyle

Join Co-Host Vinh as he attends the International Street Medicine Symposium in Hilo, Hawaii. Meeting new people walking the path of street medicine and outreach from students to providers. Here's a special recap episode from just a few of the amazing voices from ISMS.

Special Music from Prod.neverforever on Ukulele

Special Sounds from Hilo, Hawaii, natural rain

Let's talk about burnout! Join us for an amazing discussion with Dr. Vikki Reynolds. Vikki works as a Consultant, Facilitator and Supervisor in Team Development, Resisting Burnout and Sustainability, ‘Trauma’ and Witnessing Resistance to Violence and Oppression, and a Supervision of Solidarity. As a Clinical Supervisor and Therapeutic Supervisor Vikki is informed by narrative and collaborative therapy, and provides individual and group Clinical Supervision to therapists and community workers. She is the author of "Justice-Doing at The Intersections of Power: Community Work, Therapy and Supervision. "

You can learn more about Vikki and her upcoming work by visiting HERE

https://vikkireynolds.ca/

Join us this week to listen to Dr. Liz Frye Chair of the Street Medicine Institute and Street Psychiatrist at the Center for Inclusion Health, Allegheny Health Network. Driven by a long-standing desire and commitment to connect deeply with and improve the health of people experiencing extreme poverty, Liz first began providing street-based psychiatric care in Atlanta, Georgia, USA in 2008. Liz joined the Street Medicine Institute board in 2016 and has led the Institute’s annual international street medicine symposia since 2017. She brings the following skillset to the Street Medicine Institute board: founding and directing an Atlanta-based street medicine program; writing and managing street medicine specific grants; designing and guiding qualitative research with people sleeping rough; teaching students and medical residents clinically on the streets; assisting street medicine teams to develop and expand street-based psychiatric care in their communities; and a population-based public health approach to street medicine. Liz completed medical school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and her general psychiatry residency, Community Psychiatry Fellowship, and Masters in Public Health at Emory University.

Join us this week to listen to Michiko Fried, DNP and Kevin Emmons, DNP from HOPE Services Hawai'i speak on their experiences performing Street Medicine in Hilo.

Hope Services website is HERE

or https://hopeserviceshawaii.org/

Join us this week to listen to Community Health Worker and Member of the Board of the Street Medicine Institute, Joseph Benson, about his lived experience. We learn about the value of CHWs on any street medicine team from an integral member of Health Care for the Homeless in Houston, TX.

Health Care for the Homeless website is HERE

or https://www.homeless-healthcare.org/