The AnchorED City

S3:E7 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Mental Health w/ Faith J Myers

Mental Health and homelessness are closely intertwined. On this episode we hear from Faith J. Myers a mental health and psychiatric patient rights activist who draws on her personal experience to seek better care for Alaskans.

Myers is the author of the book “Going Crazy in Alaska: A History of Alaska’s Treatment of Psychiatric Patients” and the eBook “Mental Health Care in Alaska 2022: A Report Card by a Former Psychiatric Patient.”

A commentary connected to this episode can be found at:

https://www.juneauempire.com/opinion/opinion-failure-of-alaskas-mental-health-care-system-contributes-to-homelessness/

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Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/never-ending-loop-homelessness-psychiatric-disorder-and-mortality

Myers, F. J. (2020). Going Crazy in Alaska: A History of Alaska's Treatment of Psychiatric Patients. United States: BookBaby. p. 61ff.

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/03/22/doctors-at-api-were-right-50-years-ago/

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2016/09/23/brother-francis-shelter-marking-35-years-of-caring-pauses-to-remember-its-beginnings/

S3:E6 - The Hydra of Homelessness: LGBTQ+ and Homelessness w/ Laura Reijns

LGBTQ+ youth risk homelessness at a rate that is 120% higher than other youth. Join us as we talk to Laura Reijns, the Co-Director of Operations for Choosing Our Roots, about LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness in Anchorage.

facebook.com/choosingourroots

@choosingourroots

www.choosingourroots.org

#anchoredcity

Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://slace.syr.edu/homeless-gay-ignored-the-need-for-federal-aid-to-combat-the-epidemic-of-lgbtq-youth-homelessness-in-america/

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https://slace.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/The-Need-For-Federal-Aid-to-Combat-the-Epidemic-of-LGBTQ-Youth-Homelessness-in-America-by-Joseph-J.-Railey.pdf

https://nn4youth.org/lgbtq-homeless-youth

On this episode we look at a head of the Homelessness Hydra that might not be the first thing one might think of: public health. Join us for a conversation with Dr. Emily Mosites, Senior Advisor on Special Populations at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

facebook.com/cdc

@cdcgov

www.cdc.gov

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Resources Used to Make This Episode:

Emily Mosites, Emily Eisenberg Lobelo, Laura Hughes, Jay C Butler, Public Health and Homelessness: A Framework, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 226, Issue Supplement_3, 15 October 2022, Pages S372–S374, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiac353

The stereotype that is often voiced about those experiencing homelessness is that they are substance abusers, but it’s not that simple according to our guests Jen O’Neal (Clinical Supervisor for Supportive Housing) and Catherine Smith (Peer Support Specialist for Supportive Housing) at Volunteers of America. Join us in learning more about how substance use and abuse interacts with homelessness and why relationship is therapeutic.

https://voaak.org

https://www.facebook.com/VOAAlaska

@VOAAlaska

#anchoredcity

Resources Used to Make This Episode:

Rocke, K. & Van Dyke, J., 2017, Incarnational training framework: A training guide for developing leaders engaged in city transformation, 2nd edn., Street Psalms Press, Tacoma. P. 49.

My co-worker’s daughter asked her recently, “Why don't homeless people who get money save it for housing?" Our guest on this episode, Meg Zaletel has the answer. Zaletel is the Executive Director of The Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness and represents Midtown (District 4) on the Anchorage Assembly. We are talking about affordable housing with her on this episode.

aceh.org

facebook.com/AnchorageHomeless

@anchoragehomeless

https://www.muni.org/Departments/Assembly/Pages/default.aspx

S3:E2 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Anchorage’s Homeless History w/ Nancy Burke

Anchorage has been dealing with complex social issues like homelessness for a long time. In this episode we learn more about how the city has responded to homelessness over the years from my guest Nancy Burke. Burke has been involved in responding to homelessness for many years and is currently the Special Assistant for Housing and COVID-19 response at the United Way of Anchorage.

www.facebook.com/liveunitedanc

@liveunitedanc

www.liveunitedanc.org

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S3:E1 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Solving Homelessness is a Hard Thing To Do

A pope, a mayor, and an archbishop walk into a podcast. That sounds like the set up for a joke. It’s not. However, in this episode you find out what a Pope, a mayor, and an Arch Bishop – not to mention a rose garden and the mythical beast the Hydra - have to have to do with homelessness in Anchorage.

Join us as we start Season 3 of the AnchorEd City Podcast: The Hydra of Homelessness.

For a good primer on the recent history of homelessness response in the Anchorage check out:

ADN Politics podcast: “The past, present and future of Anchorage homelessness - What happened, why and what’s next in Anchorage’s ongoing and changing homelessness crisis.” https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/08/26/adn-politics-podcast-the-past-present-and-future-of-anchorage-homelessness/

Resources used to make this episode:

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2016/09/23/brother-francis-shelter-marking-35-years-of-caring-pauses-to-remember-its-beginnings/

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/02/26/remembering-alaskas-visit-from-the-pope-40-years-later/

RUNAWAY TEENS FIND SHELTER AT COVENANT

By Larry Campbell - November 2, 1988 

Anchorage Daily News (AK)  - Page: B1 

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/news/0F78DCC2CFF26855?search_terms

Covenant House Will Offer Care and Love for Our Youth In Need

By Robert B. Flint – May 30, 1988

Anchorage Daily News (AK) – Page: B7

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:1445094F387BC7E2@NGPA-AKADN-179A4D2269D3C5FB@2447312-179A4BE422F65907@16-179A4BE422F65907@?search_terms

A Home of Last Resort

By Mitch Lipka – March 31, 1987

Anchorage Times – Page: D1

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16C02882AAA45086@2446886-16C0274CA3F2A38D@30-16C0274CA3F2A38D@?search_terms

https://www.facebook.com/bronsonformayor/photos/pb.100069243578372.-2207520000../268953178267434/?type=3

Rosenheck, R., 1994. Homelessness in America. American journal of public health, 84(12), pp.1885-1886.

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.84.12.1885

Christensen, J., Arnfjord, S., Carraher, S. and Hedwig, T., 2017. “Homelessness across Alaska, the Canadian North and Greenland: A review of the literature on a developing social phenomenon in the Circumpolar North”. Arctic, 70(4), pp.349-364.https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4680

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/humanitarian

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2022/06/17/opinion-moving-forward-on-anchorage-homelessness-solutions/

https://alaskalandmine.podbean.com/e/alexis-johnson-and-corey-allen-young-episode-252/

https://twitter.com/EastAncBookClub

BTS 11: EMERGENCY - BACK TO SCHOOL – ENCORE: 

A Long Drive To School: A Trailer Park And Its School Zoning

The distances that the youth from the Dimond Estates neighborhood travel to school has been inequitable for years, but in light of the current bus driver shortage in Anchorage it has become a matter of discrimination.

Here is our encore presentation of “A Long Drive To School: A Trailer Park And Its School Zoning” from Last September explaining the historic situation.

We hope you will give it a listen.

We hope even more that you will contact the Anchorage School District to voice you concern and displeasure about the Bussing Situation in Anchorage and discriminatory districting.

Contact the Anchorage School Board at: https://www.asdk12.org/Page/1442

Resources used to make this episode:

Anchorage Daily Times, 1970, ‘Mobile Home Park Has Large Recreation Room’, 19 December 1970, viewed 12 September 2021, from https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16BC7D1719AB9B77@2440940-16BC6DC6F6E133BE@5-16BC6DC6F6E133BE@?search_terms

Anchorage Daily News, 1970, ‘Mobile Home Park Opens For Rental’, 20 December 1970, viewed 12 September 2021, from https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:1445094F387BC7E2@NGPA-AKADN-14653E2BF14E0608@2440941-14653BADDDF0B65B@4-14653BADDDF0B65B@?search_terms

Anchorage Daily News, 2003, ‘High School Boundaries On The Move’, 21 January 2003,

viewed 12 September 2021, from

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:1445094F387BC7E2@NGPA-AKADN-17B1F40A9B7CC1FA@2452661-17B1B913208CC402@14-17B1B913208CC402@?search_terms

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https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:1445094F387BC7E2@NGPA-AKADN-17B1F40A9B7CC1FA@2452661-17B1B90D1E153E18@12-17B1B90D1E153E18@?search_terms

https://www.asdk12.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=115&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=55011&PageID=1

https://www.asdk12.org/cms/lib/AK02207157/Centricity/Domain/1204/Ethnicity%202020-2021.pdf

https://www.asdk12.org/domain/1254  

https://www.asdk12.org/Page/6696

https://www.asdk12.org/Page/6697

https://www.asdk12.org/Page/6698

Tunseth, M., 2015, ‘Anchorage public schools lead nation in diversity’, 23 May, 2015, Anchorage Daily News, viewed 28 January 2019, from https://www.adn.com/education/article/anchorage-melting- pot-diversity/2015/05/24/.

Jay, Z., 2010. Decoded. Random House, p.218

BTS 10: Summer Music Special

Songs are one way to tell a story. In this episode we will talk to a couple musicians (Andy Ball of Rival Dads & Hollis Bryan) who are telling stories through song in Anchorage.

For More:

Rival Dads:

https://www.facebook.com/Rival-Dads-100769102397143

@rivaldadsmusic

https://www.instagram.com/rivaldadsmusic/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/musicpunks

Hollis Bryan:

@hollis_bryan_

@thesundaynights

@mediumbuild

https://www.instagram.com/hollis_bryan_/

https://www.instagram.com/thesundaynights/

https://www.instagram.com/mediumbuild/

[email protected]

BTS 9:

Turning the Tables w/ Julia O’Malley: The Imagine Project

On our last episode we heard from Julia O’Malley about the stories of Anchorage’s pandemic year that she is compiling. On this episode we turn the tables and Julia interviews Joel Kiekintveld and Jessica Louwerse about the Anchorage Urban Training Collaborative’s Imagine Project.

For More:

https://www.anchorageutc.org/allpeople