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“This Is Our Place”: A Journey From Illness and Homelessness to Stability and Community

Nick Hodges and Charlotte Wheelock experienced homelessness with their two young sons after Nick became ill with spinal stenosis. They talk about their journey from homelessness to stability in a <a href="http://kuow.org/post/homeless-and-sick-i-would-just-go-restroom-and-cry" target="_blank">StoryCorps conversation</a> that airs on KUOW today. Image by StoryCorps.
Nick Hodges and Charlotte Wheelock experienced homelessness with their two young sons after Nick became ill with spinal stenosis. They talk about their journey from homelessness to stability in a StoryCorps conversation that airs on KUOW today. Image by StoryCorps.
...Written by Denise Miller, Firesteel Advocacy Manager A typical StoryCorps recording is a 40-minute interview between two people who know each other well. Last summer, I helped coordinate dozens...

New StoryCorps Interview on KUOW: “No One Really Chooses to Be Homeless”

"Up until I was about like 7 I thought that everyone basically had a home and was pretty much safe all the time," Thandi tells her grandfather, Desmond, in a StoryCorps interview. "But then I learned that some people don’t really have a home, and it made me want to do something." Image credit: StoryCorps
"Up until I was about like 7 I thought that everyone basically had a home and was pretty much safe all the time," Thandi tells her grandfather, Desmond, in a StoryCorps interview. "But then I learned that some people don’t really have a home, and it made me want to do something." Image credit: StoryCorps
...the family’s homelessness, like, ‘Now what did I do that got us kicked out of the apartment, that got us evicted?'” Desmond recorded a StoryCorps converesation with his 11-year-old granddaughter,...

Art for Advocacy: The Face of Family Homelessness

Partnering with Seattle Art Museum for the screening of “Inocente” allowed us to reach a new audience of art lovers. Here, they give Inocente a standing ovation at the conclusion of the film. Photo by Steve Schimmelman.
Partnering with Seattle Art Museum for the screening of “Inocente” allowed us to reach a new audience of art lovers. Here, they give Inocente a standing ovation at the conclusion of the film. Photo by Steve Schimmelman.
...Refugees” Film Fellowship program; our partners at the advocacy network of Washington State YWCAs, Firesteel; the storytelling experts at StoryCorps and The Moth; and many more. 8 THINGS WE’VE LEARNED...

Introducing the New StoryCorps Section of Our Website!

Alexis Gaines and her case manager Tanya Mendenhall Mettlen participated in the StoryCorps "Finding Our Way" project. In a new audio story produced from their interview, Alexis talks about how she tried to create positive memories for her son, even as they experienced homelessness together. Image credit: StoryCorps
Alexis Gaines and her case manager Tanya Mendenhall Mettlen participated in the StoryCorps "Finding Our Way" project. In a new audio story produced from their interview, Alexis talks about how she tried to create positive memories for her son, even as they experienced homelessness together. Image credit: StoryCorps
...just a few of the stories captured by the StoryCorps “Finding Our Way: Puget Sound Stories About Family Homelessness” initiative last summer, and now featured on a new section of...
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