How Storytelling Can Help End Homelessness

StoryCorps offers people the opportunity to record, share, and preserve their stories. Photo credit: Tony Rinaldo via StoryCorps.

...we have the opportunity to collect and share impactful stories about family homelessness in collaboration with expert storytellers. StoryCorps is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide people of...

“I Know I’m on the Right Path”: Determined to Graduate Despite Homelessness

Ashley Danielson talks about her experience with homelessness with her former case manager, Marty Shaw, in a new StoryCorps "Finding Our Way" story. Image credit: StoryCorps.

...school,” Ashley tells her former case manager from Cocoon House, Marty Shaw, in the newest story produced from the “Finding Our Way” StoryCorps project. Listen to it here: Despite so...

Wired for Empathy: How and Why Stories Cultivate Emotions

Stories are powerful because they help us understand the perspectives of others. Image from hedgerleywood.org

...into why well-crafted stories are such powerful advocacy tools. To me this helps explain the success behind storytelling projects like StoryCorps and The Moth. When the audience hears the story...

Storytelling Intersects the Personal and Political

Telling our own stories and listening to the stories of others bridges the gaps that are between us. Image from Pixabay.

...“Finding Our Way” StoryCorps project invited people who have experienced homelessness to tell their story through their own words in a conversation with a friend or loved one. Here on...

Community Talk About “Finding Our Way: Puget Sound Stories About Family Homelessness”

...Join KUOW host Bill Radke for a conversation about the recent StoryCorps “Finding Our Way” recordings about family homelessness. Meet local families who participated. Take a look behind the...