Culture Watch: “Inocente”: A Young Artist’s Journey Through Homelessness

...in an otherwise unstable world. Photo by Sean Fine. Written by Perry Firth, graduate student, Seattle University Community Counseling, and project assistant, Seattle University’s Project on Family Homelessness The bright...

Culture Watch: “My So-Called Life” and, like, the homeless teens Christmas episode

...read this wonderful blog post about the film “Eden” by our Seattle U grad student Perry Firth. It’s a wonderful life for Angela, but not for Rickie I don’t want...

McKinney-Vento, IDEA and You: Strategies for Helping Homeless Children With Disabilities

We hope this series takes a jumble of policy and turns it into helpful strategies for serving students who are homeless and have disabilities. Word cloud using McKinney-Vento and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act definitions, created at <a href="http://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud/">jasondavies.com</a> — We hope this series takes a jumble of policy and turns it into helpful strategies for serving students who are homeless and have disabilities. Word cloud using McKinney-Vento and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act definitions, created at jasondavies.com

...Part Six in our series on homelessness and poverty in the public education system Written by Perry Firth, project coordinator, Seattle University’s Project on Family Homelessness and school psychology...

Innovating Toward Academic Success: Empowering Students Who Are Homeless or Living With Toxic Stress

In this post we discuss some very good ideas, like connecting housing and support services to school and using research on toxic stress to shape how schools respond to learners. Image from Pixabay.com

...Part Seven in our series on homelessness and poverty in the public education system Written by Perry Firth, project coordinator, Seattle University’s Project on Family Homelessness and school psychology...

Children and Adversity: Childhood Homelessness Can Cast a Long Shadow

...By Perry Firth, Graduate Student, Seattle University Community Counseling, and Project Assistant, Seattle University’s Project on Family Homelessness Many of us intuitively understand that our childhood impacts us as...