Things I learn, think about, and do:
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Including people with lived experience enriches the systems we are building and drives our strategies. Many of our best innovations, such as housing first were born from the lessons of people who have experienced homelessness. The first step is to ensure that there is a shared commitment and framework to include everyone — especially people with lived experience — in planning, implementation, and evaluation.
While at the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, I worked closely with my team to support commuinities that wanted to end homelessness. One important partner was faith groups. My colleague Joe Savage and I shared what we learned in here:
While I was working at the United States Interagency Council on homelessness, I explored what it would take to apply a human rights lens to the work of ending homelessness. Part of addressing human rights includes being responsive to everyone. Here is a blog I wrote on addressing homelessness among women:
Much of the work I do relies on my ability to work with groups of people and individuals who agree on what they don’t like, but are less familiar with what they want to do about it, or even if they want to be involved in taking action together. There is no one single way to support people in order to effect change, but I think there are some common themes