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by Chicago Coalition for the HomelessThe podcast of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.
Recent podcasts
Voices of Hope with Bryan Riddle, winner of 2007 Chicago Coalition for the Homeless Scholarship Award.
22/08/2007
Bryan Riddle embodies perseverance in the face of tragedy. As a child, Bryan was in the foster care system. Though his foster mother adopted him and loved him deeply, Bryan was left homelessness when she died during his senior year of high school. In spite of these struggles and traumas, Bryan graduated from Christian Fenger Academy in Chicago, won a Golden Apple Scholarship, and received one of the 2007 Chicago Coalition for the Homeless Scholarship Awards. This fall, Bryan will be a freshman at Northern Illinois University, where he will he prepare for his career as a future teacher.
The Word on the Street: What are real solutions to ending homelessness?
22/08/2007
In this episode of Word on the Street, Wayne turns the commonplace idea that job programs, economic growth, and care systems are the ways to end homelessness on its head. Wayne argues instead that these solutions are really part of the reason why homelessness is so entrenched in our society.
The Word on the Street, by Wayne Richard
08/08/2007
In this episode of Word on the Street, Wayne talks about the meaning of opportunity as he reflects on an Action Forum he attended which was sponsored by the From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign: Realizing Human Rights in Illinois. To learn more about this Campaign, please go to www.povertytoopportunity.blogspot.com.
The Word on the Street, by Wayne Richard
01/08/2007
This is the inaugural pod column of The Word on the Street, by Chicago Coalition for the Homeless organizer, Wayne Richard. In this weekâs column, Wayne talks about the experience of homelessness, the false assumptions that prevent many of us from seeing people who experience homelessness as full human beings, and what we can do to fight not only our societyâs systemic lack of resources in terms of living wage jobs, affordable housing, and adequate healthcare, but also the lack of love we as a community have for people suffering from extreme poverty.
Voices of Hope
27/07/2007
In this episode of Voices of Hope, John Maki interviews Kianca Fincher, one of the 2007 Chicago Coalition for the Homeless College Scholarship Recepients. Ms. Fincher discusses her experiences of being homeless in high school.
