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Meet the Team, Liz Fenn and ‘Drea Chicas
Meet Liz, FFH Grad Assistant Meet ‘Drea, FFH Grad Assistant Liz Fenn. A native of Washington State, Liz currently resides in Redmond...
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Meet the Team, Lisa Gustaveson
Ms. Lisa Gustaveson is joining Seattle University as program manager for the School of Theology and Ministry’s Family Homelessness Project. Gustaveson brings extensive experience in homeless issues to...
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Nickelsville Celebrates 1 year mark in West Seattle!
Peggy, Lead Organizer at Nickelsville By: Drea Chicas, MATL student at SU’s School of Theology and Ministry One of the most stressful things to do (for anyone) is to move. I experienced this dread many...
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The Power of Interfaith-Based Community Organizing
It’s inspiring to see successful examples of faith communities coming together to cry out against injustice! Minister Zachary Hoover says in his article, “I truly find God’s Spirit alive, and where we...
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Campion Foundation: Advocacy to End Homelessness
Best Practice Spotlight: Visit the Alliance for Justice Bolder Advocacy Digest to learn about how the Campion Foundation strategically invests resources to build and support a “strategically...
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Temple Beth Or: We’re helping to eradicate family homelessness
By Glen Pickus, Temple Beth Or | Sep 26, 2012 in the Mukilteo Beacon Nowhere in America can a minimum-wage, full-time worker earn enough to afford the fair market value rent for a two-bedroom...
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Off to Change the World – Wish You Were Here!
Just a couple weeks ago, Rabbi Alan Cook sent the Temple De Hirsch Sinai (TDHS) congregation a “Wish You Were Here” postcard. Absent hastily scribbled “we’re having a great time at the beach” and...
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FFH in Action! PNC Opens their Hearts to Homeless Families
By Lisa Gustaveson, Program Manager Faith & Family Homelessness Project What do we do now??? Puyallup Nazarene Church had just been notified they had been selected to participate in Seattle...
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FFH Voices: Local Speakers Shed Light on the Needs of Homeless Kids
By Harold Dash, Board President Temple Beth Or | Originally Published in the TBO Newsletter In October, there were 824 documented homeless children attending Everett public schools. At our Shabbat...
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FFH Voices: Housing Barriers are Catalysts Into Relapse
By Shannon Thomas, Member of Alki UCC Congregation‘s FFH Planning Team I am beginning my fourth year as Housing Case Manager with the King County Adult Drug Diversion Court. Participants in KCDDC have...
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Ending Homelessness: Openness to Unprecedented Possibilities
By John Forman, Seattle University’s School of Theology and Ministry Graduate Assistant to the Ecumenical Liturgical Coordinator. John prepared this homily based on Mark 6:1-12 for the School of...
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Poverty Immersion Workshops Build Understanding
Written by Lisa Gustaveson, Seattle University Faith & Family Homelessness Program Manager for Firesteel “What’s the best way to learn about complex social issues like poverty and family...
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Voices in Solidarity: The Call to Advocacy
By Elissa Knight, Advocacy Coordinator at FAITH I started off my career in social services as a volunteer in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Birmingham, Alabama. My neighbor in Birmingham was a woman...
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Guest Post: Want to end homelessness? Then we need to address domestic violence.
By Rev. Dr. Marie M. Fortune, Founder, FaithTrust Institute Sometimes the reasons for homelessness and poverty are obvious: a lost job, a bankruptcy, a foreclosure, a death in the family. But more...
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Welcome Sheila Houston! An interview with FFH’s newest team member
Meet Sheila Houston, the newest member of the Faith & Family Homelessness team! Sheila is a Seattle native and lifelong advocate for vulnerable women and children. In the video below, Sheila speaks...
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Faith in Action at All Saints Parish
A shout out to our partner parish in Puyallup, All Saints, whose advocacy and work with homeless families was just recognized in an article in Northwest Catholic last week! Read the full article below...
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Walking In Their Footsteps: A poverty simulation’s call to solidarity
Participating in a Poverty Simulation Workshop can be emotionally draining and surprisingly stressful. Living a simulated month in poverty means experiencing the feelings of inadequacy and anxiety that...
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Domestic Violence, Homelessness and the Church
By Lani Kallstrom, founder of Christian Coalition for Safe Families Christian Coalition for Safe Families (CCSF) formed in early 2011, bringing together advocates, therapists, professionals in the...
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Making Change through Community: An Organizer’s Story
Our guest blogger Julia Moen, an organizer for The Sound Alliance, is working to inform the community about King County’s Proposition 1 or “Best Starts for Kids” which aims to improve the health and...
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The Power of the People: 2015 Parliament of World Religions
If I’ve learned one thing over these many years of working on social justice issues it’s that no one person holds the solution. It’s the power of people – the more diverse the better – that forces...
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