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Where to Begin as People of Faith — suggestions contributed by Joan Clement
What Quakers are doing
- https://www.fgcquaker.org/quaker-finder/friends-southwest-center/
- https://www.nextavenue.org/creating-tiny-house-village-for-homeless/
- https://www.quaker.org.uk/blog/an-update-on-the-quaker-housing-trust
- https://www.sbfriends.org/communityinvolvement
- Friends Shelter, New York City —https://friendsshelter.org/about/#:~:text=History,shelter%20opened%20in%20April%201983.
- North Pacific Yearly Meeting, December 2022. Housing Sharing Session notes, video. Friends providing first hand accounts of being and serving homeless persons.
Making housing available
- A model for building temporary housing with dignity: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaE194b_Dk8
- ADU Accessory Dwelling Units in Sonoma County: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sonoma-county-relaxes-restrictions-on-in-law-units-to-put-dent-in-housing-s/?ref=mostsection
- http://www.SquareOneVillages.org
- Open Source Modular Housing Design , Customer-built. : https://www.ted.com/talks/alastair_parvin_architecture_for_the_people_by_the_people
- Quickhaven, Tiny homes for the homeless: https://quickhaven.com/
- Social Housing, introduction and a Maryland example, from Joan Clement
Providing services
- Care Court: Upcoming CARE Act Ad Hoc Group Meetings – California State Association of Counties. See also Care Court will become a path toward institutionalization. California State Association of Counties, meetings on Care Court.
- Flowchart for Homelessness Resolution see Pg 26: https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/Main%20County%20Site/Health%20and%20Human%20Services/Health%20Services/Documents/Homelessness%20Services/Continuum%20of%20Care/Continuum%20of%20Care%20Board%20Meeting/2023/June/06282023-CoCBoard-Meeting-Packet.pdf
- Homelessness Reaches the Supreme Court: As It Weighs One Approach, A Better One Waits in the Wings – National Alliance to End Homelessness. Report on the alternative: New Federal Funding Boosts Unsheltered Homelessness Response – National Alliance to End Homelessness
- Peer support: https://caps.academy/home-peer-supporters-academy.html
- What one business is successfully doing for people experiencing homelessness in Oregon, https://www.klcc.org/housing-homelessness/2024-01-15/in-freezing-temperatures-big-city-gamin-opens-to-eugenes-unhoused, only about a minute long
Organizing
- Creating Authentic, Effective Partnerships between Organizations and People with Lived Experiences: A Toolkit | Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (ucsf.edu)
- International Social Housing Movement – https://www.housingeurope.eu/ and
- International Union of Tenants – https://www.iut.nu/about-iut/ multi-sectoral networks of local and regional stakeholders in 42 countries working toward UN SDGs by building and preserving diverse non-capitalist and green housing and healthy neighborhoods.
- CAL ICH California Interagency Council on Homelessness – Ludmilla is a member of the Advisory Committee here, which helps advise the Interagency Council: https://bcsh.ca.gov/calich/
Skills, personal growth, opportunities
- Crucial conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, by Patterson, Grenny, et al. McGraw Hill. 2002; third edition 2017. (Housing as violence.)
- Miracle Messages: https://www.miraclemessages.org/
- Reconciliation Leadership (expand the spiral): https://virginiaswain.com/leadership-programs/reconciliation-leadership/
- Regenerative business design, Earth Activist Training
- Water, Love, and Respect (with links to source research): https://fountainmagazine.com/2019/issue-132-nov-dec-2019/water-the-power-of-positivity-and-education