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For years I worked on the frontlines of homelessness in the urban South. It was good work, and one of the honors of my life that I got to do it. It was also exhausting and led to burnout and PTSD. I’m finally writing about that time, after years
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For years I worked on the frontlines of homelessness in the urban South. It was good work, and one of the honors of my life that I got to do it. It was also exhausting and led to burnout and PTSD. I’m finally writing about that time, after years
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NB: I am writing about the days I did street engagement work among the unhoused population as a way of dealing with the trauma I experienced there. – HH A few years into my work among the unhoused, I was making maybe $1200 a month doing this work, and it took
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NB: As I wrote about here, I am writing about the days I did street engagement work among the unhoused population as a way of dealing with the trauma I experienced there. – HH I was frustrated. I had been working on the streets of Raleigh for about a year, with
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Six years ago, in an effort to stay alive, I walked away from a decade and a half of work on the streets among the unhoused population. It was good work, and I was good at it, if not good at being as loving to myself as I was to
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Content Warning: Mentions of trafficking and sexual assault, but no descriptive content. It was Maria who made it clear to me that my middle-class sensibilities would not survive working on the streets among the unhoused community. Maria was a natural leader, attracting the respect of the other folks who were