Author: Rocky
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2020 Housing Survival presentation for the Utah Homeless Conference
Click on this video to see a training I did for the Department of Workforce Services in 2020. The training was by zoom for everyone because of the pandemic. I like this iteration of Housing Survival because it focuses on elements of the home that can be understood as tools for survival. https://youtu.be/MRZpKi6_cX8?feature=shared Read more
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The ground is the same.
This is a picture of a whiteboard drawing from a recent Housing Survival class. It illustrates the very basic principle that the life experience and trauma that people bring to public housing creates a type of “ground” wherein they will live. It is dark, rich, and fertile, like soil. Which means it can be used Read more
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Unspoken Messages.
Safety creates context. When I think about harm reduction, I am often reminded of Marshall McLuhan, a theorist from the ’70s who was obsessed with the effects of television and popular media. McLuhan’s most famous quote was “The medium is the message”. This concept of “medium” is precisely why harm reduction is effective. The act Read more
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The Gulf.