Jim Trefil was our speaker this past week; he served as a peer mentor at The Healing Place and now works with us at Caritas Works and Embrace Richmond. He educated us on the history of The Healing Place and then went into the specifics of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). We learned that day, that AA [...]
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We started last week’s discussion by walking through the Employment Continuum of Care where we looked at the different types of employment like Supportive, Transitional, Competitive and Independent. Supportive employment gives people jobs and provides support for them by helping with soft skills like time management, understanding authority, etc. An example of a place that [...]
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Though the goal of Unity-Works is to unite people of all faith traditions around the issue of poverty; this particular post is written from the vantage point of the Christian tradition. I believe every major world religion calls for the faithful to care for the poor. However, the Christian perspective is a unique one as these text demonstrate. [...]
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This week’s session was on homelessness and housing. It was information packed with understanding the journey of homelessness. As our guest speaker from Homeward, Erika Haskins- Jones, mentioned, right now the journey is a linear one, where people travel from being at-risk through the very daunting process to permanent housing. The goal today is for [...]
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We began our Spring Session of Unity Works last Thursday by meeting our participants and our indigenous guides. We opened by answering the question, “What obstacles prevent us from reaching real solutions to the issues of poverty?” As we came up with a multitude of answers, lack of faith, red-tape from the government, lack [...]
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