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Note: I made a slight shift in my project's focus so I am documenting the previous project ideas and my current.
Previous: What I plan to do with my project is to help homeless people share their stories and find out how being homeless has affected a person’s psychological wellbeing and perspectives.
Present:
How does one’s identity contribute to the conditions that lead to homelessness? And how does their identity affect one’s getting out of the homelessness system?
My Process
My Process
I started with the idea of brainstorming my interests. I had social welbeing and envrionmentalism in my mind when I begun.
Then I moved onto the questions that I had to explore:
How do I make a lasting impact?
How do I get rid of the savior complex?
What role does homelessness have on me?
What could I actually do?
Kept Thinking
What resources did I have?
Students Fighting Homelessness Club
Dr. Ali
Connections at Hoboken City Hall
Connections to shelters
First Question:
How does Mental Health and Homelessness coincide with each other?
Second/Final Question:
How does one’s identity contribute to the conditions that lead to homelessness? And how does their identity affect one’s getting out of the homelessness system?
What do I do:
Interview the workers at a shelter. Interview someone with experience or understanding.
Where could I exhibit?
Talking and reaching out to shelters
Schedule Interview:
Trinity Place
Homes for the Homeless
Knock Knock, Give a Sock
Gather information through research:
Research from different websites and studies and take notes
Use information and notes to put into writing/notes/format
Gather information through interviews:
Interview Homes for the Homeless- Linda Bazerjian
Interview Knock Knock, Give a Sock- Adina Lichtman
Spent my two weeks creating this presentation
What you're looking at right now!!
Previous:
Previous:
Original Ideas:
Interviewing workers at homeless shelters
Mental health
Stability
How often and likely it is for people to get out of shelters
Anecdotes/Experiences
Want to speak about the mental health of the patients and overall in general because it is looked down upon in society
There is a big stereotype about the mental health of homeless people in society
Mentally illness
Just want drugs and substances
Scary and dangerous
The messed up their own lives to get there
I want people to be able to care and get a different perspective on homelessness than the majority does right now
Trying to work with
Homes for the homeless
Trinity Shelter
Other homeless shelters in NYC/NJ
People doing similar things/projects in GCS
Answering the other questions I have
How often people get out of the shelter?
How the people in the shelter act when they first home?
Their origins?
Born into homelessness?
The future?
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