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From Homelessness to Housing, Families Achieve Stability through Self-Determination and Community Support
Once a family faces eviction or experiences homelessness in the Twin Cities, how do they eventually find a home? With community support from counties, shelters and local organizations, families take… Read more »
Using a Framework for Community-Engaged Research
In this post, Melanie Ferris describes how using a framework can help your organization be intentional and transparent in how you work with community.
How Meetings and Gatherings Benefit From the Shared Human Experience
Who we are and how we see the world is heavily influenced by our lived experience, which ultimately gets expressed in a wide range of individual perspectives and worldviews. Nonetheless, there is… Read more »
What Can We Do Together That We Can’t Do Alone?
The diversity of our communities and our organizations means that almost any time we come together, we do so across difference. That's where this research and practice-based collaboration resource… Read more »
Preventing Homelessness in Our Community Starts with Trust
I have been working to help families experiencing homelessness stabilize for more than two decades and I’ve heard it all before. The stereotypes, the explanations, the rationale for why we develop… Read more »
Talking Terms: When Community Engagement and Research Intersect
Researcher Amanda Hane explores how developing a clear understanding of these terms can help your organization be more intentional about why and how you engage communities.
Reimagining Knowledge, Power and Experience for Community-Driven Change
At some point, many of us have heard the phrase, “knowledge is power,” but how many of us have actually taken that phrase literally? For many years, my understanding of knowledge was based on a '… Read more »