“Pass the Mic” is a storytelling space featuring the voices and stories of people with a lived experience of homelessness. Read this story from Lucia, translated from the original Spanish.
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To know the people we care for and the people who make that care happen is to know Health Care for the Homeless. Our promise to you: Getting to know them will make your life just a little bit richer.
"Pass the Mic" is a storytelling space featuring the voices and stories of people with a lived experience of homelessness.
“Pass the Mic” is a storytelling space featuring the voices and stories of people with a lived experience of homelessness. Read this story from client and community builder, Woodrow McCoy.
“Pass the Mic” is a storytelling space featuring the voices and stories of people with a lived experience of homelessness. Read this story from Health Care for the Homeless Board of Directors member, Albert Miller.
“Pass the Mic” is a storytelling space featuring the voices and stories of people with a lived experience of homelessness. Read this story from family man Oscar Riaz, translated from the original Spanish.
Women in crisis have a safe space and excellent care because of you. Your support makes sure women like Linda Mason get care when they need it most.
Linda’s world flipped upside down when her cancer returned two years ago. Isolated and afraid, Linda turned to alcohol to numb the pain and fear. Luckily, she knew where she could go for help.
When you first meet Kara Demindes, you’re struck by her unshakable resolve. Born at just 24 weeks, Kara spent the first nine months of her life in the hospital, fighting to survive. “I held on,” she says. “And I’m still holding on today.”
Vanessa has the kind of smile that lights up a room. But those perfect teeth, and the joy behind them, once seemed out of reach.
“I never thought I’d be able to have teeth,” she said, fighting back tears. “I thought I would never smile again.”
We don’t know what the future holds for David.*
Before he could get his late-stage cancer treated, David’s oncologist told him that his mouth had to be cleared of all infection.
Parita Patel, our Dental Director, did what she could. She conducted an exam and pulled many of his infected teeth. But David needed oral surgery with sedation to safely remove all the damaged teeth.
Kara Nelson signed up to volunteer as a way to get to know her Constellation coworkers better. But after helping nearly 200 people get warm coats and hearing their stories, Kara walked away with an entirely new understanding of homelessness.