Meghan Sheffield shares her experience supporting unhoused community members in her hometown.
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In this episode of the podcast, I chat with Meghan Sheffield, a friend and co-conspirator living in Cobourg, Ontario. For the first issue of the Novitas magazine, Meghan shared an intimate and beautiful article about her experience working with her community to support a growing unhoused population in her hometown.
Meghan and I talk about a lot in this episode: grassroots versus agency support, de-stigmatizing what it means to be unsheltered, unpacking her experience providing on-the-group support, the impact of the rising costs of living on the current homelessness crisis, and more.
We mentioned a few different organizations in Cobourg and Guelph that I wanted to link:
Green Wood Coalition uses a community model of caring to walk alongside people living with poverty, mental and physical illness, drug dependency and disability. You can find out more about them on their website at https://www.greenwoodcoalition.com.
Hope House Guelph increases the well-being of vulnerable adults, youth and children through the provision of immediate relief and ongoing support. They operate and advocate on the belief that poverty, food insecurity, inequality, health and community are all interconnected. You can learn more about Hope House on their website at https://www.hopehouseguelph.ca.
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If you have a person or project who you think is doing really awesome work in their community, please recommend them by emailing me at kel@novitasmag.com.
If you’d like to read the transcript of this podcast, you can click the transcript link on the substack article. Thanks for listening!
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