When was the last time you asked a homeless person what they used to do, or how they got to be where they are today? Working at the UCLA Mobile Clinic, I have the privilege of learning my patients' stories on a weekly basis. I've learned that there is no limit to the amazing things some of them have done (or are currently doing!). Homelessness does tend to be a downward spiraling process: one thing going wrong and leading to the next thing falling apart. It's hard to lift oneself out of once that, any many of our clients have been through some seriously devastating situations in their lives.
This brief video journal asked homeless people to write down one fact about themselves on cardboard. I thought this was a really cool idea--it revealed things that rarely come up in our Social Histories, but can often times be so integral to who a person is and what makes them tick:
http://www.trueactivist.com/homeless-people-were-asked-to-write-down-a-fact-about-themselves-their-answers-may-surprise-you/
Credit to Ebony for posting this originally!
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