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Breaking Apart Homelessness Misconceptions: The Real Facts About Homelessness in America
When you think about homelessness, what image first comes to mind? People experiencing homelessness have widely varied experiences, yet...
Jimena Chavez
Apr 3, 20236 min read
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Championing Social Justice through Social Work
“What really drove my passion in social work school was the links that I found between the child welfare system, the residential facility...
Jacob Landau
Mar 2, 20235 min read
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Adopting a Racial Equity Lens to Address Homelessness
The increase in rates of homelessness in the past four years has proven that homelessness is not only a social or economic issue, but one...
Jimena Chavez
Feb 1, 20234 min read
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How the Justice System Reinforces the Homelessness Cycle Through Mass Incarceration
The United States population is approximately 330 million people, representing 5% of the world’s occupants. However, the so-called Land...
Giullia Caldeira
Jan 12, 20233 min read
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Youth Homelessness Awareness Month: Challenging Harmful Stereotypes With Lived Experiences
When you think of homelessness, what comes to mind? Many think of people sleeping on the street, or individuals walking by cars asking...
Sam Goodman
Nov 10, 20224 min read
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Hotels: A Congregate Shelter & Housing Shortage Solution?
Housing Shortage in Boston & Beyond In 2022, Boston was ranked fourth in cities facing the worst housing shortages and fourteenth in a...
April Tate
Oct 26, 20227 min read
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Building Job Security: How Transitional Employment Facilitates Ending Young Adult Homelessness
“More often than not, homeless people become homeless through circumstances that they can’t control…we’re so attached to the idea that it...
Jacob Landau
Aug 25, 20223 min read
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Take Action: How You Can Help The Unhoused During Heat Wave Emergencies
As we enter the hot months of summer, many of us retreat to the comfort of our homes, protected from the sun and often cooled by fans and...
Sam Goodman
Jul 27, 20222 min read
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How the Overturning of Roe vs. Wade will affect People Experiencing Homelessness
On June 24, 2022, in the middle of Breaktime’s Launchpad graduation, a shadow fell over our office, as the graduation audience looked...
Breaktime
Jul 1, 20223 min read
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The Cycle of Mental Health: Examining the Intersection of Homelessness, Covid-19, & Mental Illness
Photo by Isaac Quesada on Unsplash Earlier this year, hospitals were having a crisis. With more young adults seeking care for mental...
Jacob Landau
May 31, 20223 min read
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Implications of Climate Change on Housing Insecure and Financially Insecure Communities
Every year, disasters such as hurricanes, floods, tornados, wildfires, landslides, and beyond ravage communities across the United...
Hope Pollard
Apr 22, 20224 min read
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Homelessness: The Overlooked Public Health Crisis
The term “public health crisis” has taken on a whole new meaning in the past few years. When prompted to think about a public health...
Sam Goodman
Mar 24, 20224 min read
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Black History Month: Redlining and Homelessness
Today, over 500,000 people experience homelessness in the United States on a given night. Most of these people are Black and more...
Jacob Landau
Feb 9, 20223 min read
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Remaining True to Our Mission: Breaktime’s work throughout the pandemic
The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to reflect. From “new year, new me” posts to new years resolutions, it’s a perfect time...
Jimena Chavez
Jan 11, 20223 min read
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Surviving the Holidays
When many people think about the holiday season, they picture themselves surrounded by friends and family, sitting around a table full of...
Hope Pollard
Dec 17, 20213 min read
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November is National Youth Homelessness Awareness Month
Homelessness shapes lives, and our society’s engagement with those affected by housing insecurity shapes homelessness as a social...
Jacob Landau
Nov 2, 20214 min read
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The Foster-Care-to-Homelessness Pipeline
Transitioning From State Foster Care to Adulthood Each year, 20,000-30,000 young adults nationally, including 600-1,000+ in...
April Tate
Jul 23, 20215 min read
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Op-Ed: A Letter to Myself: Lessons From Three Years of Breaktime
About three years ago, as a freshman at Harvard University and just days after founding Breaktime with Connor, I wrote a letter to my...
Tony Shu
Jul 6, 20217 min read
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‘Costing Us All’: The Troubling Prevalence of LGBTQ Young Adult Homelessness
June is Pride Month—that time of year to commemorate the history, challenges, and contributions of the LGBTQ community. As we celebrate...
Emma MacKenzie
Jun 24, 20215 min read
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The ‘Crushing’ Cycle of Homelessness and Mental Illness
When Janet Smith, an alumna of Breaktime, speaks about her past experience with homelessness, she describes a personal battle complicated...
Aaron Lai
May 28, 20214 min read
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