VOL. 19 ISSUE 20
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DIRECTOR OF VENDOR PROGRAMS Darick Brown
CASE MANAGER Leo Grayburn
DIRECTOR OF VENDOR EMPLOYMENT Thomas Ratliff
VENDOR PROGRAM ASSOCIATES Aida Peery, Clifford Samuels
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INTERESTED IN BEING A VENDOR? New vendor training: every Tuesday and Thursday // 2 p.m. // 1317 G St., NW
The Cover Encampment by Union Station, D.C. PHOTO BY
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The Street Sense Media Story, #MoreThanANewspaper Originally founded as a street newspaper in 2003, Street Sense Media has evolved into a multimedia center using a range of creative platforms to spotlight solutions to homelessness and empower people in need. The men and women
Hajira Fuad, Nate Kral, Jem Dyson, Nick Pasion, Ashleigh Fields, Ingrid Holmquist, Alex Lawler
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE Willie Schatz (Writing), Bonnie Naradzay (Poetry), David Serota (Illustration)
ARTS EDITOR (VOLUNTEER) Austine Model
OPINION EDITORS (VOLUNTEER) Rebecca Koenig, Emily Kopp, Lydia DePillis
theatre, illustration, and more to share their stories with our community. Our media channels elevate voices, our newspaper vendor and digital marketing programs provide economic independence. And our in-house case-management services move people forward along the path toward permanent supportive housing.
EDITORIAL VOLUNTEERS Ryan Bacic, Katie Bemb, Megan Boyanton, Lilah Burke, Lenika Cruz, Roberta Haber, Allison Hageman, Alison Henry, Kathryn Owens, Priya Rhoehit, Nick Shedd, Andrew Siddons, Jenny-lin Smith, Rebecca Stekol,
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character, not through our housing situation.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Serve Your City is fundraising to send Ward 6 kids to summer camp
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AT A GLANCE VENDOR PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS • The FACE listening session will be April 8 at 10 a.m. Come have your voice heard! • Take a vendor survey starting April 15. Collect 10 papers and make $10! See Thomas, Darick or Leo.
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• “Beat the Streets” will be every Tuesday. Meet at Street Sense at 3 p.m. to boost your sales!
INGRID HOLMQUIST Editorial Intern
• Papers for vaccinations? Show us your CDC card and get 15 papers for being fully vaccinated plus 10 more for being boosted. • Interested in speaking about your experience as a vendor? See Thomas for details. THURSDAY, APRIL 7
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FRIDAY, APRIL 8
Committee on Housing & Executive Administration Budget Oversight Hearing
D.C. Interagency Council on Homelessness Meetings
FY23 LGBTQ Community Development Grant Session
Operations Subgroup to the ICH Leveraging Medicaid Workgroup April 6, 3 pm // Virtual
9 a.m. Virtual
Administrator will testify
Executive Committee April 12, 1:30 pm // Virtual ***For call-in information, as well as meeting info for unlisted working groups, contact: ich.dmhhs@dc.gov
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Affairs to learn about community development grant opportunities and the application process for community-based organizations.
BIRTHDAYS Marcus Green April 7 ARTIST/VENDOR
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NEWS
DC’s public housing authority renews promise to ‘build ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Street Sense Media & The DC Line
Greenleaf Gardens. Photo by Abigail Williams
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Residents advocate for their right to remain
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Greenleaf Gardens. Photo by Abigail Williams
Greenleaf is the first of many DCHA public housing site overhauls
Community members call for meaningful engagement in future Greenleaf plans
This article is co-published with The DC Line
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NEWS
What role should police have in protecting people living in encampments? HAJIRA FUAD AND NICHOLAS PASION Editorial Interns
Several residents of an encampment near Foggy Bottom, pictured here, expressed concern for their personal safety and the desire for an increased police presence. Photo by Hajira Fuad.
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Sharron Brown, 61, is a resident of the Virginia and 25th Street encampment. After witnessing several violent incidents on the encampment, Brown expressed concern for the safety of herself and other encampment residents. Photo by Hajira Fuad.
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NEWS
People living in Columbus Circle react to National Park Service plans to close their encampment NICK PASION AND HAJIRA FUAD Editorial Interns
The Columbus Circle homeless encampment, located outside of Union Station, on March 30th, 2022. The National Park Service announced plans to clear the encampment in early May. Photo by Hajira Fuad.
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Jorge, 29, moved to the Columbus Circle encampment in mid-March, 2022, from Illinois. He would rather live outside than in a shelter, because shelters are "too crowded." Photo by Hajira Fuad.
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OPINION
The Oscars: Let's stop making excuses for Will Smith’s bad choices WENDELL WILLIAMS
Wendell Williams is an artist and vendor with Street Sense Media
Shelters or prison? DONTÉ TURNER
Donté Turner is a vendor with Street Sense Media
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Food for thought! MARCUS MCCALL
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Creative writing prompt DANIEL BALL
Steel Cage of Invisible ‘Crobes FREDERIC JOHN Artist/Vendor
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Inspired by “Sympathy” by P.L.
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African girl JACQUELINE TURNER Artist/Vendor
Riding the Metro PHILLIP BLACK Artist/Vendor
The power within DONTÉ TURNER Artist/Vendor
A new spring day AMINA WASHINGTON Artist/Vendor
Displacement over there And what it means to me over here ANGIE WHITEHURST Artist/Vendor
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It’s the ones close to you LEVESTER GREEN Artist/Vendor
My Harris Teeter VENNIE HILL Artist/Vendor
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Author Gene Weingarten is a college dropout and a nationally syndicated humor columnist for The Washington Post. Author Dan Weingarten is a former college dropout and a current college student majoring in information technology. Many thanks to Gene Weingarten and The Washington Post Writers Group for allowing Street Sense to run Barney & Clyde.
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All services listed are referral-free Academy of Hope Public Charter School 202-269-6623 // 2315 18th Place NE aohdc.org
Bread for the City - 1525 7th St., NW // 202-265-2400 - 1640 Good Hope Rd., SE // 202-561-8587 breadforthecity.org
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Foundry Methodist Church // 202-332-4010 1500 16th St., NW ID (Friday 9am–12pm only) foundryumc.org/ministry-opportunities
Friendship Place // 202-364-1419 4713 Wisconsin Ave., NW friendshipplace.org
Catholic Charities // 202-772-4300 catholiccharitiesdc.org/gethelp
Georgetown Ministry Center // 202-338-8301 1041 Wisconsin Ave., NW georgetownministrycenter.org
Central Union Mission // 202-745-7118 65 Massachusetts Ave., NW missiondc.org
Jobs Have Priority // 202-544-9128 425 2nd St., NW jobshavepriority.org
Charlie’s Place // 202-232-3066 1830 Connecticut Ave., NW charliesplacedc.org
Loaves & Fishes // 202-232-0900 1525 Newton St., NW
Christ House // 202-328-1100 1717 Columbia Rd., NW christhouse.org
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Full-time/Part-time // $20-$25 per hour // Monday-Friday, weekend availibility Succotash Prime is hiring up to 6 bussers and runners to bring food to customers and clear tables in Penn Quarter restaurant. Up to $1K hiring bonuses paid. REQUIRED: Must be able to carry up to 25 pounds, potentially up and down stairs.
Sasha Bruce Youthwork // 202-675-9340 741 8th St., SE sashabruce.org
So Others Might Eat (SOME) // 202-797-8806 71 O St., NW some.org
Community Family Life Services 202-347-0511 // 305 E St., NW
My Sister’s Place // 202-529-5991 (24-hr hotline) mysistersplacedc.org Community of Hope // 202-232-7356 communityofhopedc.org
Covenant House Washington 202-610-9600 // 2001 Mississippi Ave., SE covenanthousedc.org
N Street Village // 202-939-2060 1333 N St., NW nstreetvillage.org
New York Avenue Shelter // 202-832-2359 1355-57 New York Ave., NE D.C. Coalition for the Homeless 202-347-8870 // 1234 Massachusetts Ave., NW dccfh.org
Father McKenna Center // 202-842-1112 19 Eye St., NW fathermckennacenter.org
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Thrive DC // 202-737-9311 1525 Newton St., NW thrivedc.org
Engage and support youth ages 18-24 experiencing homelessness, disconnection and exploitation. REQUIRED: High school diploma or equivalent.
Unity Health Care 3020 14th St., NW // unityhealthcare.org - Healthcare for the Homeless Health Center: 202-508-0500 - Community Health Centers: 202-469-4699
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St. Luke’s Mission Center // 202-333-4949 3655 Calvert St., NW stlukesmissioncenter.org
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JOB BOARD Runner and Busser Succotash Prime // 915 F St., NW
Samaritan Ministry 202-722-2280 // 1516 Hamilton St., NW 202-889-7702 // 1345 U St., SE samaritanministry.org
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Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless 1200 U St., NW // 202-328-5500 legalclinic.org
The Welcome Table // 202-347-2635 1317 G St., NW. epiphanydc.org/thewelcometable
Whitman-Walker Health 1701 14th St., NW // 202-745-7000 2301 MLK Jr. Ave., SE // 202-797-3567 whitman-walker.org
Hiring two part-time Visitor Services Associates to work in the main lobby of the new Reagan Institute in Washington, D.C. In addition to receiving and directing visitors, these associates will be expected to provide support at the Institute’s special events. REQUIRED: High school diploma or equivalent APPLY: https://tinyurl.com/ ReaganVisitorServices
Hotel Housekeeper Washington Plaza Hotel // 10 Thomas Circle, NW
Part-time // $22.1K to $27.9K per year // 8-hour shifts Housekeepers clean assigned rooms according to hotel standards, place and restock useable items in the rooms and maintain and restock housekeeping cart REQUIRED: N/A APPLY: https://tinyurl.com/ WashPlazaHotelHousekeeper
Patricia Handy Place for Women 202-733-5378 // 810 5th St., NW
Samaritan Inns // 202-667-8831 2523 14th St., NW samaritaninns.org
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SENSE STREET MEDIA Real Stories Real People Real Change
Dear Friend, At Street Sense Media, our ultimate hope for the men and women we work with is that they succeed in making the journey beyond homelessness. Since it launched in 2017, our case management program has helped our vendors secure permanent housing. The program, made possible by the generous support of donors like you, has been a game-changer for some of our most vulnerable vendors. And while we celebrate each of these life-altering success stories, we are also keenly aware that much more work needs to be done.
Unmet need stares us in the face every day.
That unmet need stares us in the face every day. To see it, we have to look near Metro Center where in of us, the residents of those tents are welcoming the arrival of spring, having just survived a cold and harsh winter outside. But soon, the sweltering heat and humidity of a Washington summer will be upon them, meaning mere survival will once again be a daily struggle. Our case managers will continue to work with the occupants of these . We will also encourage them to take advantage of our newspaper vendor program and perhaps even entice them into writing for the newspaper. These are opportunities that greatly expanded over the last year. We now publish the newspaper of vendor-written content that we publish. And since 2020, vendors are paid whenever their work is published in the paper!
Together, we can work to meet their needs.
To say the least, adding a case management program and expanding to weekly publication has been a big lift for us, one we could not have made without the loyal and generous support of donors like you. We’re spending about $250,000 more per year to support this growth. We believe that this expansion makes it more likely that we can be the kind of beacon for people who are living outside in our community. Like you, we believe that homelessness is unacceptable and that its existence tears at the fabric of our community. We are committed to doing everything in our power to work with our vendors and others like them to move toward the creative talents our vendors possess, and we are proud to be a conduit that brings such talent forward. As we work to sustain our recent growth and search for new ways to help meet the needs of our vendors, can we count on your continued support? I hope that in the future I can tell you that the tents are gone from in front of o . Your gift can make that possible. We thank you for your support and wish you and your family the very best. Sincerely,
From your vendor,
Brian Carome
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