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...feel a tremendous peace," said the aac's Anderson as the Dallas meeting wound down. "There's a period in a marriage where a spouse is battered and abused and they finally take the kids and the suitcase and get out of there. They may be sitting in a shelter, but they're finally able to say, 'I'm safe.'" Others may want to hark back to Duncan's Solomon reference, and wonder whether, after all the pulling and prodding, the contested child may not be permanently damaged...
...easy it is to overcommit without fully committing. In her first year, Hammond had a Best Buddy to mentor, a spirited 12-year-old girl from Martin Luther King Junior school, balanced shifts at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, and kept up intramurally the sports she’d done in high school—volleyball and soccer. “I had no idea what commitment at Harvard was like,” she confesses. “I realized I couldn’t do everything.” Eventually, Best Buddies made a decision for her: that...
...James summer shelter calls itself a “transitional shelter,” which means that it’s more than a place to spend the night; it’s a 12-week program that screens its applicants and aims to help its residents settle into long-term housing and sustainable employment. The four student directors, in addition to overseeing the daily operation of the shelter, each handle three “cases,” putting their clients in touch with professional non-profits like Boston Home Start and the Piano Dave Project. The directors meet...
...most formative part of my college experience.” Initiated into public service at Harvard on the pre-orientation Freshman Urban Program (FUP), he eventually directed two large-scale PBHA programs, one of the thirteen Summer Urban Programs in 2001 and the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter. Above all, his public service work at Harvard was essential to giving him an “understanding first of all that was what the public service community was like. It enabled me to enter that community intelligently in Philadelphia.” His directorships taught him how to run a public service...
Fels’s fellowship ten years ago enabled her to found On the Rise, a transitional women’s shelter in Boston, of which she is now the executive director. “For me the Stride Rite was as much an investment in me as it was in the project. It’s as much about someone’s history of public service at Harvard...