A Place To Call Home
The seeds of change are found in everyday experience. The stories of people who live in supportive housing can shed light on important issues, such as what it is like to experience homelessness or live with mental illness or a disability. Because of this, during 2019, the Supportive Housing Providers Association (SHPA) and Housing Action Illinois partnered to bring a series of five workshops to help residents of permanent supportive housing explore telling stories to make a difference. The stories in this publication grew out of the workshops, and we are grateful to everyone whose experiences are shared in these pages. Together, we can build a more understanding, compassionate world. Our thanks to the Illinois Charitable Trust Stabilization Fund for making this collaboration possible.
The seeds of change are found in everyday experience. The stories of people who live in supportive housing can shed light on important issues, such as what it is like to experience homelessness or live with mental illness or a disability. Because of this, during 2019, the Supportive Housing Providers Association (SHPA) and Housing Action Illinois partnered to bring a series of five workshops to help residents of permanent supportive housing explore telling stories to make a difference. The stories in this publication grew out of the workshops, and we are grateful to everyone whose experiences are shared in these pages. Together, we can build a more understanding, compassionate world.
Our thanks to the Illinois Charitable Trust Stabilization Fund for making this collaboration possible.
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Day one, I tried to bully her. I wanted to see where she was, you know?
But she stood up to me. And from that day, I respected her. Katie, she put
me in my place. You know, showed I was not gonna bully her.
We moved me into my place together. In December 2018, I graduated
from the Transforming Impossible
into Possible (TIP) Program, a sixweek
self-empowerment workshop.
The group opened my eyes wider.
I learned a lot from it. I realized
that the only one hurting me, was
myself. TIP helped me deal with
things and then let it go.
“I am learning
to transform
impossible into
possible.”
For five years now, Katie’s been
putting up with my ins and outs.
For five years now, I’ve had my own home. I’m thankful for my own place
where I can be my own person. Without DuPagePads I’d be lost. I would
either be in jail or back on the streets living a life of crime. Without
Katie, I would be lost. I learned to trust people again. I am learning to
transform impossible into possible.
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