Published on October 15, 2019
The Doorway Project, a cross-campus and community-engaged project under Urban@UW’s Homelessness Research Initiative, has been busy! Check out their activities and plans for the future in their latest blog post:
Welcome to the Doorway Project blog! As a part of the new phase of the project, which we are calling Doorway Project 2.0, we will be providing quarterly blog updates on how the project is going, what we are currently working on, and what our goals are for the upcoming next few months. With that, let’s get started on catching you up on what’s been happening with us!
As you may know, this last Summer saw the leadership handoff of the Doorway Project from Dr. Josephine Ensign to Dr. Seema Clifasefi, who is now the current Primary Investigator (PI) of the Doorway Project. The first two years of the project that were overseen by Dr. Ensign were nothing short of a success, as we pushed forward the conversation around youth and young adult homelessness both in the University District community as well as on the University of Washington campus. Instead of being an issue that is taken as something we should accept, Dr. Ensign led the way in rewriting the public narrative that youth and young adult homelessness is not only something that is unfortunate, but that it is something we can tackle with new and innovative solutions that center the voices of those most impacted, the youth and young adults.
Through five community focus groups, seven pop-up cafes, two community town halls and over twenty-five individual interviews, we learned what it is that members from all walks of the U District community see as important in addressing this topic. In addition, we’ve worked to bridge the communication gap between the dedicated youth and young adults service providers and those who are working to address homelessness through their research on the UW campus. By building these relationships over the past two years, we’ve formed a foundation to launch into the next phase: Doorway Project 2.0
Continue reading at the Doorway Project.
Originally written by Noah Weatherton for the Doorway Project.