Tag: Homelessness

  • Nation & World

    Blazing her own path

    For Lucy Wickings ’22, a homeless, first-gen student, it was all uphill. Next she’s looking to help others.

    4 minutes
    Lucy Wickings
  • Nation & World

    Working to help homeless in less-welcoming land

    Harvard Kennedy School grad Alena Vachnová has been using her passion and skills for ending homelessness to help the Ukrainian refugees who have sought safety in her home city of Kosice, Slovakia.

    6 minutes
    Alena Vachnova
  • Nation & World

    AI can help reduce the risk of HIV in high-risk communities

    Researchers have developed an AI system that can identify the people within a social network who can most effectively promote information about HIV prevention to their peers.

    4 minutes
    Aerial view of crowd connected by lines.
  • Nation & World

    Serving up job training

    Breaktime Cafe, started by two Harvard students, works to feed vulnerable community members.

    4 minutes
    Breaktime team in the kitchen.
  • Nation & World

    Classroom theory, community action

    Urban Health and Community Change,” a social studies course that debuted last semester, took students out of the classroom and into the Somerville community to roll up their sleeves and take practical action to help the less advantaged.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    McCawley combats homelessness

    Andrew McCawley, president and CEO of the New England Center for Homeless Veterans, describes the steps the organization is taking to combat homelessness among U.S. veterans and how likely it is that the nation will see the complete eradication of veteran homelessness by 2016.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Keeping the faith, outdoors

    The Outdoor Church, a group founded by Harvard Divinity School graduates, and supported by current HDS students, ministers to the homeless every week during an open-air service.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘House, Home’ and the spaces between

    A new art show at the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) Penthouse Gallery not only explores concepts of house and home, but homelessness as well.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Former homeless man takes part in Harvard Business School seminar

    Ron Brummitt, who has a degree in psychology and is an ordained minister, was at Harvard in July to take part in Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management, a weeklong, HBS seminar that aids senior executives from the nonprofit sector in developing leadership strategies.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    1.8 million veterans lack health coverage

    Of the 47 million uninsured Americans, one in every eight (12.2 percent) is a veteran or member of a veteran’s household, according to a study by physicians from Cambridge Health Alliance who are also Harvard Medical School researchers. The study is published in the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Approximately 1.8…

    3 minutes