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For most, living in a shelter or on the street is the last resort. As a result, the majority of people experiencing homelessness are “defined out” of accessing aid. In fact, the Department of Housing and Urban Development doesn’t even consider them homeless. Are we obscuring an exponentially larger looming crisis? On this bonus episode Host Jesse Betend and StreetWise Magazine Senior Editor Suzanne Hanney, host a live panel to discuss these and other issue’s behind the series.  Featuring: Dr. Molly Brown, Assistant Professor of Clinical-Community Psychology and Director of the Homelessness Advocacy, Research, and Collaboration Lab at DePaul University;  Erin Ryan. Senior Vice President of Operations at The Night Ministry, a social services organization that works with many of Chicago’s most vulnerable homeless citizens;  And Lee and Paula, who are both Streetwise Magazine Vendors who are currently experiencing homelessness.    Sources:  The Chicago Coalition for the Homeless’ Estimate of Chicago Homelessness Report --  https://www.chicagohomeless.org/new-analysis-shows-76998-chicagoans-impacted-by-homelessness/ DePaul’s HARC Lab -- https://harclab.com/publications/ The Night Ministry -- https://www.thenightministry.org/support-us?gclid=CjwKCAjwv_iEBhASEiwARoemvOuEzrez6RUNyb4BVFGKQ-JpIlmDZ1PPfbBIaYI6_LU17Q1WQHKHahoC-pQQAvD_BwE StreetWise -- https://www.streetwise.org/

Angelica meets Anthony.  

A fateful encounter in Arizona changes everything.

On the run.

Angelica is headed to prison, but what does that mean for her son, Anthony?   

There was someone who could’ve prevented a lot of what was going wrong in Angelica’s life. This week: who they were and why they didn’t.

Angelica moves in with the queen-pin of an Iowa drug ring.

Angelica decides the quickest way to get help is to lie.

Fourteen places, two-toothless threats, one diary and countless family secrets. How does a 12-year-old become homeless, anyway?    

Angelica first became homeless at the age of 12, but she never lived on the street. Prisons. Vegas condos. The living room of an Iowa drug queen-pin, and an inpatient facility for adolescents. This is WHERE I STAY.   From Rivet + StreetWise