Restorers: A Water Street Podcast

What can lead people to be on the street varies from person to person.  It can be as personal as a lack of relational equity or encountering a major health event, or it could be more systemic, such as the inability to find affordable housing or clear an eviction record.  In this episode, we'll explore those roots and others, and uncover how they lead someone to be on the street. We'll al...

Typically emergency shelter consists of inviting someone in during the afternoon, giving them a place to stay and a meal, and then releasing them back on the streets the following morning.  We examine this model and how some missions, including ours, are changing to create greater healing and restoration among emergency shelter guests by creating pathways into residential programs (also referred t...

Stabilization is the process of gradually helping someone who is in a state of high alert and panic, to come down and recognize they are in a safe place.  This process is highly important to emergency shelters because experiencing homelessness can both aggravate and create mental health issues.  In this episode, we take a preliminary look at how to address this complicated issue. Through a convers...

Connection and relationships often play a key part in both how people fall into homelessness, and in how to help them journey out of it. In today's episode, we'll be talking with Jenn Koppel,  Director of LancoMy Home,  as well as Dan Mesher, the Day Life Coach Supervisor at Water Street Mission, to discover why relationship-driven work is so important, and the role it plays in helping m...

When individuals and families come in off the street, there’s a world behind them and a world ahead.   We’ll hear from New York Relief’s Josiah Hakin and a Water Street Life Coach (and former guest) as they discuss the importance of this first interaction.  We dig into what we often see as people come through our doors and how our Access Center is built to meet the needs of that moment.