Trauma-Informed Care with The People Experiencing Homelessness Project
Recorded: April 2023
A recording of this webinar will be available 4/28
Webinar Moderator:
Kris Kington Barker – INELDA Director of Care Provider Programs and Outreach
Webinar Guest:
Kaki Marshall | Public Servant and System Changer
Raven Drake | Ambassador program manager from Street Roots, A Homeless Advocacy Group
Recorded: April 2023
This webinar is available to all members as part of membership benefits.
A recording of this webinar will be made available 4/28
Webinar Moderator:
Kris Kington-Barker | INELDA Director of Outreach and Care Provider Programs
Webinar Guest:
Kaki Marshall-Bird | Public Servant and System Changer
Raven Drake | Ambassador program manager from Street Roots, A Homeless Advocacy Group
Listen to our conversation with public servant and system changer Kaki Marshall-Bird and Street Roots representative, ambassador program manager Raven Drake. Learn more about the The People Experiencing Homelessness Project and informed practice in harm reduction and trauma-informed care. This webinar will be moderated by Kris-Kington Barker, director of outreach and care provider programs.
INELDA has committed to raising $10,000 in 2023 for The People Experiencing Homelessness Project (PEH Project). This is a multi-year campaign. Please consider making a donation today.
The People Experiencing Homelessness Project | End-of-Life Care Curriculum was created to develop a model around supporting the unhoused and build curriculum around harm reduction and trauma-informed care at end-of-life. Despite more than one-third of dying Americans using hospice care, there is no current data on how many individuals experiencing homelessness have access to it.
Hospice care is available in the United States to patients of any age with any terminal prognosis who are medically certified to have less than six months to live. Most providers are only able to deliver care in a patient’s home or in a designated facility, such as a nursing home, hospital unit.
Despite the lack of information regarding this population’s ability to access care, providers and consumers alike across the U.S. echo the need for attention to the barriers this population faces in accessing this type of end-of-life care.
INELDA is partnering with the following organizations to understand the barriers PEH face when accessing end-of-life care and developing resources to address unmet needs.
- Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency,
- Homeless Youth Alliance,
- International Network of Street Papers,
- National Harm Reduction Coalition,
- National Health Care for the Homeless Council,
- SAMHSA/Soar Works,
- Street Roots,
- TGI Justice
Speaker Bios:
Kaki Marshall-Bird
Kaki (They/Them) brings lived experience as a youth experiencing homelessness, felony convictions, navigation of social services as a gender-nonconforming survivor of trafficking, and a 15-year track record of nonprofit management with successful development and implementation of programs, budgets, policies, and legislation developed in partnership with historically underserved communities. Kaki’s first decade of public service was in peer-led program development and management. They managed and developed programs for residential services supporting people living with substance use support needs, housing support needs, mental health needs, and reentry barriers related to the criminal injustice system.
Kaki holds a masters degree in public policy and has four years of experience working in regional government focusing on abolitionist solutions to homelessness, housing insecurity, and strategies to support power and voice for people historically excluded from policy development. Kaki has worked to advance Black Feminist Frameworks for Abolition and Racial Justice while working for the Office of Equity and Human Rights at The City of Portland, the Multnomah County Local Public Safety Coordinating Council, The San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, PolicyLink and now at the State of Oregon Department of Education.
Kaki has recently helped to create a Non-Profit in the Pacific Northwest called Tainable that is supporting the efforts of the Black Food Sovereignty Coalition to build Black and Indigenous farms using regenerative agriculture techniques. Kaki welcomes invitations to explore radical abolitionist collaborations.
Raven Drake
Raven moved to Portland, Oregon, in December of 2019 to work with Street Roots as a vendor, and in March 2020 developed and ran their coronavirus action team. After cowriting a proposal to support sanctioned camps for people experiencing homelessness with Kaia Sand, Raven joined the C(3)PO Coalition and became the group’s medical program coordinator. Raven stepped down as the coordinator to return to Street Roots as the ambassador program manager in late September 2020.
For the last three years, she has been focused on outreach and advocacy work around Oregon. Raven spends most of her free time writing and planning new ways to advocate for those living on the streets when she is not spending every minute she can with her beautiful daughter, Aalyah. As someone who lived through houselessness herself, she holds a passion for this work. It is her passion to make a difference by making communication more accessible for all.
The recording of this April 2023 webinar has been made available to all members as part of your INELDA membership benefits. Non-members who purchased access to this webinar may also view the recording.