In 2019, the National HCH Council interviewed clinicians, administrators, and consumers of homeless health care to create the first national collection of oral histories of people who have died while experiencing homelessness. These stories illuminate the perspectives and personalities of people who have died without housing. Honoring those we have lostĮach year, we lose our friends and colleagues to homelessness. Please use it to borrow ideas from others and to help create a moving and powerful local event.įor help in organizing your local Homeless Person’s Memorial Day or to let us know about your event, please contact Katherine Cavanaugh, the Council’s Consumer Advocate, or the National Coalition for the Homeless. In it you will find guidelines for planning these events, sample documents, and suggestions for addressing policy issues related to homeless deaths.
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These events honor those who have paid the ultimate price for our collective failure to adequately address homelessness, and often include calls to address the systemic causes of tragically avoidable deaths.Ī succinct Organizing Manual for HPMD is now available. They are often held outdoors, sometimes – fittingly – in the bitter cold.
LINK Local Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day EventsĮach Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day event is unique to its community, but the events often include readings of names, candles, prayers, personal remembrances, marches, and moments of silence.
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