StreetSense Mission & Information
The mission of the new publication StreetSense is to educate and inform homeless people, community members, researchers, and social service professionals about issues facing homeless persons and resources available to help them. There is a huge need for information helpful to homeless persons – and to those who endeavor to assist them.
StreetSense considers a wide range of perspectives. StreetSense is candid and real. All persons working on StreetSense are devoted to providing essential and timely information not being covered by more traditional publications – and by those masquerading as community newspapers supposedly aimed at helping the homeless.
The blog entries include profiles of homeless persons and of people helping them, interviews with authors and researchers, book reviews, essays, results of surveys, and literature reviews. The entries include additional formats such as extended definitions and descriptions of health, legal, and moral issues facing the homeless. The entries also provide many resources to meet homeless persons’ needs, such as food, shelter, counseling, and the information necessary for daily survival but which is often hard to locate for new homeless persons because so much essential info is transmitted by word of mouth.
StreetSense is funded by blog subscriptions, contributions, and donations. The blog staff members are interested in forming partnerships with a variety of social service, government, religious, and philanthropic organizations.