Championing Social Justice through Social Work
“What really drove my passion in social work school was the links that I found between the child welfare system, the residential facility...
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Jimena Chavez
- Feb 1
- 4 min
Adopting a Racial Equity Lens to Address Homelessness
The increase in rates of homelessness in the past four years has proven that homelessness is not only a social or economic issue, but one...
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Giullia Caldeira
- Jan 12
- 3 min
How the Justice System Reinforces the Homelessness Cycle Through Mass Incarceration
The United States population is approximately 330 million people, representing 5% of the world’s occupants. However, the so-called Land...
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Sam Goodman
- Nov 10, 2022
- 4 min
Youth Homelessness Awareness Month: Challenging Harmful Stereotypes With Lived Experiences
When you think of homelessness, what comes to mind? Many think of people sleeping on the street, or individuals walking by cars asking...
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April Tate
- Oct 26, 2022
- 7 min
Hotels: A Congregate Shelter & Housing Shortage Solution?
Housing Shortage in Boston & Beyond In 2022, Boston was ranked fourth in cities facing the worst housing shortages and fourteenth in a...
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Blake Noyes
- Sep 26, 2022
- 3 min
Back to School: The Link Between School, Employment, and Homelessness
Every Fall, the start of a new school year signals a shift in daily life for all of us. For students, it means leaving behind a life of...
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Jacob Landau
- Aug 25, 2022
- 3 min
Building Job Security: How Transitional Employment Facilitates Ending Young Adult Homelessness
“More often than not, homeless people become homeless through circumstances that they can’t control…we’re so attached to the idea that it...
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Sam Goodman
- Jul 27, 2022
- 2 min
Take Action: How You Can Help The Unhoused During Heat Wave Emergencies
As we enter the hot months of summer, many of us retreat to the comfort of our homes, protected from the sun and often cooled by fans and...
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Breaktime
- Jul 1, 2022
- 3 min
How the Overturning of Roe vs. Wade will affect People Experiencing Homelessness
On June 24, 2022, in the middle of Breaktime’s Launchpad graduation, a shadow fell over our office, as the graduation audience looked...
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Jacob Landau
- May 31, 2022
- 3 min
The Cycle of Mental Health: Examining the Intersection of Homelessness, Covid-19, & Mental Illness
Photo by Isaac Quesada on Unsplash Earlier this year, hospitals were having a crisis. With more young adults seeking care for mental...
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Hope Pollard
- Apr 22, 2022
- 4 min
Implications of Climate Change on Housing Insecure and Financially Insecure Communities
Every year, disasters such as hurricanes, floods, tornados, wildfires, landslides, and beyond ravage communities across the United...
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Sam Goodman
- Mar 24, 2022
- 4 min
Homelessness: The Overlooked Public Health Crisis
The term “public health crisis” has taken on a whole new meaning in the past few years. When prompted to think about a public health...
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Jacob Landau
- Feb 9, 2022
- 3 min
Black History Month: Redlining and Homelessness
Today, over 500,000 people experience homelessness in the United States on a given night. Most of these people are Black and more...
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Jimena Chavez
- Jan 11, 2022
- 3 min
Remaining True to Our Mission: Breaktime’s work throughout the pandemic
The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to reflect. From “new year, new me” posts to new years resolutions, it’s a perfect time...
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Hope Pollard
- Dec 17, 2021
- 3 min
Surviving the Holidays
When many people think about the holiday season, they picture themselves surrounded by friends and family, sitting around a table full of...
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Jacob Landau
- Nov 2, 2021
- 4 min
November is National Youth Homelessness Awareness Month
Homelessness shapes lives, and our society’s engagement with those affected by housing insecurity shapes homelessness as a social...
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April Tate
- Jul 23, 2021
- 5 min
The Foster-Care-to-Homelessness Pipeline
Transitioning From State Foster Care to Adulthood Each year, 20,000-30,000 young adults nationally, including 600-1,000+ in...
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Tony Shu
- Jul 6, 2021
- 7 min
Op-Ed: A Letter to Myself: Lessons From Three Years of Breaktime
About three years ago, as a freshman at Harvard University and just days after founding Breaktime with Connor, I wrote a letter to my...
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Emma MacKenzie
- Jun 24, 2021
- 5 min
‘Costing Us All’: The Troubling Prevalence of LGBTQ Young Adult Homelessness
June is Pride Month—that time of year to commemorate the history, challenges, and contributions of the LGBTQ community. As we celebrate...
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Aaron Lai
- May 28, 2021
- 4 min
The ‘Crushing’ Cycle of Homelessness and Mental Illness
When Janet Smith, an alumna of Breaktime, speaks about her past experience with homelessness, she describes a personal battle complicated...
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