Fed Event: Voices of Social Change Presents: Triple Threats: Homelessness, Healthcare, and Oppression - Nov 16, 2011 at 5:30pm

Triple Threats: Homelessness, Healthcare, and Oppression
A Dialogue about Advocacy, Organizing, and Creating Change

Led by Adam Schneider from Healthcare for the Homeless

Wednesday, November 16, 2011
5:30pm – 7:00pm
Juan Ramón Jiménez Room, The Stamp

At least 3,000 people will experience homelessness on any given night in Baltimore – more than 30,000 over the course of a year. Statewide, more than 50,000 Marylanders are homeless annually.

The experience of homelessness causes health problems, exacerbates existing illnesses, and seriously complicates treatment. People who are homeless are sicker and die earlier than those who are housed. People experiencing homelessness are three-to-four times more likely to die prematurely than their housed counterparts.

What can be done?

Adam Schneider is Coordinator of Community Relations at Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) in Baltimore, where he works on state and local public policy and community initiatives related to issues of health and homelessness. Adam has been a lead organizer of several grassroots initiatives undertaken by people experiencing homelessness, and has worked as a case manager for people experiencing homelessness. Adam has developed and facilitated experiential community-learning initiatives in Baltimore and in Central Appalachia. In addition to his work at HCH, Adam teaches courses on philosophy, social theory and public policy at several area colleges and universities. He was arrested as part of the “Baucus 8” for disruption of Congress during the Senate Finance Committee’s hearings on health reform in May 2009.

Voices of Social Change invites you to join Adam in exploring the complexities of homeless, healthcare, policy, advocacy, and democracy in organizing.