The Hope Matrix

Using Strategies for Hope to Fight the Homelessness Epidemic, featuring Neli Rowland of a Safe Haven

This week’s special guest on the Hope Matrix is Neli Vazquez Rowland. Neli is the Co-Founder and President of a Safe Haven (ASH), an award-winning, vertically integrated social and economic development model that rebuilds the lives of individuals impacted by poverty, substance abuse, prison reentry, and homelessness. The ASH model uses a holistic and individualized multi-disciplinary approach to offer addiction treatment, education, healthcare, job training and job placement, and supportive affordable housing development. ASH has served over 10,000 people since 1994 and is currently serving over 5,000 individuals each year. Kathryn and Neli discuss the effect of the pandemic-related lockdowns and layoffs on American homelessness and examine the helplessness and despair (the two ingredients of hopelessness) that many homeless Americans experience and how hope tools, such as Stress Skills, can be useful for these individuals to rebuild critical-thinking mindsets.

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