Rhode Island Coaltion for the Homeless

Street Sights

Crossroads

First Step

John Joyce

Amos House

St. Johns Meal Site

Hypotermia Sanctuary

The Urban League of RI

Office of Homelessness

Housing Resources Commission

208 Prairie Ave

Harrington Hall The Overflow

Providence Intown Churches Association

Providence Rescue Mission

Mathewson Street UnitedMethodist Church

Mcauley House

GRASS ROOTS

TOP DOWN

DIRECT SERVICES

INDIRECTSERVICES

Housing Opportunities for People Eveywhere

Homeless Peoples Action Committee

hOMELESSNESSin RHODE ISLAND

STREET SIGHTS

Working under Stan and other homeless individuals devel-oping a calendar the features creative writing from people who are experiencing homelessness in Providence.

Several interviews with Elisabeth Ochs at R.I. Coalition for the Homeless gave me valuable information and con-nected me with the other homeless advocacy groups.

KEY POINTS

-Go to the shelters -Eat at the soup kitchen. -Talk to John Joyce HPAC

HPAC + HOPEST JOHNS MEAL SITE

-Founded, Organized, and Run by HPAC headed by John Joyce

-HPAC are all homeless individuals and spend their days doing outreach for other homeless in Providence.

-John has been my main advisor for insights into the homeless lifestyle.

-HOPE headed by Megan works collaboratively with HPAC

partnerships with

FIELD rESEARCH

-Meet the community

-Hang out

-Eat at the soup kitchen

-Spend an evening at the shelter

-Share your experiences

-Learn about others

-Observe

-Listen

Insights from the community

-Not having an id is the only factor that would deny you acess to Crossroads Shelter. If the beds are full you sleep on the floor.

-After 911 it is against the law for shelters to pro-vide storage.

-You Have to be out by 9 am and checked back in by 5 pm.

-You have to carry your possessions with you throughout the day.

-Many choose not to stay at the shelters because it is “degrading”

-If it’s raining you and the contents of your packs will get wet.

-Between 5 different meal sites in Providence you can eat three meals a day most days of the week.

OpportunityFor Ingenuity

Develop a pack system with people experiencing homelessness that can make the homeless experience less difficult. The product must be afford-able and could create job opportuni-ties.

How could your pack be better?

-Water Proof

-Light weight

-Durrable (over packed)

-No weak zippers

-Ability to Add on

-Tall and thin for public transportation

-Potential protection from weather

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scrap material RESEARCH + testing

-Local Material Scrap

-Local Manufacturing Cut-off

-Single Use Packageing

-Second life

bUSINESS MODEL

Local Scrap/Excess Materials

Currently Homeless Entrepreneurs

Social Responsible Product Idea

Product Manualand Training

Business Venture

Micro Loan for Production Tools

(Sewing Machine)

Production ofProduct

Sold by Local Social Responsible Retail at

$5x over production cost

$1x

$1x

Subsidized Productfor Homeless Individuals

$3x

thought process

Basic StructurePrototype 3/4 scale

In this Prototype

-$1.50 of Material

-2 hrs labor