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VOL. 19 ISSUE 16

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D.C. LAUNCHES NEW BENEFITS PORTAL Without providing full translation options

How the rollout of a new city website created another barrier for non-English speaking residents.

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The Street Sense Media Story, #MoreThanANewspaper Originally founded as a street newspaper in 2003, Street Sense Media has evolved into a multimedia center using a range of creative platforms to spotlight solutions to homelessness and empower people in need. The men and women

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AT A GLANCE

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The challenges of pet ownership for people experiencing homelessness KAELA ROEDER Deputy Editor

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NEWS

Q&A with Sarah Gochenaur from New Endeavors for ASHLEIGH FIELDS Editorial Intern

a suitcase, she arrived in the city as an AmeriCorps volunteer with almost nothing. assumed the role as director of development and communications that provides housing and case management support to senior

above and beyond for the client. I’ve never seen an organization who are now in college and still connected with their case manager drove a client to NYC to be with their family after These lifelong relationships budded from the staff’s ability to listen, understand and connect. Gochenaur’s goal is simply Her hope is to do this by opening the door for more honest conversations so people can find the empathy to relate.

and present in addition to her future aspirations.

What are some new developments that the NEW organization has been working on?

Sarah Gochenaur. Photo courtesy of Sarah Gochenaur.

offers structure and support in apartments for 15 women aged 55 and older, most of whom have a chronic illness and have been without stable housing for many years.

In purchasing the property, we are respecting Tom Knoll’s

With so much uncertainty, what resources were helpful in getting you acclimated to the city?

homelessness. By promoting the results of this campaign having a degree impacted my job opportunities and the way I has been a meaningful way to engage our community in the

are so many great, small organizations in the city that need enrolled at University of Maryland Global Campus where I’m to listen to my neighbors and advocate for them.

Can you speak to your educational background and what you are studying? How will you use your degree to help further your service work?

In what ways were you able to unite with the community when you started working in the non-profit sector?

As a nonprofit professional, I learned to separate

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Sarah Gochenaur poses alongside fellow NEW staffmembers . Photo courtesy of Sarah Gochenaur.

for an outside person to come into a community and assume

What projects are you looking to venture into as the Director of Development and Communications?

alongside the community to collaborate on solutions. It’s why I

I can be for our staff and clients.

What experiences have you had that help you understand the demographic you’re serving?

I grew up in a household where times were often lean. My

forward to growing our community of individual the generosity of people who As a small organization, each dollar goes a long way to help us provide housing and supportive services. social media to share stories of our clients and staff. You can find us on Instagram, also post updates about

clients. I’ve never been a woman of color and I’ve never been

write to our ladies, especially

our senior women. It’s a great way to build connections during these chilly days indoors.

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NEWS

options

Screenshot of District Direct portal. Screenshot by Will Schick.

BY ANNEMARIE CUCCIA Reporter, Street Sense Media & The DC Line

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least Spanish and Amharic. government’s new benefits app and online portal, because it is not fully available in any language

facing a new barrier to obtaining benefits — counter to the rationale residents in need of assistance.

Lee, an attorney at Bread for the City, filed a language access complaint

these recurring problems.

The previous benefits portal, released in 2020, also did not initially the app, even if a device is set to use another language, only parts of the portal are translated, and the amount and quality of translation can vary depending on the particular language.

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A side by side comparison of the District Direct mobile app on a iPhone programmed to Spanish and an Android phone programmed in English. Photo by Kaela Roeder.

The portal isn’t the only source of this frustration. Unable to apply Valentine, director of communications, wrote in an email to Street Sense the online portal into Spanish and Amharic. According to Valentine, the translation for the website is done and the updated version should be

some have felt forced to pay for their own interpreter or relied on a applications or to apply in person, neither of which advocates say is a realistic option.

These aren’t just inefficiencies or inconveniences, McKay said.

Nina McKay is a legal assistant coordinator at Bread for the City.

and Amharic translations had been successfully incorporated by portal successfully translated on their phones, so she’s helping them options means people trying to access benefits lose control over the process, even if their application is eventually submitted. That in itself would not have been able to apply for benefits at all. benefit applications and renewals in the most accessible ways possible to include language accessibility as well as utilization of technologies

become available, they have to find other ways to apply for benefits, which can delay access, advocates say.

she said, her clients have been told no staff is available to sit with them — and in some cases that the service center does not accept paper applications at all. based and civil rights organizations — has also encountered this

and more reports of people feeling frustrated, wanting to file complaints

This article was co-published with The DC Line.

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NEWS

Meet the new DCHA Commissioner Janet Parker

BY ANNEMARIE CUCCIA Staff Reporter, Street Sense Media & The DC Line

Janet Parker and her mobility service dog. Photo courtesy of Janet Parker.

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housing and various rental subsidies in the

commissioners. The elections had been delayed due to the pandemic, with the current representatives remaining on the board as holdovers.

The three resident commissioners are supposed to represent

for the other seat, which represents residents of family housing.

for April 1.

attended. The following interview, from that forum, has been edited for length and clarity. for residents living in nursing homes. She is an advocate for independent living and has been trained in critical emergency

Why are you running?

Control and Prevention and the Northwest Center for Public contracts, and oversees the quality of service residents receive.

The person representing seniors and people with disabilities in public housing.

properties that house seniors and people with disabilities. through the end of March or until a successor was seated.

Antonio Taliaferro. Taliaferro allegedly abused his authority

in housing issues because it impacts me as well as the people around me.

Tenants are most impacted, and they need a voice. And decisions should always be made with their voice. And not

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the construction industry. It’s actually to provide affordable

What are the top three things you would like to work to change at DCHA?

What sorts of things are you looking to address in your role as a commissioner? in housing. They can have a caregiver in their home to help

whether there are bars in bathrooms, whether the doors can

groceries or being able to interact with the community. If you can’t get in and out of the bathtub on your own and no one is there to help you, your home ends up not being a nice place

Can I get through them and get my service dog through them before they slam shut on me?

I also have seen some good programs coming into the ward seems to do a different thing — so sometimes they get complete meals, sometimes they’re just having fresh groceries

that are in poor repair. They need repair and rejuvenation.

And when you try to do that, you have three choices: You can either move everyone out, and renovate the building, or you can tear the building completely down and just try to relocate everybody permanently, or you can try to do construction with people still living in the building and move them around from apartment to apartment. All of these pose problems for the tenants — it’s not that they don’t want to have the plumbing removed, the vent painted over so it’s not a danger. They want that happening. But when you start doing this construction problems already, this is a concern.

to happen.

It’s also really important to understand we are in the middle of a pandemic. In the 16 buildings that I would represent, they don’t have as much access to medical resources; they may not have as much access to community or family help. It’s really crucial that we be aware of that and provide necessary resources in terms of infection control, personal protective people safe.

How do you want DCHA to create more affordable housing?

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You always have more desires to use the money than you

You ran for the board before, yes?

generate income versus our real mission to provide housing, especially for those that need the deep cut to their housing that we have in the past increased housing for the middle class

the position for 10 years.

Given your experience in advocating for people experiencing homelessness, what role do you think DCHA has in addressing the issue of homelessness?

Is there anything else you want to add?

I’m one person — I’m only one vote; I can’t change everything just getting on the board. I’m going to be outvoted on every vote unless I can convince others to my way of

other human rights advocates along with the U.S. secretary

people off the street and get them to housing.

It is very hard to provide any social services to a person who

happening and what the perception of the issues is and bring those to the attention of the staff and to the director. There are things I can do and things I can’t do, and I will try to do my best.

This article was co-published with The DC Line.

food; it is hard to get them adequate medical care; it is hard to deal with a substance or alcohol abuse problem. Housing put their lives together without housing, so housing should

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Metro subsidies would help people — with safeguards

BY AMIA WALKER

might sell the cards for cash.

Assistance with Metro fares would help low and moderate income people, because families are struggling to pay rent

system functioning.

can live close to public transportation, and employment, so we can have opportunities to interact with others.

Amia Walker is a vendor with Street Sense Media.

Photo by Will Schick

What does DOES actually do?

BY JUSTIN J. WOOD

I hoped would be temporary. It was not. be told you had to resubmit the form. You’d submit a form and

those in need.

and unacceptable technology and access issues that result

form and learn later it couldn’t be accepted due to an error on

vulnerable residents.

I understand that the department is under stress due to the

to connect with employees and get the forms submitted and accepted.

As we approach the start of spring on the Potomac, the site is still down. The process for submitting claims is still bogged

dream big.

I propose that the council hold an open meeting dedicated to brainstorming how we approach social services. An open community meeting where we reimagine what funding for

assure you that it is to the people who rely on a few hundred

And it needs to be community driven. But we need the council’s support and leadership.

including those meant to meet basic and essential human needs.

very seriously impacted travel and events over the past two years. My company let me go with severance, which helped

delays are maddening. To be poor is to be constantly stressed. To throw further uncertainty on a person is especially frustrating. to be this way.

To put it bluntly, this city and its representatives do not seem to care one iota about poor people. It does not care about the people who are struggling to purchase food and pay rent. In

poor instead of furthering the divide, we might come up with something that could radically reshape our communities and I started submitting unemployment claims right away.

enormous wealth and resources, this is obscene.

more access to jobs and education? To provide a standard claims in November, due to the high volume of claims and failure to anticipate and prepare.

After the site malfunction, the city built a temporary upload the form. That lasted a few days before it collapsed too.

opportunities for success?

to envision a future where residents are empowered by services and not disillusioned and discouraged. I challenge the city to imagine what a truly innovative and empowering and modern and we’re still budgeting and designing our social services

Justin J. Wood is a Street Sense reader and resident of Adams Morgan.

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JUSTIN BLAKEY Artist/Vendor

I once thought of true love; my entire vibrations turned glad...

ever be sincere and confident in their actions?

As for myself, I find comfort within the consciousness. more than Spirit of Conscious Connectivity’, has made me submissive to the will...his will.

our devils?

bags.

strangers wrestling with sleep in their beds? Under the authority of

mirror of trash...

If the mind controls the body...then is it the thought which carries the mind? A woman told me years ago that I’ll never be able to control my thoughts. I instantly thought of my dreams and humbly agreed. It is in that state of sleep that we are in complete submission to the omnipresent master. In every way I’m powerless. So, I pondered, if man is not in absolute possession of his or her own thoughts...then how could one

through the best and leave the rest behind...

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intentions to the most right...however, the mind is just one aspect of

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theater.

Changing scenarios, spontaneous and independent.

No one would even believe us; Unless they are believers, And true believers believe in the things that they can’t see;

Authentic as you could happen without you.

From without…

deserved

People plan to win

People plan to research

with me; No one who ever believes us; Unless they are believers And that’s just my belief…

People plan to achieve People plan for their futures But one thing people don’t plan to do is FAIL.

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Raise your bar high in 2022

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tea and a conversation?

In celebration of Women’s History Month

industries: business, entertainment, sports, academia, law, politics, education, the nonprofit sector and government.

try to relegate us to subservient roles. Some people and believe that we have no other human talents while ignoring our real intellect and our capacity to thrive independently.

all the qualities to succeed but you must believe it. You are all that and a bag of chips and dip on the side. Go and be a winner! Never give up!

months. How do you see your glass half empty or half

Ladies, you have so much inside of you, let’s open the door this month of March to new conversations, new ideas and new perspectives. Be open to learn — even from a child — sometimes, God puts wisdom in a baby’s mouth to confound the wise. Ladies, let’s learn how to be our own cheerleaders and supporters. Let’s have an open mind.

Ladies, you have so much to offer this earth. Tap into your passion what do you enjoy doing that you can do alone if you don’t get paid?

you have lost.

Listen, we need positive spirits on the earth. Please ladies, let’s practice positivity and let others feel that individuality. Let’s soar to new heights. Love yourself.

need your positivity and your smile.

Keep smiling, there are better days ahead and from

girl! qualities can you be honing now to attract the person

Beautiful morning REGGIE JONES Artist/Vendor

all that is going on here, at these times in all we face. As we push towards the future of it being a better one, we would hope

You can’t let go REDBOOK MANGO Artist/Vendor

You can’t let go You’re trapped inside your mind cause you live in the ghetto

Victory is ours Active testimony so I can handle business Victory is glory, and my story is my vision

I hold my breath

First you get the money, Then you get the power There’s no competition Competition we devour I’m out here grinding to my 25th hour

A soft sound said just come to me You can climb to the top

Now in retrospect, your intellect The feeling’s mutual I could paint a clearer picture But we love what we’re used to Familiar faces, lost dreams Ain’t always what is seems

Cause everything you see Ain’t always what it seems

Victory succeeding after everything you been through Now everything that’s wrong feels right I’m proof I’m living And if I wasn’t I wouldn’t have been blessed this far

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Fair is fair even when you’re being unfair

BY LEVESTER GREEN Artist/Vendor

cheated him for barring him from competing!

I feel the same way about my rap career. I didn’t

Carolina State University school radio station who broadcasted on the FM side, which is rare for school radio stations.

Anyhow, I was on and off semesters from South Carolina State University in an attempt to meet the my return to school as my advisor had assured me. I didn’t deceive myself! My goal, as I had envisioned in my Benjamin Stoddard Middle School essay paper

an on air radio personality and I eventually achieved

to secure a promising job position and further my communications education upon moving on from

Wild Visions!

BY MARCUS MCCALL Artist/Vendor

There are times where I have visions or nightmares mother get stabbed and my grandmother die in her bed from cancer. The crazy part of this dream is that I am my current age and mindset. I hope I’m not the

grandmother to come help my mother with her stab wounds, she was dead in her bed. murder and drugs and I was a part of the party in

In this dream, there are people who are already stabbed her, robbed my mother for her product. friends and good people I met in real life. It’s crazy because everyone was at a good point in their lives. hear me. It was real in this dream. The grim reaper

DANIEL BALL Artist/Vendor

What I noticed FREDERIC JOHN Artist/Vendor

a brew; needed to use the facilities– diabetic, you see.

To all my customers

BY GERALD ANDERSON Artist/Vendor

Good morning to all my customers. I do be coming out selling papers in my with the paper. and blessed day.

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Samaritan Ministry 202-722-2280 // 1516 Hamilton St., NW 202-889-7702 // 1345 U St., SE samaritanministry.org

Loaves & Fishes // 202-232-0900 1525 Newton St., NW

Christ House // 202-328-1100 1717 Columbia Rd., NW christhouse.org

Martha’s Table // 202-328-6608 marthastable.org

Cafeteria Attendant Park Hyatt Washington // 1201 24th St. NW

Full-time/Part-time // Flexible availabilty Sasha Bruce Youthwork // 202-675-9340 741 8th St., SE sashabruce.org

culinary position. This is a great opportunity to get a start with Hyatt’s culinary department.

So Others Might Eat (SOME) // 202-797-8806 71 O St., NW some.org

2375 Elvans Road SE

2204 Martin Luther King Ave. SE

Miriam’s Kitchen // 202-452-8926 2401 Virginia Ave., NW miriamskitchen.org

My Sister’s Place // 202-529-5991 (24-hr hotline) mysistersplacedc.org Community of Hope // 202-232-7356 communityofhopedc.org

Covenant House Washington 202-610-9600 // 2001 Mississippi Ave., SE covenanthousedc.org

N Street Village // 202-939-2060 1333 N St., NW nstreetvillage.org

New York Avenue Shelter // 202-832-2359 1355-57 New York Ave., NE D.C. Coalition for the Homeless 202-347-8870 // 1234 Massachusetts Ave., NW dccfh.org

Father McKenna Center // 202-842-1112 19 Eye St., NW fathermckennacenter.org

REQUIRED: Basic communication skills and the ability to lift and carry moderate weight.

APPLY: https://tinyurl.com/ CafeteriaAttendantDC

Mailroom Clerk Canon Business Process Services, Inc. // 900

St. Luke’s Mission Center // 202-333-4949 3655 Calvert St., NW stlukesmissioncenter.org

19th St NW

Canon is looking for a full time/permanent

Thrive DC // 202-737-9311 1525 Newton St., NW thrivedc.org

mailroom clerk to prepare mail, packages, and pouches for distribution.

REQUIRED: All candidates must be fully vaccinated.

Unity Health Care 3020 14th St., NW // unityhealthcare.org - Healthcare for the Homeless Health Center: 202-508-0500 - Community Health Centers: 202-469-4699 1

1 4 765 Kenilworth 3020

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APPLY: https://tinyurl.com/MailroomClerkDC

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Community Family Life Services 202-347-0511 // 305 E St., NW

JOB BOARD

Full-time // 11am-8pm, Monday-Friday

Charlie’s Place // 202-232-3066 1830 Connecticut Ave., NW charliesplacedc.org

Church of the Pilgrims // 202-387-6612 2201 P St., NW food (1-1:30 on Sundays only) churchofthepilgrims.org/outreach

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Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless 1200 U St., NW // 202-328-5500 legalclinic.org

Dishwasher BarTaco // 1025 5th St NW

Full-time // $16 per hour BarTaco are looking for a dishwasher, who will will be maintain cleanliness and sanitation of all cutlery, glassware, food machines, etc. Further, the dishwasher maintain the dishwashing station in a pristine and safe manner.

REQUIRED: Requires the employee to sit, climb, stoop, kneel, must be able to spend long periods of being on their feet and must be able to lift up to 10 pounds and/or move objects up to 25 pounds.

APPLY: https://tinyurl.com/DishwasherDC

The Welcome Table // 202-347-2635 1317 G St., NW. epiphanydc.org/thewelcometable

Whitman-Walker Health 1701 14th St., NW // 202-745-7000 2301 MLK Jr. Ave., SE // 202-797-3567 whitman-walker.org

Patricia Handy Place for Women 202-733-5378 // 810 5th St., NW

Samaritan Inns // 202-667-8831 2523 14th St., NW samaritaninns.org

For further information and listings, gs, visit our online service guide at StreetSenseMedia.org/service-guide

Hiring? Send your job postings to editor@StreetSenseMedia.org

Memories and thoughts about my dad SYBIL TAYLOR Artist/Vendor

I can’t believe it has been seven years since the passing of my dad on Feb. 20, 2015. He is thought about highly and greatly by me and my family. He is honored and treasured with love.

love for him.

where he is full of laughter and joy with no suffering, no pain and no cancer..

The cemetery is always very peaceful and quiet with birds chirping away while a crisp fresh morning breeze blows at my mom’s house with music, pizza, our KFC dinner, our thoughts and memories of dad.

My father was the best at all he did in his life. At 7 years Sybil Taylor and her father Henry Taylor. Photo courtesy of Sybil Taylor.

High School.

He and my mom dated each other, and as true love rose between them, he got engaged with my mom. He proposed

He servedin the US Army. He was a sergeant in charge. He was the best at what he did. He had us, me, my two sisters

everywhere.

and husband to my mother. went to his doctor. That’s when he discovered he had developed colon cancer. His life was over. It was stage four. He was very upset. I had never seen my father cry. But to us, the fact that he was going to die, this pain hurt us so badly.

one day.

Playlist songs: “Abraham, Martin and John” by Marvin Gaye “Dream Come True” by The Temptations “Bernadette” by The Four Tops “Sad Tomorrow” by Marvin Gaye

day he was gone.

up in their wings to heaven. He was a great father, grandfather,

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