A Generational Approach to Combating Poverty and Homelessness

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In its nearly 35 years in operation, San Francisco’s Homeless Prenatal Program, has worked with the aim of breaking the cycle of extreme poverty by helping pregnant women with health care, housing, parenting classes and other needed services for themselves and their children. It’s a testament to that mission that the non-profit’s new executive director, Shellena Eskridge, is the child of a woman helped by the program. We’ll talk with Eskridge and Martha Ryan, the founder and former executive director of the Homeless Prenatal Program, about homeless families and the unique challenges they face. Guests: Shellena Eskridge, executive director, Homeless Prenatal Program; licensed clinical social worker Martha Ryan, founder and former executive director, Homeless Prenatal Program Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.2	We can talk about homelessness in the Bay Area as if it were one big problem.
1:07.5	But the reality is that unhoused people are living through many different types of situations.
1:12.6	Today we're focusing in on one specific experience, the homeless prenatal program, which is located not far from our studio here and which has been serving pregnant
1:17.2	women in extreme poverty for more than three decades. The organization has grown to serve
1:21.7	hundreds of Bay Area families and has built a model that leads to better outcomes for children
1:26.2	and mothers. We'll be joined by the organization's founder and its new executive director
1:30.2	to talk about how homelessness has changed in our region
1:33.0	and what they've discovered has worked through years of helping people in crisis situations
1:37.5	stabilize their lives.
1:39.4	That's all coming up next after this news.
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