Tag: dis_ability

Roof Over Your Head

"You want to know you have a place where your kids can come." This story is from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center,...
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How Did This Happen?

"That whole transition from having a nice house to being homeless – it was a shock." Welcome Project at Valparaiso University · How Did This Happen? Edited by Amanda Yonushatis. Transcript for How Did This...
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Seeing Them Make Those Discoveries

"...because they don’t have access to the language like everybody else does. They don’t get that incidental learning from just overhearing something and pairing that to their experiences." Produced by Rich Elliott Transcript...
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Living with Mental Illness

"We should all be allies to each other for mental health, and for everything else." https://youtu.be/LrPoisfEwhU Produced by Carmen Vincent Transcript for Living with Mental Illness When people say bad things about you, it's sometimes hard to let them go,...
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Terrible Things Happen

"I’m sitting in my car and I hear a crumple and next thing ya know, I’m out." Produced by Welcome Project intern Noah Sobocinski. Transcript for Terrible Things Happen Part 1 I get...
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Made Us Feel Low

"I'm not such a bad person; I just have some bad situations." This story is from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and...
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It Got to Be Too Much

“I’ve been down, believe me... I lost my possessions twice in my life.” This story is from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center,...
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Bad Things, Good People

Three audio stories from a couple's experience of family, work, health, and homelessness These stories are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel's Horn, Dayspring Women's Center, and Porter...
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Makes You Strong

"Sometimes I have meltdowns; sometimes I say, 'OK,' and go on." This story is from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel’s Horn, Dayspring Women’s Center, and Porter...
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