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  • Angela Lobo (Tenant Leadership) Lakefront Supportive Housing

ABOUT

  • MIRIAM WOMEN IN ACTION
    Miriam Women in Action is the Leadership Guild of the Miriam Apartments. In pursuit of buiding internal community, Miriam leaders designed a project which would tell the story of the journey from homelessness to home, provide a meeting place where women could find common ground, and begin to build the relationships necessary to move forward together on common issues.
  • THE TENANT LEADERSHIP PROJECT
    The Tenant Leadership Project, using community organizing principles, brings Lakefront tenants together to create a strong, unified voice to represent issues of formerly homeless people. The Tenant Leadership Project works to reintegrate tenants of Lakefront’s supportive housing back into civic and community life by teaching leadership skills and focusing directly on issues that affect their lives. In learning leadership skills, tenants make important steps in developing the confidence to re-enter community life and achieve other life goals.

Acknowledgements

  • TENANT LEADERS
    Anita Alexander, Rosa Barton, Patricia Blackwood, Rosalind Collins, Sharon Davis, Josey Dorsey, Corinne Eiswert, Deborah Gaddo, Vera Johnson, Debra Little, Sherrie Rice, Geraldine Watson
  • STAFF LEADERS
    Christine Makarewicz, Angie Lobo, Ruth Groff, Anna Gonzalez Jenny Koll, Mary Harth
  • BLOG CONTRIBUTORS
    Maria Onesto, Celeste Wroblewski, Liz Cox, Marty Fitzgerald, Lisa Kuklinski, Angie Lobo

« Creating the Vision | Main | Ideas Take the Shape of Pictures »

June 23, 2004

A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words

Symbols

We reviewed the themes and ideas expressed at the last meeting.
Then we asked ourselves;

What symbols or pictures came to mind when we heard those ideas?

· A before and after picture- paint a picture of despair and loneliness
· Start out with a woman out on the streets and/or on a park bench and show her progression to the Miriam and happiness
· The Miriam is a place to help better yourself
· Show a woman going through the process of being on the streets; going through the shelters; talking to case managers; getting to the Miriam; and then in a business suit with a good job
· The KEY expresses a lot; PICTURE OF A KEY
· Have positive messages and inspiring words wrapping around a tree
· Homeless women carry the weight of the world on their backs
· Globe over her shoulder; baggage; bags; wrinkled clothing
· When you get the key the load is off; everything is lifted from you; you can stand up straight; iron your clothes
· Birds can lead the way
· Birds represent peace, freedom, and release
· There can be notes or messages along the way
· Stepping stones
· Make a story run through the picture

TITLE: Peace, Happiness, and Joy; Miriam Women-They’ve Got Class

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