If we can understand the roots of homelessness in our region and tell Los Angeles’s homelessness story, we can build understanding, awareness, and ultimately the collective power we need to invest in solving homelessness.

This three-part workshop series brings together those working on homelessness in Los Angeles’s public sector. This training is for you if you are working on ending homelessness in a public office or a City or County agency in the Greater Los Angeles area. We will dig into the ways we talk about homelessness and its root causes, so we can work together to address them.

At the first two workshops led by Felicia Perez, participants will…

• Explore and unpack story-based strategy and narrative thinking

• Learn how to apply a narrative power analysis

• Get access to simple and effective storytelling and framing methods

• Prototype creative narrative interventions

Thursday, February 24, 3-4:30 pm

• The first workshop will focus on introducing participants to the practice of in-depth analysis of story and power in the context of the current narratives around homelessness.

Thursday, March 10, 3-4:30 pm

• The second workshop will focus on exploring and developing alternative narrative practices and concrete tactics that can be deployed immediately.

Thursday, March 24, 3-4:30 pm

• At the third workshop, SJPLA’s Racial Equity in Homelessness Fellows will join us as we use Equity Meet Design’s Problem with Problem’s framework to explore the problems at the root of LA’s homelessness crisis.

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Eligible registrants:

• Work in Los Angeles’s public sector (at a city or county agency, an elected official’s office, municipal)

• Can attend all three sessions (via zoom)

  • Thursday, February 24, 3-4:30 pm

  • Thursday, March 10, 3-4:30 pm

  • Thursday, March 24, 3-4:30 pm

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Presenters

Felicia T Perez (she/they/elles)

Born and raised in Southern California, Felicia T Perez is an educator, author, public speaker and audio storytelling producer. She most recently produced the “Health and Climate Solutions Oral Storytelling Project.” She is the host and creator of the “Been There, Done That: Pandemic Podcast,” and she is currently the Head of Memes at TaskForce.

LJ Amsterdam (she/her)

creates opportunities for folks to take courageous action. A trainer, organizer, and dancer, she wants us to use our bodies to get free. She is currently a Collective Member of Mayday Space, a grassroots organizing hub in Brooklyn, where she is leading the process to develop Mayday into a community land trust. She is also Chair of the Board of Directors of About Face: Veterans Against the War and a Lead Trainer for the Center for Story-based Strategy.

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