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Amy Farah Weiss is the founder and director of Saint Francis Challenge, a nonprofit launched in San Francisco in 2015 that works to end street homelessness and build a movement of resident stewardship through the co-creation of “BEST Places” — communities of Belonging, Essential Needs, Shared Agreements, and Teamwork.
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Amy earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz in the late ’90s and later a master’s degree in Organizational Development from San Francisco State. She now lives in New Mexico, where she leads a Resident Steward Trainee pilot at supported housing and shelter sites working in partnership with the City of Santa Fe.
Links
Saintfrancischallenge.org
Join us every Monday at 10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern for the Solid Ground Live stream. Come join our Solid Ground peer support and discussion groups at sground.substack.com And you can join our locals community at solidground.locals.com
Find us on Twitter: @jleslieelliott @dissidentdelite
Find more from Christine Sefein-Wolk at youtube.com/@ctapodcast which she co-hosts.
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If you would like to contact me, my website is: theradicalcenterconsulting.com and I am on twitter @JLeslieElliott
And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following (thank you very much!):
paypal.me/jleslieelliott
buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter
patreon.com/theradicalcenter
Amy Farah Weiss is the founder and director of Saint Francis Challenge, a nonprofit launched in San Francisco in 2015 that works to end street homelessness and build a movement of resident stewardship through the co-creation of “BEST Places” — communities of Belonging, Essential Needs, Shared Agreements, and Teamwork.
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Amy earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz in the late ’90s and later a master’s degree in Organizational Development from San Francisco State. She now lives in New Mexico, where she leads a Resident Steward Trainee pilot at supported housing and shelter sites working in partnership with the City of Santa Fe.
Links
Saintfrancischallenge.org
Join us every Monday at 10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern for the Solid Ground Live stream. Come join our Solid Ground peer support and discussion groups at sground.substack.com And you can join our locals community at solidground.locals.com
Find us on Twitter: @jleslieelliott @dissidentdelite
Find more from Christine Sefein-Wolk at youtube.com/@ctapodcast which she co-hosts.
_____________________________________________________________________
If you would like to contact me, my website is: theradicalcenterconsulting.com and I am on twitter @JLeslieElliott
And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my continued work in this area you can chip in at any of the following (thank you very much!):
paypal.me/jleslieelliott
buymeacoffee.com/radicalcenter
patreon.com/theradicalcenter
