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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling Through the Safety Net

Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling Through the Safety Net

Ensign, Josephine

Paperback

Biographies GeneralMedical ReferencePoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1631521179
ISBN13: 9781631521171
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: Aug 9 2016
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
At the beginning of the homelessness epidemic in the 1980s, Josephine Ensign was a young, white, Southern, Christian wife, mother, and nurse running a new medical clinic for the homeless in the heart of the South. Through her work and intense relationships with patients and co-workers, her worldview was shattered, and after losing her job, family, and house, she became homeless herself. She reconstructed her life with altered views on homelessness--and on the health care system. In Catching Homelessness, Ensign reflects on how this work has changed her and how her work has changed through the experience of being homeless--providing a piercing look at the homelessness industry, nursing, and our country's health care safety net.

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