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Josephine Ensign

@josephineensign.bsky.social

public health nurse, author of Way Home and Skid Road

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Skid Road Oral History with Charlotte Tucker Sanders, MSW Charlotte Tucker Sanders, MSW Back to basics. Back to what we know works. That is my main takeaway from my interview with social worker Charlotte Tucker Sanders. Iโ€™ve had the privilege to worโ€ฆ

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NEH has fallen now too

11.02.2025 13:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Way Home invites the U.S. to view its homelessness crisis up close Homelessness is often observed at a distance. Josephine Ensignโ€™s book invites readers to take a closer look at what they normally avoid.

Thank you, Will James and Harvard Public Health, for this astute review of my newest book. Harvard Public Health - <em>Way Home</em> invites the U.S. to view its homelessness crisis up close. harvardpublichealth.org/policy-pract...

08.02.2025 19:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Way Home invites the U.S. to view its homelessness crisis up close Homelessness is often observed at a distance. Josephine Ensignโ€™s book invites readers to take a closer look at what they normally avoid.

Thank you, Will James and Harvard Public Health, for this astute review of my newest book. Harvard Public Health - <em>Way Home</em> invites the U.S. to view its homelessness crisis up close. harvardpublichealth.org/policy-pract...

08.02.2025 19:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Can one city's solutions to homelessness offer answers elsewhere?

WAY HOME by @josephineensign.bsky.social from @hopkinspress.bsky.social Press deepens our understanding of the historical roots of homelessness and highlights innovative efforts.

OUT NOW in Europe from your favourite bookseller!

16.01.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thank you, Kelly Hanson and the fine folks at King 5 New Day Northwest for the opportunity to talk about homelessness and what works (and my new book/book launch tonight at Elliott Bay Book Company.

16.01.2025 23:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Rec 1: Skid Road by @josephineensign.bsky.social -- who has an author event for her next book Thursday! I am disappointed I don't think I can go, but maybe you should.

14.01.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Join me next Thursday, January 16, at 7 pm for my author event/book launch at Elliott Bay Book Company. I'll also be interviewed by Kelly Hanson on KING 5 New Day Northwest that morning. Emphasizing what works. @newdaynw @elliottbaybookco @hopkinspress

08.01.2025 19:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Highlights of my 2024 writing life: grandaughters cheering me on during one of my @humanitieswa workshops on homelessness; signing stacks of Way Home books at @elliottbaybookco (author event coming up on 1-16-25; and, @ubookstorereads display of my Way Home book on the Ave/U District.

04.01.2025 04:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My new narrative nonfiction book, Way Home: Journeys through Homelessness from @hopkinspress.bsky.social Stories of people surviving homelessness and the health and social policies and programs that help prevent and shorten homelessness. Photo: U Bookstore in Seattle. #homelessness #publichealth

20.12.2024 20:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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