The AnchorED City

BTS 12 - Christmas Special: An Empress, Some Elk, a Box Office Flop, and Peace on Earth

On this special between the seasons episode we look at Anchorage’s Christmas’ past, present and future.

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Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/12/23/in-times-old-and-new-christmas-reminds-us-were-here-in-alaska-together/#

https://clarkyerrington.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/empress-theater-1916-2013/

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6814

https://www.adn.com/arts/music/2021/04/08/anchorages-first-classical-music-concert-was-a-century-ago-watch-a-reenactment-sunday/

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/49th+State+Brewing+Company%3A+renovating+and+revitalizing+an+Anchorage...-a0459889286

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A14454275A04DAA79%40NGPA-AKADN-16ED16809A4A2204%402426698-16EC93389FD91EC7%403-16EC93389FD91EC7%40?search_terms=empress%2Bchristmas&text=empress%20christmas&date_from=1915&date_to=1942&content_added=&pub%255B0%255D=14454275A04DAA79&page=4&pdate=1931-12-22

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16ED034A20612DFE@2421937-16EB5128564417FB@5-16EB5128564417FB@?search_terms

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16ECF3104A13C01F@2432175-16ECF21270AF40D6@0-16ECF21270AF40D6@?search_terms

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16ECF3104A13C01F@2432175-16EB96824E51BD28@5-16EB96824E51BD28@?search_terms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Wonderful_Life

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Its-a-Wonderful-Life

S3:E14 - The Hydra of Homelessness: So What? – Responding to the Hydra of Homelessness

In our last episode of season 3 we consider the beautiful question “So What?” in an effort to respond to the Hydra that is Homelessness.

 

Resources Used to Make This Episode:

Nicholas Wolterstorff: On the Moral Significance of Poverty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Ph-9oyoBI

Cummings, E.E., 1968, Poems, 1923-1954, Harcourt, New York, pp. 332.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2016/09/23/brother-francis-shelter-marking-35-years-of-caring-pauses-to-remember-its-beginnings/

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/02/26/remembering-alaskas-visit-from-the-pope-40-years-later/

Rocke, K. & Van Dyke, J., 2012, Geography of grace: Doing theology from below, Street Psalms Press, Tacoma. P. 77.

 

S3:E13 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Voices From Outside Anchorage w/ Sparrow Etter-Carlson, DJ Vincent & Ron Ruthruff

On this episode we talk with three experts from outside Anchorage about the hydra of homelessness. We consider creative responses, philosophy, social artistry, compassion, relationship, and the self-care practice of drag. Joining us are:

 

Sparrow Etter-Carlson (Seattle, WA):

Subregional Specialist, King County Regional Homelessness Authority

Founder, Aurora Commons – Founder S.H.E. Clinic – Founder, Sacred Streets

 

DJ Vincent (Salem, OR):

Deputy Director / South Salem Lightning Rod, Salem Leadership Foundation

 

Dr. Ron Ruthruff (Seattle, WA):

Associate Professor of Theology and Culture, The Seattle School of Theology &  Psychology

Author: The Least of These: Lessons Learned from Kids on the Street &

Closer to the Edge: Walking With Jesus for the World’s Sake

 

https://kcrha.org

https://www.facebook.com/KingCoRHA

 

https://www.auroracommons.org/

https://www.facebook.com/auroracommons 

@auroracommons

 

https://www.oursacredstreets.com/

@ sacred.streets

 

www.salemlf.org

https://www.facebook.com/SalemLeadership

@ salemleadershipfoundation

 

https://theseattleschool.edu/

https://www.facebook.com/theseattleschool

@ theseattleschool

 

https://www.facebook.com/StreetPsalmsOrg

https://www.facebook.com/StreetPsalmsOrg

@ street_psalms

 

https://nhmin.org/

https://www.facebook.com/NewhorizonsSEA

@newhorizonssea

 

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S3:E12 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Human Trafficking w/ Erin Terry

People facing homelessness are in a vulnerable situation that makes them susceptible to human trafficking. On this episode we are talking to FBI Victim Specialist, Erin Terry about human trafficking in Anchorage and Alaska.

 

@FBIAnchorage

 

#anchoredcity

 

Where can a victim of human trafficking go for help? 

People who are or believe they may be victims of human trafficking may call or text the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline at 888-373-7888. This hotline helps connect callers to anti-trafficking services in the area. The hotline is not a government entity or law enforcement or immigration authority. Those who wish to report incidents of human trafficking or suspected human trafficking may also call their local FBI office, local police department, or 9-1-1 if it is an emergency.    

 

Information about Culture Shift – Dec. 7, 2022:

https://www.akhf.org/events/culture-shift-2-2

 

 

Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://covenanthouseak.org/we-must-end-sex-trafficking-of-our-alaska-youth/ 

 

https://www.covenanthouse.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/Loyola%20Multi-City%20Executive%20Summary%20FINAL.pdf 

 

https://covenanthouseak.org/sex-traffickers-target-homeless-youth-its-time-to-end-this-horrible-epidemic/

S3:E11 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Doing The Right Thing – The Rural / Urban Divide w/ Jasmine Boyle & Brian Wilson

On this episode we talk with Jasmine Boyle (Chief Operating Officer, RurAL Cap, Inc.) and Brian Wilson (Executive Director, The Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness) about the rural / urban divide in Alaska. We talk about how those experiencing homelessness in the largest city in the state are not Anchorage’s homeless population, but Alaska’s, the need for housing of all types statewide, and doing the right thing.

https://www.alaskahousing-homeless.org/

https://www.facebook.com/AKCH2.Alaska/

 

https://ruralcap.org/

https://www.facebook.com/RurALCAP

https://www.instagram.com/rural_alaska_cap/

 

#anchoredcity

 

Information about Culture Shift – Dec. 7, 2022:

https://www.akhf.org/events/culture-shift-2-2

 

Resources Used to Make This Episode:

Smith, D.W., 2011, Seeking a city with foundations: Theology for an urban world, InterVarsity Press, Nottingham.

 

Jefferson, M., [1939] 1989, ‘Why geography? The law of the primate city’, Geographical Review 79(2), 226-232. https://doi.org/10.2307/215528

 

Isserman, A. M. (1996). “It’s Obvious, It’s Wrong, and Anyway They Said It Years Ago”? Paul Krugman on Large Cities. International Regional Science Review, 19(1–2), 37–48. https://doi.org/10.1177/016001769601900204

S3:E10 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Racism and Colonialism w/ Samuel Johns (Ch’eedaih Zhee Kaii) - ***Explicit Language (but you got to hear this episode, it’s good)***

Grab a cup of coffee, pull up a chair and listen in to our conversation with Samuel Johns. On this episode we are thinking about racism and the legacy of colonialism as one of the heads of the hydra that is homelessness.

 

https://www.facebook.com/AKREBELUTION

https://www.facebook.com/groups/forgetmenotak

 

Music Video: AK Rebel (Samuel Johns) - Rise feat. Junya, Ayyu, Byron Nicholai:

https://youtu.be/0a1nsArWQYQ

 

#anchoredcity

 

Information about Culture Shift – Dec. 7, 2022:

https://www.akhf.org/events/culture-shift-2-2

 

Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2022/10/18/mans-racist-testimony-to-anchorage-assembly-sparks-calls-for-changes-at-meetings/

 

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2022/10/21/many-faces-anchorages-homeless-population/

Alaska Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2002, Racism’s frontier: The untold story of discrimination and division in Alaska, viewed 3 October 2015, from http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/sac/ak0402/main.htm.

 

Porco, Peter, ‘3 Teen Hunted Natives With Paintball Guns, Police say.’ Anchorage Daily News, A1 & A10, February 24, 2001, Accessed November 11, 2022: https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A1445094F387BC7E2%40NGPA-AKADN-17B0A2659123F36D%402451965-17AD624792E02722%400-17AD624792E02722%40?search_terms=paintball%2Battack&text=paintball%20attack&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=1445094F387BC7E2&pdate=2001-02-24

S3:E:9 - 50th Episode Special - The Thread: Human Sustainability

We are taking a break from Season 3 – The Hydra of Homelessness – to celebrate our 50^th Episode. We’ve covered a lot of ground over the past couple years. In this episode we are considering the threads that run through it all and the question we ask most often.

 

#anchoredcity

 

Link to the 700+ Responses from the IMAGINE Project

https://www.anchorageutc.org/imagineexhibit

 

Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://mainlinetoday.com/life-style/when-god-and-money-intersect/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust#Initial_adoption

https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-history-of-in-god-we-trust-on-currency.html#:~:text=President%20Dwight%20Eisenhower%20signed%20into,included%20on%20all%20U.S.%20currency

https://nealschaffer.com/podcast-statistics/

https://chartable.com/blog/2020-year-in-review

https://slamagency.com/why-podcasts-fail/

https://www.amplifimedia.com/blogstein/2018/8/22/how-many-of-the-550000-podcasts-are-actually-active

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43585592#metadata_info_tab_contents 

S3:E8 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Foster Care w/ Kim Guay & Naomi Davidson

S3:E8 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Foster Care w/ Kim Guay & Naomi Davidson

A story about homelessness that is often told is that young adults exiting the Foster Care system make up a large amount of the homeless population. On this episode we are talking to Kim Guay (Director) & Naomi Davidson (Independent Living Program Coordinator) from the Alaska Office Of Children’s Services about that narrative and all the ways youth in the foster care system are being supported as they transition into adulthood.

 

Facing Foster Care in Alaska http://www.ffcalaska.org/

facebook.com/FacingFosterCareinAK

@FacingFosterCareAK

 

Big Brothers Big Sisters – mentorship program https://www.bbbsak.org/

facebook.com/BBBSAK

@BBBSAK

 

Alaska Department of Family and Community Services - https://dfcs.alaska.gov/

facebook.com/Alaska-Department-of-Family-and-Community-Services-105160088894844

 

Office of Children’s Services Foster Care Information Page https://dfcs.alaska.gov/ocs/Pages/fostercare/default.aspx

 

Foster Care Application https://dfcs.alaska.gov/ocs/Documents/FosterCare/FosterCareApplication.pdf

 

#anchoredcity

 

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http://anchoragepress.secondstreetapp.com/Press-Picks-2022/

 

Mitzvah Mall Info:

https://www.facebook.com/events/807138267263379/?ref=newsfeed

 

Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://nfyi.org/issues/homelessness/

S3:E7 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Mental Health w/ Faith J Myers

S3:E7 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Mental Health w/ Faith J Myers

Mental Health and homelessness are closely intertwined. On this episode we hear from Faith J. Myers a mental health and psychiatric patient rights activist who draws on her personal experience to seek better care for Alaskans.

Myers is the author of the book “Going Crazy in Alaska: A History of Alaska’s Treatment of Psychiatric Patients” and the eBook “Mental Health Care in Alaska 2022: A Report Card by a Former Psychiatric Patient.”

 

A commentary connected to this episode can be found at:

https://www.juneauempire.com/opinion/opinion-failure-of-alaskas-mental-health-care-system-contributes-to-homelessness/

 

#anchoredcity

 

Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/never-ending-loop-homelessness-psychiatric-disorder-and-mortality

 

Myers, F. J. (2020). Going Crazy in Alaska: A History of Alaska's Treatment of Psychiatric Patients. United States: BookBaby. p. 61ff.

 

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/03/22/doctors-at-api-were-right-50-years-ago/

 

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2016/09/23/brother-francis-shelter-marking-35-years-of-caring-pauses-to-remember-its-beginnings/

S3:E6 - The Hydra of Homelessness: LGBTQ+ and Homelessness w/ Laura Reijns

S3:E6 - The Hydra of Homelessness: LGBTQ+ and Homelessness w/ Laura Reijns

LGBTQ+ youth risk homelessness at a rate that is 120% higher than other youth. Join us as we talk to Laura Reijns, the Co-Director of Operations for Choosing Our Roots, about LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness in Anchorage.

 

facebook.com/choosingourroots

@choosingourroots

www.choosingourroots.org

 

#anchoredcity

 

Resources Used to Make This Episode:

https://slace.syr.edu/homeless-gay-ignored-the-need-for-federal-aid-to-combat-the-epidemic-of-lgbtq-youth-homelessness-in-america/

&

https://slace.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/The-Need-For-Federal-Aid-to-Combat-the-Epidemic-of-LGBTQ-Youth-Homelessness-in-America-by-Joseph-J.-Railey.pdf

 

https://nn4youth.org/lgbtq-homeless-youth

S3:E5 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Public Health and Homelessness w/ Dr. Emily Mosites

On this episode we look at a head of the Homelessness Hydra that might not be the first thing one might think of: public health. Join us for a conversation with Dr. Emily Mosites, Senior Advisor on Special Populations at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 

facebook.com/cdc

@cdcgov

www.cdc.gov

#anchoredcity

 

Resources Used to Make This Episode:

Emily Mosites, Emily Eisenberg Lobelo, Laura Hughes, Jay C Butler, Public Health and Homelessness: A Framework, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 226, Issue Supplement_3, 15 October 2022, Pages S372–S374, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiac353

 

S3:E4 - The Hydra of Homelessness: “Relationship is Therapeutic” – Substance Use w/ Jen O’Neal & Catherine Smith

The stereotype that is often voiced about those experiencing homelessness is that they are substance abusers, but it’s not that simple according to our guests Jen O’Neal (Clinical Supervisor for Supportive Housing) and Catherine Smith (Peer Support Specialist for Supportive Housing) at Volunteers of America. Join us in learning more about how substance use and abuse interacts with homelessness and why relationship is therapeutic.

 

https://voaak.org

https://www.facebook.com/VOAAlaska

@VOAAlaska

 

#anchoredcity

 

Resources Used to Make This Episode:

Rocke, K. & Van Dyke, J., 2017, Incarnational training framework: A training guide for developing leaders engaged in city transformation, 2nd edn., Street Psalms Press, Tacoma. P. 49.

S3:E3 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Affordable Housing w/ Meg Zaletel

My co-worker’s daughter asked her recently, “Why don't homeless people who get money save it for housing?" Our guest on this episode, Meg Zaletel has the answer. Zaletel is the Executive Director of The Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness and represents Midtown (District 4) on the Anchorage Assembly. We are talking about affordable housing with her on this episode.

 

aceh.org

facebook.com/AnchorageHomeless

@anchoragehomeless

 

https://www.muni.org/Departments/Assembly/Pages/default.aspx

S3:E2 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Anchorage’s Homeless History w/ Nancy Burke

S3:E2 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Anchorage’s Homeless History w/ Nancy Burke

Anchorage has been dealing with complex social issues like homelessness for a long time. In this episode we learn more about how the city has responded to homelessness over the years from my guest Nancy Burke. Burke has been involved in responding to homelessness for many years and is currently the Special Assistant for Housing and COVID-19 response at the United Way of Anchorage.

www.facebook.com/liveunitedanc

@liveunitedanc

www.liveunitedanc.org

#anchoredcity

S3:E1 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Solving Homelessness is a Hard Thing To Do

S3:E1 - The Hydra of Homelessness: Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Solving Homelessness is a Hard Thing To Do

A pope, a mayor, and an archbishop walk into a podcast. That sounds like the set up for a joke. It’s not. However, in this episode you find out what a Pope, a mayor, and an Arch Bishop – not to mention a rose garden and the mythical beast the Hydra - have to have to do with homelessness in Anchorage.

Join us as we start Season 3 of the AnchorEd City Podcast: The Hydra of Homelessness.

For a good primer on the recent history of homelessness response in the Anchorage check out:

 

ADN Politics podcast: “The past, present and future of Anchorage homelessness - What happened, why and what’s next in Anchorage’s ongoing and changing homelessness crisis.” https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/08/26/adn-politics-podcast-the-past-present-and-future-of-anchorage-homelessness/

 

Resources used to make this episode:

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2016/09/23/brother-francis-shelter-marking-35-years-of-caring-pauses-to-remember-its-beginnings/

 

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/02/26/remembering-alaskas-visit-from-the-pope-40-years-later/

 

RUNAWAY TEENS FIND SHELTER AT COVENANT

By Larry Campbell - November 2, 1988 

Anchorage Daily News (AK)  - Page: B1 

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/news/0F78DCC2CFF26855?search_terms

 

Covenant House Will Offer Care and Love for Our Youth In Need

By Robert B. Flint – May 30, 1988

Anchorage Daily News (AK) – Page: B7

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:1445094F387BC7E2@NGPA-AKADN-179A4D2269D3C5FB@2447312-179A4BE422F65907@16-179A4BE422F65907@?search_terms

 

A Home of Last Resort

By Mitch Lipka – March 31, 1987

Anchorage Times – Page: D1

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16C02882AAA45086@2446886-16C0274CA3F2A38D@30-16C0274CA3F2A38D@?search_terms

 

https://www.facebook.com/bronsonformayor/photos/pb.100069243578372.-2207520000../268953178267434/?type=3

 

Rosenheck, R., 1994. Homelessness in America. American journal of public health, 84(12), pp.1885-1886.

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.84.12.1885

 

Christensen, J., Arnfjord, S., Carraher, S. and Hedwig, T., 2017. “Homelessness across Alaska, the Canadian North and Greenland: A review of the literature on a developing social phenomenon in the Circumpolar North”. Arctic, 70(4), pp.349-364.https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4680

 

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/humanitarian

 

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2022/06/17/opinion-moving-forward-on-anchorage-homelessness-solutions/

 

https://alaskalandmine.podbean.com/e/alexis-johnson-and-corey-allen-young-episode-252/

 

https://twitter.com/EastAncBookClub

 

BTS 11: EMERGENCY - BACK TO SCHOOL – ENCORE: A Long Drive To School: A Trailer Park And Its School Zoning

BTS 11: EMERGENCY - BACK TO SCHOOL – ENCORE: 

A Long Drive To School: A Trailer Park And Its School Zoning

 

The distances that the youth from the Dimond Estates neighborhood travel to school has been inequitable for years, but in light of the current bus driver shortage in Anchorage it has become a matter of discrimination.

Here is our encore presentation of “A Long Drive To School: A Trailer Park And Its School Zoning” from Last September explaining the historic situation.

We hope you will give it a listen.

We hope even more that you will contact the Anchorage School District to voice you concern and displeasure about the Bussing Situation in Anchorage and discriminatory districting.

Contact the Anchorage School Board at: https://www.asdk12.org/Page/1442

 

Resources used to make this episode:

 

Anchorage Daily Times, 1970, ‘Mobile Home Park Has Large Recreation Room’, 19 December 1970, viewed 12 September 2021, from https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:14454275A04DAA79@NGPA-AKADN-16BC7D1719AB9B77@2440940-16BC6DC6F6E133BE@5-16BC6DC6F6E133BE@?search_terms

 

Anchorage Daily News, 1970, ‘Mobile Home Park Opens For Rental’, 20 December 1970, viewed 12 September 2021, from https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:1445094F387BC7E2@NGPA-AKADN-14653E2BF14E0608@2440941-14653BADDDF0B65B@4-14653BADDDF0B65B@?search_terms

 

Anchorage Daily News, 2003, ‘High School Boundaries On The Move’, 21 January 2003,

viewed 12 September 2021, from

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:1445094F387BC7E2@NGPA-AKADN-17B1F40A9B7CC1FA@2452661-17B1B913208CC402@14-17B1B913208CC402@?search_terms

&

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2:1445094F387BC7E2@NGPA-AKADN-17B1F40A9B7CC1FA@2452661-17B1B90D1E153E18@12-17B1B90D1E153E18@?search_terms

 

https://www.asdk12.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=115&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=55011&PageID=1

 

https://www.asdk12.org/cms/lib/AK02207157/Centricity/Domain/1204/Ethnicity%202020-2021.pdf

 

https://www.asdk12.org/domain/1254  

 

https://www.asdk12.org/Page/6696

 

https://www.asdk12.org/Page/6697

 

https://www.asdk12.org/Page/6698

 

Tunseth, M., 2015, ‘Anchorage public schools lead nation in diversity’, 23 May, 2015, Anchorage Daily News, viewed 28 January 2019, from https://www.adn.com/education/article/anchorage-melting- pot-diversity/2015/05/24/.

 

Jay, Z., 2010. Decoded. Random House, p.218