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Something Has Shifted
My father passed away, the company I started was sold, and I was lost. What shifted, a pair of shoes I traded at twelve, and why I'm writing again.
Read the post: Something Has Shifted →Building tools for frontline staff impacting people experiencing homelessness
I build technology inside a homeless shelter. I believe solving homelessness starts in childhood, and that housing isn’t the silver bullet: homelessness is a system of human brokenness. The tools I build should help us notice earlier and help people become whole.
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One letter a month on building technology for people experiencing homelessness.
Speaking
Talks for shelter leaders, youth-serving agencies, funders and churches. I speak from what we built.
“Every adult in our shelter was once a child: technology that notices earlier”
“Build your own: forward deployed engineering for frontline organizations”
Invite Chad to speak →Four convictions shape what I build and write.
Every post on this site sits under one of them. Follow one to read everything filed there.
01Prevention
Solving homelessness starts in childhood.
Many adults in shelter first lost a home as children or youth. The work has to begin long before someone reaches our door.
Read Prevention posts →02Brokenness
Housing is not the silver bullet.
Homelessness is a system of human brokenness. A roof matters, but it doesn’t mend what’s broken underneath.
Read Brokenness posts →03Faith
Only Christ can heal that brokenness.
Programs and tools can serve people, but healing the brokenness at the root belongs to Christ alone.
Read Faith posts →04Build
We can all build solutions.
Every organization can build what its people need. Templated solutions, copied from somewhere else, will ultimately fail.
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