Navigate professional excellence at your law centre while experiencing homelessness. Learn to leverage lived experience as strength, set boundaries, and advocate for accommodations that help you serve clients effectively.

Your lived experience isn't a liability—it's potentially your greatest professional asset. Sometimes the most important qualification is understanding what your clients are going through because you've been there yourself.
I want to learn how to be a good support worker at a law centre that I’m working in despite I’m homeless and my colleagues know


Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco

Lena: Hey everyone, welcome to this special BeFreed podcast-we're so excited to dive into something really meaningful today with all of you listening.
Eli: Absolutely! And what we're exploring today hits close to home for so many people working in legal aid and support roles. Lena, we've got someone who's navigating a really challenging situation-working as a support worker at a law centre while experiencing homelessness themselves, and their colleagues know about it.
Lena: Right, and that takes incredible courage. What I find fascinating is how this connects to everything we've been reading about trauma-informed workplaces, professional resilience, and finding purpose even when you're facing your own crisis.