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Summit spotlights lived experience, community toolkits and World Cafe discussions
Summary
Speakers emphasized centering people with lived experience in planning and highlighted a new community toolkit, World Cafe sessions and peer‑led efforts such as Keys to Life and True North Recovery as part of the city's response.
Summit panels and community dialogues emphasized that people with lived experience of homelessness should help design responses, and organizers used small “World Cafe” sessions to collect community proposals and volunteer commitments.
Shirley May Springer Staton, executive director of Keys to Life, summarized a months‑long community listening process that produced a toolkit and a list of community‑generated solutions. She said participants — including people who are currently or previously unhoused,…
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