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		<title>Improving the use of Empathy in Recovery-Oriented Conversations</title>
		<link>http://www.orgcode.com/2012/02/02/improving-the-use-of-empathy-in-recovery-oriented-conversations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orgcode.com/2012/02/02/improving-the-use-of-empathy-in-recovery-oriented-conversations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain De Jong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iain's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decision-making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Supports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recovery-Oriented Housing Support Training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I am unveiling our new Recovery-oriented Housing Support Training. One of the areas I felt it necessary to add more time and attention is related to the importance of expressing and exercising empathetic conversation. Being appreciative of the client’s thoughts, feelings and experience is important to meaningful support, but too often I have <a href='http://www.orgcode.com/2012/02/02/improving-the-use-of-empathy-in-recovery-oriented-conversations/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Qualities of Some Amazing Outreach Workers</title>
		<link>http://www.orgcode.com/2012/01/20/qualities-of-some-amazing-outreach-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain De Jong</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dignity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[street team]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orgcode.com/?p=351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I had the chance to ride along with an outreach team in Calgary. It was pretty darn cold…less than -25C with the wind chill. I love doing outreach. It takes me back to my days doing community development work and street outreach. It helps me stay grounded in that part of the reality <a href='http://www.orgcode.com/2012/01/20/qualities-of-some-amazing-outreach-workers/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Transitional Housing?</title>
		<link>http://www.orgcode.com/2012/01/10/transitional-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orgcode.com/2012/01/10/transitional-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain De Jong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iain's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homelessness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transitional housing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orgcode.com/?p=350</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For more than a decade, in the role of policy-development, as a service practitioner and as a researcher, I have been investigating and trying to understand the allure of Transitional Housing. I have been interested in the outputs and outcomes that Transitional Housing can demonstrate relative to other housing models. I have been interested in <a href='http://www.orgcode.com/2012/01/10/transitional-housing/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>When the World Seems Like a Cold Place, it may be Time to Kindle More Fires</title>
		<link>http://www.orgcode.com/2012/01/05/when-the-world-seems-like-a-cold-place-it-may-be-time-to-kindle-more-fires/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orgcode.com/2012/01/05/when-the-world-seems-like-a-cold-place-it-may-be-time-to-kindle-more-fires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain De Jong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iain's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overcoming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflection]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orgcode.com/?p=348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a very personal blog about my journey to accept my mental illness and to acknowledge how it has helped me to become a much better person, practitioner and teacher. We all seek meaning in life. We want to do things that enrich us emotionally, intellectually, socially, recreationally and spiritually. Indeed, the world can <a href='http://www.orgcode.com/2012/01/05/when-the-world-seems-like-a-cold-place-it-may-be-time-to-kindle-more-fires/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Distinguishing Between Enabling and Supportive Relationships</title>
		<link>http://www.orgcode.com/2012/01/03/distinguishing-between-enabling-and-supportive-relationships/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orgcode.com/2012/01/03/distinguishing-between-enabling-and-supportive-relationships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain De Jong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iain's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[case management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enabling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greater independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helping clients]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing help]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Supports]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orgcode.com/?p=345</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My thanks for the blog request on this specific topic. I’d be hard pressed to think of a housing support worker/case manager that deliberately tries to make the life of any client worse. People go into this type of work because they tend to want to help others. But I think we need to take <a href='http://www.orgcode.com/2012/01/03/distinguishing-between-enabling-and-supportive-relationships/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen &amp; Gentlewomen</title>
		<link>http://www.orgcode.com/2011/12/21/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-gentlewomen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orgcode.com/2011/12/21/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-gentlewomen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain De Jong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iain's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[year-end]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orgcode.com/?p=342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We’re winding down another year here at OrgCode. Heck, we’re even going to shut the door and turn off the phones for a week between Christmas and the New Year and that will be a first since we re-booted the company in Q4 2009. God rest us merry gentlemen and gentlewomen. It’s hard to believe <a href='http://www.orgcode.com/2011/12/21/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-gentlewomen/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to be a Kinder, More Informed &amp; Strategic Funder</title>
		<link>http://www.orgcode.com/2011/12/14/how-to-be-a-kinder-more-informed-strategic-funder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orgcode.com/2011/12/14/how-to-be-a-kinder-more-informed-strategic-funder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain De Jong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iain's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funding]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[open letter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orgcode.com/?p=341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been a funder. I have been a practitioner. I remain a researcher. I am a faculty member at a rather excellent university. I am now a consultant. I am going to do my best to not make this blog a rant. In my attempt to remain professional, allow me to make this an <a href='http://www.orgcode.com/2011/12/14/how-to-be-a-kinder-more-informed-strategic-funder/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Harm Reduction and the Provision of Homeless Services to Youth</title>
		<link>http://www.orgcode.com/2011/12/08/harm-reduction-and-the-provision-of-homeless-services-to-youth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orgcode.com/2011/12/08/harm-reduction-and-the-provision-of-homeless-services-to-youth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain De Jong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iain's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DARE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harm Reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homelessness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narcotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teenage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[temptation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orgcode.com/?p=339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Harm reduction approaches can be seen as controversial when working with many populations, including unaccompanied youth. Some will cite reasons pertaining to the illicit nature of certain substances, the age of maturity, psychosocial development and the like. Others hold on to the “just say no” mantra. Harm reduction has gotten a bad rap in some <a href='http://www.orgcode.com/2011/12/08/harm-reduction-and-the-provision-of-homeless-services-to-youth/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Things Will Go Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.orgcode.com/2011/11/29/things-will-go-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orgcode.com/2011/11/29/things-will-go-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain De Jong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iain's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boundaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[damages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hoarding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homelessness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing First]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neighbors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neighbours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rapid Re-Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rent]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orgcode.com/?p=338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PART TEN: Things Will Go Wrong This is the last installment in our 10-part blog series on essential elements of successful housing programs. We’d love to hear from you about your thoughts on the series or any other topics you’d like to see in a future blog. idejong@orgcode.com I have never seen a perfect housing <a href='http://www.orgcode.com/2011/11/29/things-will-go-wrong/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Planning for Success throughout Phases of Housing Stability</title>
		<link>http://www.orgcode.com/2011/11/23/planning-for-success-throughout-phases-of-housing-stability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.orgcode.com/2011/11/23/planning-for-success-throughout-phases-of-housing-stability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali Ryder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iain's Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assertive assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outcome Star]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recovery Star]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S-Curve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sigmoid Curve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPDAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wellness Recovery Action Plan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.orgcode.com/?p=336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part Nine: Planning for Success throughout Phases of Housing Stability My pal (and Founding Partner of OrgCode), Dr. John Whitesell, has reinforced in me over the past dozen years the usefulness of the Sigmoid Curve to represent change, growth and development within people and organizations. He has also ingrained in me the ability to chunk <a href='http://www.orgcode.com/2011/11/23/planning-for-success-throughout-phases-of-housing-stability/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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