TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ensign,Josephine
TI  - Catching homelessness: a nurse's story of falling through the safety net 
SN  - 9781631521171
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Berkeley, CA
PB  - She Writes Press
KW  - Ensign, Josephine.
KW  - Homelessness
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Richmond
KW  - Homeless persons
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206); Next of kin -- First families -- Foreign territory -- Relics -- Homeless ghosts -- Confederate chess -- Death list -- Catching homelessness -- Going under -- Greyhound therapy
N2  - "At the beginning of the homelessness epidemic in the 1980s, Josephine Ensign was a young, white, Christian wife, mother, and nurse running a new medical clinic for the homeless in the heart of the South. Through her work and intense relationships with patients and coworkers, her worldview was shattered, and after losing her job, family, and house, she became homeless herself. She reconstructed her life with altered views on homelessness -- and on the health care system. In Catching Homelessness, Ensign reflects on how this work, and the experience of being homeless, has changed her -- providing a piercing look at the homelessness industry, nursing, and our country's health care safety net"--
ER  -