This boy and his dad are changing the lives of homeless people — and it all starts with a meal.
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00:00What I like about getting people into housing is just like seeing the after look when they're in housing, seeing how they feel about it, seeing how happy they are. It's really nice.
00:12When we become curious about why the person in front of us is holding a sign, then you get like Chase and you say, Dad, why are they, why in a place like this do they need stuff?
00:31And so when we start exploring the trajectory and how people might move forward, we can put new ideas into play that might reduce costs and quicken people's movement forward.
00:43We started looking at how to open up individuals and we found that a meal worked best or walking, hike, different things, but specifically what you have to do is break the tension and figure out a way to kind of get in there.
01:12When Chase was four, we started getting really interested in anything that Batman might get interested in, including helping people. So we would go out and explore on tracks when he was really little.
01:29We started talking with individuals on the street and that turned into really just watching and observing how people communicate and connect that have trauma or depression or anxiety or an addiction.
01:44As a person who was homeless at the time and him and Chase wanting to serve as a homeless, he wanted, he thought, what better way to get some impactful information that would be positive.
02:09I'm standing up for people who don't know what's out there, you know, as far as resources and who feel like they don't have a voice. And so I'm still advocating for the homeless.
02:27Sharing space, not to take them on as a project, but just simply to understand what kind of human being they are and what they've been through. That really is the essence of finding out what they are through active listening and through trying to get where they're coming from, which is really what drives social change.