Street Voices

The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) speaker’s bureau program Street Voices has sent out speakers with lived experience of homelessness for 10 years. With each unique tale, their goal is to expose the community to the real face of homelessness and inspire people of different ages and backgrounds to serve and get involved in their communities. They can attend a religious congregation or civic organization along with a staff member to talk about homelessness in Greater Cleveland.

Street Voices has been in existence for 10 years and has told their stories to many schools, churches, and faith based organizations on a regular basis across Northeast Ohio. Typically we do 20 to 40 presentations a year.

Email Etienne to request a speaker. engels@neoch.org

Listen to NEOCH’s education coordinator, Maggie Rice, discuss the purpose and goal of the Street Voices bureau:

To schedule a Street Voices Speaker:

Please fill out this form, and our education coordinator will follow up with you. NEOCH strongly encourages a $100 honorarium. However, if your group is unable to provide the honorarium, no group will be turned away. Click here for a Street Speaker Flyer!

Street Voices Podcast

As a part of NEOCH’s immersive learning program, our team partnered with students from Xavier University to host the “Street Voices Podcast”, featuring interviews with various members of the Street Voices bureau. Here, NEOCH board member and Cleveland Street Chronicle vendor Kim ‘Supermutt’ Goodman discusses her own experiences with homelessness and how it informs the work she does today.