There are many conversations at The Doorway about the way life is and how it plays out. It seems like a long time since I have heard or read new insight in the ‘longstanding’ conversation about how to understand…
I have received The Story of Telling (Bernadette Jiwa) emails from Australia for years now and am consistently inspired by the simplicity of the wisdom that energizes thought and reflection. The excerpt below is over the top in capturing in…
“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.” Sunday is often a great day to contemplate, step back, rest, walk, ponder, stop to wonder about things that don’t enter our busy minds…
For all of us who love the gift of the Peace Bridge in our city … I guess “Make Peace not War” is now a very old quote. It made the headlines in the 60’s and 70’s when it…
If you are paying attention to or doing a personal exploration of current writing and literature about young people on the street, let us encourage you to consider the source and how recent the perspective is. There seems to…
Do kids in the child welfare system get more than their basic needs met while in professional care? What is considered as a basic need? Is it food and shelter? What about psychological needs, education, and feeling a sense…
a simple question … “ could someone please count the list of names on a page at the end of the day so that data can be collected by a number instead of having to be counted in the…
“What I have been able to understand is that almost all of the youth have the ability to be self-sufficient through their own knowledge and skills that they already possess. I have also seen that there is no on…
The following is a submission retrieved from a 1989 BackTalk Publication, a newsletter published by The Back Door (now The Doorway). When we read through our 30 year Archives, it is sometimes sad and frustrating how little has changed…
‘If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.’ Thomas Edison Perhaps most people will resonate with this statement as a truth in their experience. Or maybe it will be a…