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2017 SHECP Symposium speaker videos are now available at https://www.shepherdconsortium.org/conferences/symposium/ for the speakers and...

Working at Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC), a homeless outreach non-profit, in New York City this summer elicited two different...

With blooming potted vegetables at my feet, I stood in front of Brian at Beacon Apartments, a permanent housing site for the formerly...

This summer I interned at the Bowery Residents Committee in New York City. Every morning I would wake up at 4:30, throw on my jeans and...

Children yearn to feel empowered, a theory I developed and observed during the summer of 2017.  From June 5 to July 28, I interned at...

I walked into the doors of the Cone Health Regional Center for Infectious Disease in Greensboro, North Carolina basically clueless. I...

Shepherd Consortium Elects New Officers and Council Members and Governing Board Chair Appoints Committee Chairs The Shepherd Higher...

Lexington, VA — Paul Butler, Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University; James Forman, Jr., Professor of Law at Yale...

Millsaps College Selected as SHECP Academic Home; Rolph Named Academic Director Following a competitive application process, Millsaps...

Poverty Studies Students to Prepare for Summer Internships at Marymount University. Lexington, VA — The Shepherd Higher Education...

“My SHECP internship granted me the opportunity to witness what selfless means.” Writes Collins. From a young age, I did not know what I...

James Forman, Jr., Professor of Law at Yale University, will speak at the Shepherd Consortium symposium on “Criminal Justice, Poverty,...

Taking the Pulse on Poverty” symposium will take place on Tuesday, March 28 and focus on the missing connections between poverty and...

“While studying and discussing Daniel Moynihan’s “Culture of Poverty” in Washington and Lee Poverty 101 class, I asked myself ‘Why is it...

“The biggest hurdle for these families was finding affordable, high quality food without jumping through enormous obstacles” writes...

“Medical treatment is not enough; we must also consider how to relieve a patient’s psychosocial situation to improve and sustain their...

The idea of the began with Reverend Ralph W. Beiting, a Roman Catholic priest born and raised in northern Kentucky. He was the oldest of...

SHECP would like to thank the Kappa Alpha Order for the generous donation of office space within their National Administrative Offices in...

The connection between intimate partner violence (IPV) and poverty isn’t obvious. In fact, it took me the majority of the summer to...

(LIFT is a national anti-poverty non-profit devoted to empowering families to break the cycle of poverty. This summer I was a Community...