{"id":484,"date":"2017-03-05T15:06:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T19:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/?p=484"},"modified":"2017-03-05T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T19:11:11","slug":"expert-interview-with-paul-go-soup-kitchen-volunteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/2017\/03\/05\/expert-interview-with-paul-go-soup-kitchen-volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Interview with Paul Go (Soup Kitchen Volunteer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ethnography Summary:<\/strong> Yuwei Tu, Paul Cepak, and Amanda Berusch interviewed Paul Go about his perspective on the homeless situation in South Bend. Paul has been volunteering weekly at the soup kitchen for 5 years, preparing meals and serving the homeless.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-505\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_4131-e1488740722726-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_4131-e1488740722726-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_4131-e1488740722726-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>:2\/17\/17<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: Downtown Soup Kitchen at First United Methodist Church<\/p>\n<p><strong>User Characteristic:\u00a0<\/strong>Retired ND employee, middle aged<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Many homeless don&#8217;t operate well in the normal society, don&#8217;t want to be around other people<\/p>\n<p>-Mental disorder and alcohol\/drug abuse big problem<\/p>\n<p>-Not many people use shelters, because they are comfortable where they are<\/p>\n<p>-Wood crafters in Grand Rapids that provides employment for homeless, could be opportunity for South Bend<\/p>\n<p>-Homeless take advantage of resources like food stamps, but not so much job placements<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t like normal jobs. They don&#8217;t want to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have resources associated with Memorial Hospital, and they do a very good job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As long as they&#8217;re not harm to others, in a sense they are allowed to sleep in tents. So what the city can do, is they can open up places like this&#8230;to at least give some warm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnography Summary: Yuwei Tu, Paul Cepak, and Amanda Berusch interviewed Paul Go about his perspective on the homeless situation in South Bend. Paul has been volunteering weekly at the soup kitchen for 5 years, preparing meals and serving the homeless. Date:2\/17\/17 Location: Downtown Soup Kitchen at First United Methodist Church User Characteristic:\u00a0Retired ND employee, middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-city-of-south-bend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/innovation-and-design-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}