{"id":5119,"date":"2017-04-11T13:39:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T17:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cie\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2024-06-11T22:18:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T02:18:41","slug":"opening-the-classroom-to-the-poor-and-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cie\/2017\/opening-the-classroom-to-the-poor-and-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening the Classroom to the Poor and Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Opening the Classroom to the Poor and Homeless\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><em>Free, non-credit courses aim to break down barriers and reduce social isolation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maurice Vernier, 52, has just finished six months in an addictions recovery program at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawamission.com\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #cf112d;\">Ottawa Mission<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, a shelter for homeless men. Now living in a group home, he still has to undergo weekly breathalyser, blood and urine testing, but if he stays clean for one year he can move into his own apartment. And he\u2019s almost there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been sober nine months now,\u201d he says, ducking his head but smiling shyly. \u201cI quit smoking four months ago, too. I really want to change everything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continue reading&nbsp;the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityaffairs.ca\/news\/news-article\/discovery-u-opens-classroom-poor-homeless\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #cf112d;\">here<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free, non-credit courses aim to break down barriers and reduce social isolation. Maurice Vernier, 52, has just finished six months in an addictions recovery program at the Ottawa Mission, a shelter for homeless men. Now living in a group home, he still has to undergo weekly breathalyser, blood and urine testing, but if he stays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5122,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions\/5122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}