The Homelessness Policy Research Institute’s Race Equity Committee hosted its annual in-person retreat at USC’s Caruso Catholic Center. Tapping into personal artistic expression, spiritual healing, guided meditation, fine arts performance, and trauma-informed qualitative research methods, the retreat provided a space for HPRI members to center and heal themselves, and leave with knowledge to continue their work in a more trauma-informed fashion.

The Homelessness Policy Research Institute (HPRI) is a collaborative of over one hundred researchers, policymakers, service providers, and experts with lived experience of homelessness that accelerate equitable and culturally informed solutions to homelessness in Los Angeles County by advancing knowledge and fostering transformational partnerships between research, policy and practice.