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Kendra Deja

Kendra Deja

Executive Director of Solace Friends in Madison, Wisconsin, a nurse practitioner and social worker with 25 years in hospice and palliative care.

Sep 28, 2026

20:31
with that state of being unsheltered.
20:33
Meaning we do care for people with serious mental illness.
20:38
We care for people with substance use independence.
20:46
We care for people with a lot of Deep trauma just from the experience of being housed and the experience of all kinds of violence that people experience and living on the street, family estrangement.
21:03
You know, the dignity of being the indignity of being overlooked as a human being when someone walks by you on the street.
21:10
So all that is real.
21:11
And that has been.

12 MINS LATER

32:57
Has there been a specific guest that you've had, a resident that has really made an impact on you?

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