Let’s explain what we mean by storytelling collaboration. This is a more involved, less “objective” kind of journalism that embeds students into organizations to work
Category: Collaborative Solutions Stories
In Fall 2024, Madison Commons launched a new kind of journalism project—one grounded in collaboration, trust, and the lived realities of Madisonians facing myriad struggles. Throughout the year, teams of student reporters embed with local organizations to tell the deeper stories of challenges such as housing crises and mental health difficulties — and the people working to fix it. To read an overview of this “Collaborative Storytelling”work, funding, and collaborative community journalism practice from our publisher, Sue Robinson, please click here. To read and view the rich archive of first-person profiles, resource lists, know-your-rights explainers, podcasts and more, please scroll down to the content below.
Building futures, one family at a time: The Road Home honors stories of strength at their annual breakfast fundraiser (Collaborative Story)
“How can a Motel 6 feel more like a home than stone and bricks?” UW–Madison student artist and Madison 2024 Youth Poet Laureate Justin Festege-Russell
Addressing housing insecurity through a holistic care model (Collaborative Story)
The United States continues to face a nationwide affordability crisis marked by extraordinary rates of housing insecurity. Communities report difficulty adequately supporting unhoused residents and
The Tenant Resource Center fights housing instability and provides resources to renter households facing eviction
According to data collected by the Tenant Resource Center, a Madison organization that supplies eviction information, support and legal representation to households and individuals, 2,353
Redrawing the path: YAAS Madison’s model for youth mental health and justice support (Collaborative Story)
A mental-health initiative that began with a 2020 Dane County grant has grown into one of Madison’s most comprehensive community-based support systems for young people.
Collaborative Storytelling: How we do community-based, solutions focused work in Madison
In Fall 2024, Madison Commons launched an initiative to explore how journalists might act as caregivers in hyperlocal communities, working in collaboration with a nonprofit
Dane County housing insecurity resource list
This is an evolving list of resources for people seeking help with their housing concerns: wrongful eviction, problems with landlords or notices of other programs
Exploring how to house nontraditional students seeking degrees
This story is part of a two-year (2024-26) series prioritizing solutions to housing insecurity through collaborative storytelling. For more information about the series, please see the
Learn about the combined resources of the Homeless Services Consortium of Dane County
This story is part of a two-year (2024-26) series prioritizing solutions to housing insecurity through collaborative storytelling. For more information about the series, please see the
Subsidized housing for nontraditional college students: Might it be right for Madison? UW Odyssey Project leaders explore the possibility.
This story, a modified version of a story that ran earlier in The Capital Times, is part of a two-year (2024-26) series prioritizing solutions to
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