I completed this story about a social worker in Norfolk, Va., during the week-long Truth With a Camera
Workshop in the summer of 2005.
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Keith Josey owns his own social
work practice and is director
of the Mission of the Holy
Spirit, an urban ministry and
service organization based in
the Park Place neighborhood of
Norfolk.
Tyesha Coleman, 12, answers
the door when Keith Josey
stops by her family's home in
Lambert's Point on Tuesday.
Josey stopped by because he
hadn't heard from Tyesha in a
while.
Monica Wilson hands Keith
Josey her prescriptions after a
doctor appointment at Sentera
Norfolk General's Ambulatory
Care Center on Monday.
Wilson, who was a 16-year-old
high school drop out when she
found the Mission of the Holy
Sprit three years ago, got her
GED and is attending Norfolk
State University. "I was going
through a lot. I was depressed.
I can say that now," Wilson
said. "They motivated me. I
started out as one of the kids.
now I help others out."
Keith Josey talks to Tyshenna
Hollowell, 13, on a friend's
front porch in Lambert's Point,
a tough, working-class
neighborhood of Norfolk.
"Mr. K, Mr. K!" shout Naquan
Hathway (left), 12, and Keon
Wilson (right), 13, as they rush
up to the window of Keith
Josey's minivan in Tidewater
Park neighborhood on Monday.
Josey is a familiar face to
many of the children of
Tidewater Park, a rough
neighborhood that is home to
some of the Mission of the Holy
Spirit's members.
Sandra Coleman confides in
Josey the troubles she's having
raising two teenagers in their
Lambert's Point home on
Tuesday.
Keith Josey leans in to hear
what Sharie Tolliver has to say
before picking her up at her
home in Norview for Bible
study on Wednesday. Tolliver,
who is now 21 and the music
director for the group, was
already a regular at the
Mission of the Holy Spirit when
Josey joined the group nine
years ago. "When you are a
kid, they give you something
to do, and that makes you feel
more important," she said of
the Mission.
Keith Josey leads the weekly
Wednesday evening bible study
class with some members of
the Mission of the Holy Spirit
at the Knox Presbyterian
Church in Park Place. The
mission is housed in the
Presbyterian Church, but it was
founded by Episcopal priests
Julia and Beverley Tucker and
is ecumenical in nature.
Keith Josey (center in blue)
leads a prayer circle to end
their weekly Wednesday
evening Bible study at the
Mission of the Holy Spirit's
home in the Knox Presbyterian
Church in Park Place.
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