Overall:
Stretch, recover, stretch, recover.
May & June Meetings:
Fairbanks Chamber:
7/3/
FHHC (Fairbanks Homeless & Housing Coalition)– 6/26
Youth Focus Group: is a committee of the FHHC & I chair this.
multiple meetings – getting ready for Angry, Young & Poor.
Fairbanks Rescue Mission: The Vista’s and I attend weekly staff meetings at FRM and then have our own ‘staff meeting’ as well.
Contacts: Personal meetings with key people & agencies
– this is really about building relationship with people who we will be working with for the long haul.
1) Chief Zager and Brad Johnson, Chief and Deputy Chief of Police, Fairbanks Police Dept.
2) Althea St. Martin, Special Assistant to Senator Lisa Murkowski
3) Community – agency meeting – see description
4) Angela Snow, Fairbanks Native Association
5) Evelyn Edson, director of Joel’s Place AmeriCorps program
6) Patty Meritt, UAF – Child Development Professor
7) Steve Neumuth, Patrick and Rodney –
Trainings:
1) Knowing Who You Are (helping youth in care develop their racial and ethnic identity) 2.5 days – compliments of OCS.
2) Webinar: Applying Evidence Based Practices – Compliments of Runaway Homeless Youth Training and Technical Assistance
Donations & Fundraising
100.00 from new donor that is unknown to me
260.00 Walk for Charity
468.20 from Market income
Other Items donated:
Community member: hand crochet and knit personal blankets
Other Topics:
Vistas: Meagan was a whirlwind to say the least! She did a great job at the markets making friends with everyone. Her last day was 7/27.
Sarah continues to be steady and consistent. She has made exciting progress with the Street Stories and Revive the Red Tent group.
Coordinated Community Meeting: in light that we need shelter for youth – this winter, we invited other stakeholders to a conversation. 15 came, including OCS, FCA, JPSOS, FNSBSD, FNA, Access AK, and others. We had a great brainstorming session and came up with 4 ideas to pursue:
Housing First
B&B/Hostel
Shared Spaces that are vacant at night
Host Homes
Sarah and I are exploring these and will report back to the community group the end of August.
Angry, Young & Poor: Wearing dual hats (FYA Director & Youth Focus Chair for FHHC) we collaborated with Joel’s Place AmeriCorps & the Street Outreach & Advocacy Program to provide services to homeless youth who would be attending the AYP event in Ester. We orchestrated & completed a dry run for an unofficial count of homeless youth (interviewing 22 youth, 12 of which were homeless) for a more substantial event the end of January in 2013. Alaska Housing Finance Corporation is very interested in this information – so it is good to be providing important information to them too.
Grants: I continue to rework over 1 question of the BCP application each week. Just to save a little stress for next year.
Public Relations:
30 second PSA (not published yet)
Letter to the Editor: published 7/13
We now have stationary + note cards with out logo
Meagan made great progress with Newsletter
Parenting Campaigns: have been discussing this with Patty Meritt and doing some research. We’ve had positive feedback from others – to move ahead with this idea – looking at radio spotlights.
