Tuesday, February 22
The panel discussion with Dr. Sam Tsemberis and Maryanne Schretzsman is this Thursday. I was finally able to send off a mass email with the speakers' related documents last Friday. I've been at the mercy of the CEO and Lead Attourney. The former has been constantly reminding and pushing me to get related academic or position papers of our speakers for distribution to the staff (so they can read up on the speakers before attending), the latter has been disconnected from organising the panel discussion (even though she's responsible for it) and a difficult party to get any assistance from. Because I'm a only secondary organiser in this thing, I'm not privy to information or contact with our speakers, so I'm shy to call them and ask for their academic/position papers.
Dr. Tsemberis is the founder of Pathways to Housing, a revolutionary model of housing homeless clients that runs against the grain of current models. His model is based on consumer choice, where the client (consumer) tells you what he needs when asked (choice). It's simple, really, but the prevailing model of homeless service providers (including the Partnership) is the Continuum of Care, a model which requires the client follows a prescribed path towards eventually 'earning' a house, a path which includes, among other hoops, getting and remaining sober, taking required medication, and becoming "housing ready" (i.e. learning, some suggest, useless skills for becoming ready again for housing).
Maryanne Schretzsman is the Deputy Commissioner for Policy and Planning of NYC's Department of Homeless Services. With the anxious tension between homeless service providers/advocates and DHS as a result of the City's newest Housing Stability Plus plan (see post dated 1/13/05), this upcoming discussion should be very provocative. Our CEO has a good relationship with the Deputy Commissioner and it'll be interesting to see how the discussion plays out.
I was in a full 8 hours today, catching up with Grant Writer regarding what I missed yesterday.
Dr. Tsemberis is the founder of Pathways to Housing, a revolutionary model of housing homeless clients that runs against the grain of current models. His model is based on consumer choice, where the client (consumer) tells you what he needs when asked (choice). It's simple, really, but the prevailing model of homeless service providers (including the Partnership) is the Continuum of Care, a model which requires the client follows a prescribed path towards eventually 'earning' a house, a path which includes, among other hoops, getting and remaining sober, taking required medication, and becoming "housing ready" (i.e. learning, some suggest, useless skills for becoming ready again for housing).
Maryanne Schretzsman is the Deputy Commissioner for Policy and Planning of NYC's Department of Homeless Services. With the anxious tension between homeless service providers/advocates and DHS as a result of the City's newest Housing Stability Plus plan (see post dated 1/13/05), this upcoming discussion should be very provocative. Our CEO has a good relationship with the Deputy Commissioner and it'll be interesting to see how the discussion plays out.
I was in a full 8 hours today, catching up with Grant Writer regarding what I missed yesterday.
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