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2008 GVPCCC Meeting Schedule |
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All
meetings will be held at Mary Immaculate
Hospital (MIH) Resource Center (located directly
across from the main hospital entrance).
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Save the Dates for the next GVPCCC General Meetings
Topics for 2008
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April 15, 2008 – Volunteer Management, Recruitment, and Retention
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July 15, 2008 – Legislative Trends – How to track legislation and advocate for social change
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October 21, 2008 – Tentative: Healthcare for the Uninsured
If you have ideas for other topics you would like to see covered at the General Meetings, or to help on the Education Committee, please contact Cynthia Murchison-Grice, (757) 643-4363,
ceesblessing@msn.com
Cost: $10 per meeting or $20 for annual membership. Current members are FREE. Please contact Brenda Garrett to make sure your membership is up-to-date: Brenda Garrett, GVPCCC Treasurer, KidsPriorityOne Executive Director,
KidsPriorityOne, 4101 Granby St., Norfolk, VA
23504 (757) 962-2112
Please
see the individual Task Force and Committee
pages for their meeting times. |
| Executive Committee Meetings are every 3rd Tuesday of the month. |
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New GVPCCC officers elected!
- Kathy
Johnson, Alternatives, Inc., Chair
- Karen
Kurilko, Refugee and Immigration Services,
Secretary
- Brenda
Garrett, KidsPriorityOne,
Treasurer
For more information on the GVPCCC, please contact Kathy Johnson at
(757) 838-2330.
Standards
of Care Documents
Posted
6/21/2007
Standards
of Care
Self Study
Standards
of Care
Committee Study
Robin
Bledsoe
as POC for
comments on the document.
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Point-in-Time Survey
Greater Virginia Peninsula Continuum of Care
(Newport
News, Hampton, Williamsburg, James
City County, York County,
Poquoson)
THE
SHELTERED COUNT WILL OCCUR:
Wednesday,
January
23, 2008
- 7:00 pm – January 24, 2008 -
6:00 am
THE
UNSHELTERED COUNT WILL
OCCUR:
during the day of Thursday,
January 24, 2008, 7:00am –
2:00pm
for
people unsheltered the night
before.
As
we agreed, these
forms will be due on FEBRUARY
19, 2008 at 1:00
PM.
They
are to be hand-delivered to
monthly Homelessness Taskforce
meeting held at Mary Immaculate
and at that meeting we will
tabulate the results.
Point
In Time Count Forms
Sheltered
Unsheltered
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 Legislative
Advocacy in 3 minutes or less:
Rental Assistance
In
just minutes, you can make a
difference in the lives of
homeless and poor working
Virginians. Support their
efforts to work their way
home—write your
representatives a short message
supporting Rental Assistance for
the working poor. Here’s
how:
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Identify youself
as a stakeholder
2.
Clearly state your
request - Ask your
legislator to support Rental
Assistance for Virginia’s
working poor.
3.
Give just one or two
reasons for your request.
Here are some ideas. Feel free
to use these, or mix them with
your own outlook and experience.
- Rental
Assistance is a proven,
effective, and cost-saving
program.
- Rental
Assistance will help assure
that people moving from
welfare to work also work
their way out of poverty and
homelessness.
- Rental
Assistance can keep a family
in independent housing for
about half the cost of
providing emergency shelter
for the same family.
- Support
for the working poor helps
local economies—families
use their savings to buy
food, clothing, and other
necessities.
- Children
in stable homes maintain
better school attendance,
perform better in schools,
are less likely to drop out
and are healthier than
children in shelters.
- Homeless
Virginians need your help.
Rental Assistance meets
immediate basic human needs.
4. Close
Restate your request for action.
Include
your name and address on your
message as well as on the
envelope, to show letters are
coming from all areas of
Virginia
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Dear
Senator (or Delegate) _______:
As
a resident of ____ and one of
your constituents, I am writing
to request your support for
Rental Assistance for
Virginia’s working poor.
Time limited Rental Assistance
will help low income working
Virginians fill the gap between
their income and housing costs.
Rental Assistance can be
provided for about half the cost
of providing emergency shelter.
Rental
Assistance is a proven,
effective, and cost-saving
program. Rental Assistance
upholds the promise of work, and
will help women transition from
welfare to work, and low-income
workers moving from shelter to
home. Housing stability
supports family stability--and a
stable home helps children
achieve in school and parents
advance at work.
Rental
Assistance also supports local
economies, as working families
buy the things they need to
survive and thrive.
I
hope that I can count on your
support for Rental Assistance.
I look forward to hearing about
your position and your vote.
Sincerely,
_____________
(your
name and address)
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Legislators
do not respond to form letters,
so take a moment and make this
letter your own. To
contact the Governor
write:
The
Honorable Timothy M. Kaine
The Governor’s Office
P.O. Box 1475
Richmond, VA 23218
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