[homeles_ot-l] Community Meeting Regarding Changes to Centre 507

[Bill Dare]

No doubt, changing a “culture” of systems and organizational response to
homelessness is not an easy thing to do.  Hard moments and decisions have
to be made.   The banner of Housing First is one all of us can get behind,
but how is the plan being implemented to communicate steps to the front
line workers much less our program leaders?  How are the people we serve to
find their way into community settlement?


So far the approach seems to be notices of program shutdowns.  But where is
the plan and vision and more to the point the community based process?  How
do we ensure that we don’t recreate the versions of
“de-institutionalization” of the 70’s/80’s and the ensuing response of
institutional homelessness into  recreating yet more gaps in transition to
community and neighbourhood integration?   We need to have transparency on
the plan to bridge with the implementation goals of Housing First.


I have looked around on a few key web pages such as the Alliance and the
City, and while there are hints of the directions such as
http://ottawa.ca/en/residents/social-services/housing/our-ten-year-plan it
is clear we need our leaders in homelessness to engage with us and the
people programs serve, in talking about implementation.


An admirable example of good process, though it may be an idealized one is
out of Vancouver, provided via the homelessness hub
http://www.homelesshub.ca/resource/four-organizations-partnered-address-youth-homelessness-vancouver-analysis-intersectoral.
Their efforts brought the multiple perspectives of: client, worker,
manager, system planner, political leaders.  Bridging the multiple sectors
and process’, small steps at a time.


thanks for considering this view, Bill Dare

On 14 February 2015 at 07:29, Reuel Amdur <amdurre2 at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>  Housing First is fine.  But there need to be things for people with
> special needs who are housed to do to occupy their time.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Caroline Andrew <candrew at uottawa.ca>
> *To:* manager at centre507.org ; homeles_ot-l at list.web.net
> *Sent:* Friday, February 13, 2015 11:41 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [homeles_ot-l] Community Meeting Regarding Changes to
> Centre 507
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>  Thanks caroline
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> *From:* homeles_ot-l [mailto:homeles_ot-l-bounces at list.web.net] *On
> Behalf Of *manager at centre507.org
> *Sent:* February-13-15 8:18 AM
> *To:* homeles_ot-l at list.web.net
> *Subject:* [homeles_ot-l] Community Meeting Regarding Changes to Centre
> 507
>
>
>
> Hello everyone
>
>
>
> Attached is a poster for a community meeting at Centretown United Church
> next Wednesday, February 18 at 7:30pm to talk about the  changes in program
> funding at Centre 507 and how these changes will impact  the Centretown
> Community.
>
>
>
> Richard LeBlanc
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