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A
Well,
because
a
housing
and
community
development
acts
committee
and
Mental
Health
Authority
20
feet,
it's
Thursday,
November
7
2019
long
as
you
feel
open.
These
have
a
quorum
present
to
the
respective
committees.
Most
of
most
of
what
we're
gonna
be
doing
tonight
is
hearing
presentations
from
applicants.
The
first
item
on
the
agenda,
however,
is
an
action
item
that
doesn't
directly
relate
to
the
applicants.
Theory
on
the
agenda,
but
so
we
did
have
a
situation
where
a
couple
of
applicants
wishes
to
turn
in
applications
after
the
deadline.
A
So
assails
myself
prefer
me,
and
we
want
to
have
the
committee
make
a
decision
on
that.
So
the
request
is
whether
or
not
to
accept
late
applications.
You
know
I
had
some
thoughts
on
that.
We
have
had
situations
in
the
past
where
applicants
have
made
an
error
well
that
they've
made
yes
and
I.
Think
we've
had
that.
That's
not
been
allowed,
but
we've
had
situations
where
there
have
been
interim
steps.
So
in
other
words,
you
might've
missed
a
meeting
that
you
know
to
be
our
patient
deadline
or
maybe
a
letter
of
intent.
Ously.
A
B
A
B
Thanks
the
situation
tires
of
all,
it
was
actually
someone.
Who's
been
second
boarded,
for
whatever
reason
they're
having
issues
with
a
computer
is
submitting
right
at
that
last
hour.
So
the
question
is
no
excuses
to
why
it
took
so
long,
but
it
it
sort
of
made
sense,
and
it
was
just
an
administrative
error.
They
could
have
been
trackin
computer,
so
I
believe
it
was
just
an
oversight
or
just
something
that
help
us
understand
the
nature
of
the.
Why
right.
A
Right-
and
you
know
it
began-
that
might
is
my
personal
opinion,
but
to
me
is
it's
a
competitive
process
right,
so
it's
more
analogous
to
opening
bids
for
project.
So
again,
there
are
these
interim
steps.
The
staff
has
been
working
with
the
for
a
period
of
time,
so
there
shouldn't
be.
There
shouldn't,
be
any
confusion
on
what
the
deadline
is.
Right,
I
mean
you
work
with
them
for
weeks
and
weeks
and
yeah,
and
so.
D
Was
it
the
last
meeting
where
we
had
guests?
It
was
the
last
me
and
I
think
there
were
several
members
of
the
committee
who
aren't
here
this
evening,
who
had
expressed
really
strong
views
that
that
those
two
instances
would
be
the
last
ones
that
they
would
accept
coming
in
late
and
I.
Think
there
were
some
very.
C
E
H
A
Know
those
were
letters
of
intent,
so
we
have
a
number
of
steps
that
come
into
play
before
the
actual
deadline
for
the
application.
So
again,
in
my
mind,
I
could
you
know
see
agency
they're
working
through
the
process,
but
you
know
in
the
process
and
participating
sort
of
like
you're
working
up
to
you
know
end
of
the
race
and
to
be
barring
something.
You
know
particularly.
J
If
I
can
doesn't,
my
take
I
feel
like
out
the
myth
of
a
boy
in
previous
years.
If
we've
had
agencies
come
in
we've
kind
of
just
said:
okay,
what's
the
reason
they've
got
map
and
spoken,
and
we
pull
express
our
support
for
the
agencies
and
we've
always
approved
it.
This
time,
I
feel
a
little
differently,
because
I'm
in
the
position
of
chana
and
I
actually
got
to
see
the
amount
of
staff
time
that
goes
into
processing
these
late
applications
and
I
was
quite
amazed.
J
J
It
really
just
shows
that
it's
quite
an
involved
process,
so
I
understand
the
challenges
of
like
getting
deadlines,
and
we
all
support
the
agencies.
We
all
want
the
best
for
the
agencies,
but
I'm
wondering
at
what
point.
We
have
to
have
a
more
firm
stance
and
recognize
that
the
deadline
is
there
for
a
reason,
especially
so
we
aren't
appearing
to
show
any
favoritism
or
preference
to
agencies,
but
I
just
wanted
to
say
that
that
that
in
no
way
negates
our
recognition
of
the
great
work
that
agencies
are
doing
and
how
important
the
funding
is.
I.
A
A
A
A
I
Know
as
someone
who
commonly
is
also
applying
for
grants
or
being
aware
of
it,
you
know
you
are
aware
of
the
deadlines
and
review
process
and
constantly
having
to
give
people
deadlines
in
advance
that
you
can
make
I
think
that
we
do
need
to
take
a
stance
and
we
need
to
have
a
firmer.
You
know
moving
forward.
We
said
that
we
would
not
make
any
additional
exception,
because
if
you.
A
You
know
if
it
built
into
the
process,
there
aren't
any
exceptions
as
co-chairs.
We
didn't
think
it
was
fair
to
the
staff
to
put
them
in
the
position
of
you
know
the
you
know,
maybe
being
the
final
word
or
so
to
speak
without
having
some
input
from
us,
I
thought
was
more
appropriate
that
we
would,
you
know,
give
directive
what,
if
that
directive
is
already
used
to
clarify
that.
So
that's
what
we're
discussing
it
amongst
ourselves.
Sorry
to
make
you
all
wait,
but
yeah.
A
B
C
B
Sound
like
a
weird
process
but
I
think
for
the
applicants
for
here
that
are
here
if
they
there's
a
consensus
to
hear
it
from
those
that,
under
and
on
time,
I
know.
That
seems
a
little
bit
awkward
for
that
to
be
seems
like
very
fair,
but
I
would
like
to
know
why
so
yeah
I'm
going
to
entertain
the
question.
I
think
there
should
be
oh
they're.
A
Not
the
agenda
tonight,
I,
don't
think
they're
a
year
unless
I'm
not
recognizing
them
they're
out
here,
then
a
lot
of
them
is
okay.
We
don't
know
okay,
so
my
intention
was
not
to
put
anybody
on
the
spot,
though,
and
it's
it's
more.
It's
more
of
a
policy
question,
as
opposed
to
a
seems
like
directly
related
to
a
specific
agency
there.
So
again,
I
didn't
want
to
put
anybody
under
their
gun.
Again,
it's
it's!
C
D
So
I
do
think
hearing
the
amount
of
effort
that
the
city
staff
had
put
in
and
the
fact
of
like
that
involved.
It
indicates
the
gravity
to
which
we
need
to
adhere
to,
and
so
I
I
think,
unfortunately,
without
fully
recognizing
the
value
of
these
agencies
to
our
city.
But
I
also
think
that,
in
fairness
to
everyone
who
does
comply
and
that
all
of
our
work
lives,
we
have
that
ones.
D
Think
in
this
sense
the
fact
that
then
the
staff
had
to
put
in
a
lot
of
extra
time
rather
than
be
working
on
the
issues
that
they
that
they're
supposed
to
work
on
to
me
is
an
example
of
why
we
need
a
firm
deadline
and
then
we
just
extinguish
we
just
stop
just
like
we
do
with
it
in
applications.
You
know
it's
funny,
and
a
lot
of
that
is
to
do
with
the
fairness
of
the
process
to
every
other
applicant,
because.
A
B
B
A
Yeah
and
so,
and
so
what
the
as
chair
is
what
we
did
was
we
had
the
staff
I
get
the
people
working,
collect
the
materials
in
the
event
that
there
was
going
to
be
an
acceptance
just
so
that
everybody
will
be
ready,
but
with
the
condition
that
is
the
respective
time
bodies
we
have
to.
You
know,
waive
the
requirement
so
without
the
requirements
people
in
university,
but
the
staff
did
under
the
introspective
Alfie's.
D
J
Recep,
oh
yeah,
very
separately,
okay,
to
have
emerged
into
decline,
accepting
late
applications.
J
J
C
D
J
A
M
Hi
everyone,
my
name,
is
Kim
tan
and
the
executive
director
looks
at
breakfast
and
I'm
joined
here
tonight:
Tasha
Triplett,
our
Associate
Director
of
Programming,
our
grizzly
site
director,
our
contact
information.
My
phone
numbers
reached
me
eight
or
seven,
four,
seven,
seven
zero.
Since
our
website
is
www.miamikettlebell.com.
M
M
School
program
offering
and
helping
or
email
or
we're
help
students
who
have
been
identified
as
a
needing
additional
support.
Our
goal
every
day
is
that
kids
have
come
to
BOSU
breakfast
will
enter
their
classrooms,
really
ready
for
learning,
so
ready,
physically
ready,
emotionally
I'm
ready
academically
for
what
waits
for
them
in
the
classroom.
In
addition,
for
our
morning
program
are
excellent
staff
team.
M
As
a
student
here
in
Evanston,
first
I
wanna,
say
thanks
for
your
past
support
and
2019
you
partnered
with
us,
we
were
able
to
launch
a
new
site
we're
able
to
bring
the
program
to
make
an
elementary
school
and
they're
2025.
Students
who
are
rostered
I
got
to
talk
to
a
couple
of
kids
about
what
difference.
M
Made
for
them
and
I
wanted
to
tell
you
what
they
said.
So
I
talked
with
a
third
returning
student
possibilities
like
what
difference,
as
as
you
need
to
do.
They're
great
boys
aren't
meanness,
necessarily
the
most
talkative
articulate,
but
this
little
boy
said
you
know
what
before
I
didn't.
Have
anyone
to
help
me
put
my
homework
and
it
felt
like
I
was
in
a
dark
room
all
by
myself
and
I
said.
So.
What
difference
does
it
make
having
books
and
breakfast
in
the
morning?
Because
all
it's
like
a
rainbow
so.
M
C
M
Else
we
want
to
be
providing
a
place
for
connection
emotional
relational
connection,
takes
precedence
over
everything
else.
We
know
that
our
students
are
experiencing
all
types
of
challenges
in
trauma.
Even
today,
Tasha
and
I
are
talking
about
students
that,
at
per
se,
that
came
in
talking
about
four
of
them
talking
about
a
parent
and
their
life
that
was
not
at
home
and
either
for
short-term
reasons
or
for
long-term
reasons,
and
talking
about
the
impact
of
that
and
eBooks
of
emphasis.
M
Mari
became
a
place
for
children
to
talk,
one
talk
to
one
another
and
then
for
older
students.
Whether
there
are
on
younger
students,
say
it's
okay,
I
know
how
you
feel
and
then
for
Tasha
just
for
those
students
in
our
way
that
receive
that
acknowledge
that
and
then
still
empowered
them
as
they
walked
into
class.
M
We
understand
that
our
children
are
coming
in
with
significant
challenges,
and
we
believe
that
our
our
our
commitment
to
relationship
building
and
connection
build
safety,
those
trust
and
that
that
has
impact
when
kids
walk
into
the
classroom
and
for
cdbg
is
eeeh.
The
Edison
should
be
a
liveable
community,
where
everyone
benefits
from
math
and
especially
recognizing,
who
that
underrepresented
in
who
has
had
fewer
and
less
access
to
those
resources
wanting
to
make
a
livable
and
equitable
community.
We
share
that
value
system.
Here
we
want
our
school
communities
to
be
just
back
where.
C
M
Recognize
how
institutionalized
racism
and
the
disparities
that
come
between
race
and
economics
are
leading
us
to
desperated
outcomes
and
they
benefit
somewhere.
That
is
all
the
time
we
want
to
push
back
on
them
in
a
way
that
our
school
communities
truly
are
inclusive
and
inclusive,
and
and
really
thriving
for
all
of
our
family
members,
especially
for
folks
who
are
often
left
out,
but
those
happens
and
not
success.
Our
proposal
before
you
asked
two
things
of
you
and
asks
for
you
to
consider
what
we
are
already
doing.
M
Last
year
we
had
over
150
students
in
the
program
where
we
have
four
elementary
schools,
I'm
going
to
ask
you
to
partner
with
us
to
keep
those
those
sites
driving.
We
are
in
a
season
of
growth
as
an
organization,
we
have
multiple
schools
inviting
us
to
bring
the
program
and
we
want
to
meet
that
meet,
but
we
can't
do
that
if
we
can
responsibly
sustain
what
we've
already
started
and
build
trusting
relationships
and
folks,
we've
already
started
program.
M
M
You
were
funding
with
us
to
be
able
to
work
with
us
on
this,
and
in
addition,
it
we
can't
help
us
forgetting,
because
Parent
Resource
liaison
that
can
help
our
staff
connect
our
families
to
resources
when
our
families
are
in
crisis,
that
I
would
really
increase
our
ability
to
serve
families
better.
What
I
want
to
leave
you
with
is
just
a
picture
of
what
makes
us
unique.
We
are
the
only
before
school
program
offering
holistic
care
for
students
with
this
vision
of
equity.
We
target.
M
C
M
Schools
that
serve
the
fifth
Ward
have
in
Crete
definite
disproportionate
impact
in
that
regard.
In
addition,
we
are
one
of
the
few
programs
serving
kindergarten
first
and
second
grade
students.
Absolutely
the
last
thing
that
makes
us
unique
is
the
community
that
we're
trying
to
build
150
students
175
many
eight
percent
of
our
students
are
students
of
color,
maybe
6%
of
them
qualify
for
free
or
reduced
lunch.
A
hundred
percent
of
them
are
Evanston
residents.
We
have
over
200
family
members
supporting
those
kids
in
partnership
with
us
75
or
more
teachers.
M
District
65
are
partnering
with
us,
150
community
volunteers,
30
northwestern
students,
you
add
all
those
groups
up
together,
it's
over
600
people
actively
engaged
and
seeing
as
they
become
a
community
where
all
children
are
valued
and
supported,
I'm,
going
to
ask
you,
as
leaders
in
the
city
of
Evanston,
to
join
with
us
and
continued
ways
to
that
end.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
E
C
E
M
And
it's
a
work
in
progress.
We
haven't
moved
that
forward.
The
way
that
I
would
like
and
if
you're
familiar
with
the
rate
of
the
fit
for
T's
that
district
it.
It
has
really
been
separated
into
five
different
elementary
school
district,
so
students
in
the
fifth
Ward
will
go
to
doing
orient
and
Lillard
Kingsley
link
new
one.
M
None
of
those
most
of
those
schools
aren't
walkable
or
any
of
those
children,
and
none
of
the
schools
that
their
district
to
actually
qualify
for
title
one
lending
so
there's
a
breakdown
of
the
resources
serving
children
that
live
in
a
fifth
word
from
the
get-go.
There
is
busing
provided
to
get
to
school
by
905,
but
not
in
early
school
bus
and
not
an
act,
not
only
school
bus,
which
means
that
those
students
who
look
farther
away
from
the
schools
of
their
district
in
to
have
made
multiple
barriers
in
reaching
that.
M
M
E
M
So
we
work
in
district
65
buildings.
We
feel
like
everything
we
knew
everything
we
do
needs
to
be
based
in
that
building.
That's
what
we're
trying
to
grow
is
that
sense
of
community
and
spread
school
in
that
building.
We
are
dependent
on
the
the
rooms
that
are
available
to
the
principal
and
so
every
year.
That's
a
conversation
so.
M
Just
practicing
and
oh,
we
were
in
the
multi-purpose
room,
which
is
the
largest
room
in
the
whole
school
building,
which
allows
us
to
have
a
roster
of
60
at
Lincoln.
What
we
are
in
the
art
room,
Kingsley
and
at
we're
in
the
library
there's
a
great
spaces,
and
they
we
bring
in
tables
and
we
bring
in
chairs
and
we're
throwing
everything
to
Pete
breakfast
and
I
move
it
back
on
out,
there's
just
yeah.
M
That
is
a
hard
hard
ceiling
for
us
in
terms
of
there's,
so
only
so
much
limited
space,
but
so
far
we
feel
like.
We
really
made
the
best
of
that,
and
really
it
goes
to
the
partnership
and
the
commitment
of
our
principals
that
are
committed
to
making
sure
that
we
have
enough
space
to
meet
what
they
want
to
see
happen
in
their
buildings.
M
Thank
you
for
that
question.
So
we
we
had
our
one
of
the
things
that
we
did
want
to
target.
Was
these
big
gaps
in
the
resources,
so
we
wanted
to
target
kids
who
would
qualify
financially
for
additional
resources,
but
our
buildings
that
do
not
qualify
for
them.
So
do
we
started
it
to
me
because
it
do
not
have
any
access
to
a
morning
meal.
That's
why
we
went
to
LinkedIn
what
so
there's
a
gap,
and
it's
a
system
at
that.
M
It
does
not
mean
that
there's
not
additional
need
at
Overtoun
or
at
Washington
Ordaz,
but
it
felt
like
the
primary
place
we
were
supposed
to
start,
but
we
kept
having
a
similar
question
with
other
parents.
Say:
I
have
30%
of
my
student
population
that
really
needs
additional
resources,
but
I
don't
have
them
in
my
building.
M
So
it's
a
specific
mission
and
targeting
that,
but
as
we
grow
we're
being
asked
by
title
one:
schools
who
don't
actually
have
programming,
especially
programming,
that
impacts
converting
first
and
second
graders
that
doesn't
need
its
honor,
it's
on
our
list
and
our
hope
is
to
continue
to
grow
and
continue
to
add
a
school
year.
So
that
we
can
eventually
it's
a
title
in
schools
even
specifically,
was
interesting
to
us,
because
it
is
the
school
that
shows
that
that
gap
in
incomes
more
than
anywhere
else.
M
C
M
Organization
targeting
that
gap
in
resources,
so
it
felt
it
felt
like
a
consistent
with
our
mission
of
targeting
those
gaps
and
bringing
attention
to
the
lack
of
equity,
and
we
have
had
an
incredible
amount
of
welcome
an
invitation
for
teachers
and
principals
and
parents.
That
honesty
is
there.
Honesty.
Is
there
quickly
just.
I
M
P
Thank
you
for
having
beer
does.
He
seem
to
talk
about
families,
everything
I'm,
Colette,
Alan,
I'm
center
director
for
family
focus,
Evanston
we're
located
at
2010.
Do
we
Ave
anew
here
in
Evanston?
Our
phone
number
is
eight
four,
seven,
four,
seven,
five,
seven,
five,
seven
zero.
Our
website,
wwlp.com.
P
Instant
and
I
have
with
me
a
Mark
Brown,
who
is
director
of
grants
and
contracts.
Most
of
you
are
very
familiar
with
family
focus,
we've
been
in
Evanston
for
44
years
and
we
serve
families
with
a
holistic
approach.
We
start
with
h0
all
the
way
up
to
adulthood.
We
take
a
holistic
approach.
These
have
an
early.
O
P
Families
with
children
zero
to
three,
we
serve
families
in
crisis
with
a
DCFS
program
where
we
educate
the
parents,
we
provide
advocacy
and
we
also
supervised
visitations
grandparents
support
group
for
grandparents
raising
grandchildren.
We
have
a
food
pantry
and
a
closed
deposit,
and
this
evening
I'm
talking
about
our
after-school
the
summer
camp
programs.
P
You
have
supported
us
for
many
many
years
and
we
appreciate
it
and
we
would
love
your
continued
support.
I
serve
those
children
that
Kim
talked
about
those
children
who
are
bused
out
of
the
fifth
Ward
and
go
to
schools
outside
of
their
community.
We
try
to
wrap
our
arms
around
them
and
provide
them
with
a
safe
environment
and
love
and
support.
P
We
have
we
have
children
who
have
lost
parents
to
gun
violence
and
the
prison
system.
We
have
recently
sent
seen
an
increase
and
families
struggling
with
homelessness
and
food
insecurity.
Right
now
we
are
serving
60
students
in
our
after-school
program
when
we
provide
homework,
support
and
enrichment
activities
to
enhance
academic
and
life
experiences.
P
We
are
very
proud
to
say
that
more
than
ninety
percent
of
our
students
have
stayed
at
or
above
grade
level
in
reading
and
90
plus
percent
have
participated
in,
and
family
focus.
Thanks
to
the
support
of
the
mental
health
court
and
CEG,
we
have
amazing
partnerships
and
the
list
grows.
Our
collaboration
with
Evan
stem
and
our
own
stem
committee
provides
amazing
stem
activities
for
our
students.
We
have
science,
Saturdays
and
students
from
Northwestern's
McCormick
School
of
Engineering
provide
mentoring
to
the
students
once
a
month
this
year,
they're
working
on
pinball
machines.
That's
the
challenge!
P
This
year
we
continue
our
partnership
of
a
Science
and
Industry.
The
museum's
provides
training
for
our
staff,
plus
all
the
materials
for
the
children
that
do
amazing
stem
activities,
and
it
includes
two
field
trips
to
the
museum.
Every
year.
Science
and
society
of
northwestern
also
does
science
clubs
with
our
students,
and
then
we
are
very
proud
of
a
partnership
that
we
have
the
northwestern
School
of
Education
and
Social
Policy
and
the
YMCA
I'm
sure
many
of
you
have
heard
of
meta
Media,
the
YMCA
on
Lake.
P
Well
now
we
have
better
media
at
posture,
so
that
provides
opportunities
for
the
kids
and
the
fifth
Ward
to
come
to
family
focus
and
participate
in
a
makerspace.
There
are
3d
printers
and
laser
cutters
and
sewing
machines
that
are
computerized,
a
machine
that
make
t-shirts,
so
they
are
doing
amazing
things
right
at
family
focus.
P
Our
partnership
with
Evanston
flunixin
food
exchange
has
grown.
It
is
now
known
as
the
fosters
trained
urban
agricultural
program
and,
in
addition
to
kids,
learning,
gardening
and
community
service
entrepreneurship,
they
are
also
learning
about
careers.
In
agriculture,
we
reap
reinforced
literacy
skills
with
a
longtime
volunteers
through
poetry
and
writings
for
two
years
in
a
row,
our
students
have
won
statewide
poetry
contest
sponsored
by
the
Illinois
Council
Against
handgun,
a
list
of
activities
can
go
on
and
on
and
on.
P
We
have
my
Mondays
we're
a
volunteer
high
school
math
teacher
from
Evanston
Township
comes
in
every
Monday
and
it
works
with
the
kids
on
math
beacon,
Academy
students,
art
students
are
returning
for
the
third
year
to
teach
art
to
our
soup.
We
have
dance
with
the
identity
dance
troupe.
Now
last
year,
I
told
you
about
a
partnership.
We
were
doing
with
the
North
Shore
Mental
Health
Association
I
got
a
lot
of
talk
about
that,
because
they
didn't
think
that
middle
school
students
would
be
interested
in
a
curriculum
about
mental
health,
wrong.
P
It
was
the
most
popular
class
we
had,
they
taught
the
kids,
how
to
identify
stress
and
depression
and
gave
them
tools
to
handle
it.
They
love
the
yoga,
the
meditation
and
the
essential
oils
and
cooking
healthy
food.
It
was
a
great
success
not
only
with
the
kids
but
with
the
parents,
because
we
had
sessions
with
the
parents
as
well
and
we
will
do
it.
We
did
it
this
past
summer
and
we
are
doing
again
this
year.
P
One
of
our
most
popular
partnerships
is
y
es
or
guests.
It
is
a
brainchild
of
two
tennis
fanatics
here
at
Evans
that
are
part
of
antennas
Association.
They
come
in
twice
a
week.
The
first
hour
is
tutoring
with
the
students
they
have
built
a
cadre
of
volunteers
that
provide
one-on-one
tutoring
for
our
kids,
Mondays
and
Tuesdays
for
tolerance.
The
second
hour
is
free
tennis,
lessons
with
tennis,
rackets
and
balls
and
everything
the
kids
need
new.
This
year
we
have
a
partnership
with
George
Western
University,
but
called
many
chefs.
P
They
come
in
every
week
and
teach
the
kids
cooking
skills
when
I
left
this
evening
with
the
students
met
for
the
first
time
a
staffer
from
Evanston
Public
Library
will
be
coming
every
week.
One
week
she
will
book
club
with
e-readers
the
next
week.
She'll
do
arts
and
crafts.
We
also
partnered
with
the
youth
and
young
adult
division
of
the
city.
We
were
experiencing
a
lot
of
violence
on
the.
K
C
P
P
C
P
Want
to
tell
her
three
story
of
how
the
support
of
our
community
grows
and
creates
unique
programming
before
our
children
I'm
sure
many
of
you
are
familiar
with
Betty
Hester
she's
been
around
a
long
time,
but
she's
been
a
longtime
volunteer,
family
focus
and
volunteers
at
the
center
three
days
a
week
during
a
conversation,
I
found
out
that
she's,
quite
a
seamstress
and
I
said
which
she
grew:
a
quilting
project,
with
middle
school
kids
and
in
typical
Betty
style.
She
did
the
quilt.
P
She
had
the
kids
go
on
the
computer
and
identify
a
black
scientist
or
engineer,
or
artist
and
the
kids
been
a
representation
on
a
patch
and
they
sold
their
patches
on
this
beautiful
Kinte
cloth.
That
was
the
first
year
second
year.
She
did
a
similar
project
with
the
elementary
kids.
Then
she
saw
that
we
were
getting
old,
sewing
machines,
so
she
decided
to
start
a
sewing
class
for
the
kids.
Is
she
attractive
a
few
kids
and
they
were
using
sewing
machines
that
still
had
the
knee
paddle
and
all
of
that?
P
P
Now
we
have
two
sessions
of
accommodating
sixteen
kids,
and
yet
some
of
them
are
boys.
Young
man
came
to
me
and
showed
the
hoodie
in
creating
a
weekly,
more
volunteers,
delight
to
help
the
students
and
to
hone
their
own
skills.
We
even
had
an
all
day,
Saturday
session,
of
something
with
the
kids,
because
the
kids
wanted
to
finish
their
projects.
With
your
support,
we
will
continue
to
provide
a
safe
environment
and
the
kind
of
quality
program
that
this
has,
and
so
many
of
our
partners
provide
for
our
students.
A
R
Thank
you
for
having
us
here.
First
of
all,
my
name
is
Kristen.
Kennedy
I
have
the
ducky
director
and
director
of
Social
Work
services
at
the
Marin
Center
for
youth
advocacy.
We
are
located
newly
at
1900,
a
dumpster
street
in
Evanston.
You
can
reach
us
at
eight
four,
seven,
four,
nine
two
one,
four
one
zero
our
website
is.
A
K
R
R
And
justices
that
have
sidelined
and
marginalized
Evanson
youth
and
their
families
of
color.
For
far
too
long,
our
vision
is
to
close
the
justice
gap
and
advance
faculty
in
the
courtroom
in
the
classroom
and
in
the
community
to
do
that.
We
have
multiple
programs
at
track
to
advance
equity
when
the
brain
center
provides
free
legal
assistance
through
our
school-based
civil
legal
clinic.
C
R
J
D
J
R
When
we
created
face
basis
for
understand
these
officers
and
disconnected
youth
of
color
to
engage
authentic,
dialog
peace
circles
and
activities
together
through
project
bridge,
we
create
a
safer
and
more
peaceful
community
by
building
a
more
informed
police
force
and
giving
youth
voices
value.
The
Moran
centers
impact
isn't
only
felt
by
the
individuals
and
families
that.
R
Also
by
the
systems
that
we
changed
as
a
part
of
the
Roger
Pascal
restorative
justice
initiative,
the
Moran's
Lennar
successfully
advocated
for
and
is
currently
helping
to
implement
the
City
of
evidence
and
new
administrative
hearing
process
for
juveniles.
As
restorative
and
supportive
offering
from
the
criminal
justice
system,
the
Moran
Center
led
the
charge
and
catifying
retail
theft
and
theft
under
five
hundred
dollars
within
the
city
code.
R
R
The
Moran
Center
has
convened
eight
youth
serving
agencies
in
Evanston,
now
known
as
Edison
collective,
who
are
presently
engaged
in
an
effort
to
improve
evident
social
safety
net
with
social
service
agencies
and
develop
a
culturally
attuned
and
seamless
fabric
of
support
for
our
community's
youth
and
their
their
ongoing
collaboration
with
both
Evanston
school
districts.
We
have
helped
to
move
the
needle
toward
or
restorative
student
disciplinary
practices,
thus
resulting
in
fewer
school
suspensions
and
more
time
in
the
classroom.
R
R
Relationships
of
clients
and
their
families
in
order
to
support
social-emotional
development,
mental
needs
when
youth
and
young
adults
are
in
crisis,
our
social
workers
respond
day
or
night.
Our
education
advocacy
program
for
each
type
has
to
be
this
last
year
in
response
to
the
community
need
we
hired
an
additional
part-time
bilingual
education
attorney
to
serve
clients
and
a
part-time
assistant
attorney
to
manage
intakes.
We
are
requesting
funds
from
CDBG
to
support
portions
of
the
salaries
for
these
legal
staff.
Moran
Center
requires
the
city
to
serve
as
a
partner
in
order
to
support
these
new
positions.
R
On
educational
outreach,
efforts
for
parents
and
guardians
of
preschool
age,
children
and
in
daycares,
in
order
to
ensure
the
developmental
and
learning
needs,
are
identified
early,
the
school-based
civil
legal
clinic
instead
of
seen
tremendous
growth
since
its
lost.
But
since
its
launch
last
April
2018
based
on
current
demand,
we
propose
to
provide
civil
legal
services
to
160
families
in
2020,
which
is
one
hundred
and
sixty
six
percent
increase.
R
Social
worker
to
accommodate
the
growing
demand
for
therapy
and
case
management
for
all
of
our
legal
clients.
We
are
therefore
requesting
funding
from
the
mental
health
work,
support,
89%
of
a1,
full-time
social
workers
gallery
and
budgets.
We
need
the
city
as
a
funding
partner,
to
close
this
justice
gap
and
in
our
community
to
leverage
private
funds,
we're
so
thankful
for
all
of
the
support
and
partnership
that
we've
had
up
until
now
and.
R
J
I
just
wanted
to
make
a
comment.
What
always
impresses
me
about
your
applications
and
your
presentation
is
the
thing
that
we
look
for
is
how
funds
are
going
to
build
capacity
and
each
year,
when
you
guys
present,
you
say
this
is
gonna,
be
the
target,
and
then
you
come
back
the
next
year
and
you've
done
it,
and
that
happened
with
the
school
the
civics
clinic.
So
it's
no
surprise
to
me
that
you
had
that
165
percent
right
right.
J
J
I
thought
that
was
a
good
piece
of
the
application
right,
sir.
You
have
a
skill
set
and
I
guess
professional
characteristics
that
you
love
people,
but
it
wasn't
defined
by
profession
or
the
individual
right,
I
think
what's
gonna
fit
for
the
center
in
the
client
base
or
I
thought.
That's
a
smart
car,
interesting
yeah,
miss.
H
K
Posed
I,
don't
recall
it
as
opposed
by
imagery
or
CG,
but
in
our
response
we
said
that
we
had
received
two
$50,000
fellows
one
from
the
University
of
Chicago
School
of
Law
and
one
from
Pritzker
School
of
Law,
each
of
$50,000
for
a
postgraduate
one-year
fellowship.
We
like
many
legal
aid
agencies
to
seek
those
fellows
out
and
we
hit
the
jackpot.
Last
year
we
got
this
year.
We
got
none,
and
so
that's
why
that
line
cocktail
mm.
B
R
K
R
M
I'm
Debbie
Gaffney,
the
executive
director
of
Meals
on
Wheels
Northeastern
Illinois.
We
have
a
new
address
as
well
one
seven,
two
three
Simpson
our
web
address
is
also
new
meals
on
wheels
and
he
I
her
group
Eastern
Illinois
stat
org,
the
phone
numbers
stay,
the
same
eight
four,
seven,
three,
three,
two:
two:
six:
seventeen.
M
M
M
Was
so
important
to
to
have
this
location?
Like
I
said
we
needed
to
serve
far
more
people?
We've
been
serving
225-250
the
last
couple
of
years
and
have
been
maxed
out
with
all
of
our
food
providers,
so
trying
to
find
a
way
to
serve
more
people,
because
the
need
is
in
the
thousands.
So
this
is
something
that
we've
been
working
on
for
quite
some
time.
This
was
a
very
nice
location
for
a
number
of
reasons,
not
just
the
bones
of
the
kitchen,
but
also
the
community
that
it's
in
been
breakfast
and
family
focus.
M
You've
already
heard
from
to
find
ways
to
make
this
location
a
community
location
and
bring
the
kids
in
maybe
to
help
out
and
to
teach
in
some
cases,
but
also
to
make
sure
they
get
a
hot
breakfast
that
morning,
so
just
a
whole
lot
of
things
going
on
based
around
this
kitchen.
But
the
reason
that
you
all
know
us
is
because
we,
our
top
priority,
is
of
course
to
make
sure
our
seniors
are
fed
by
having
control
over
the
food
that
is
produced.
M
We
look
at
better
tasting
food,
better
quality
food,
we're
not
looking
for
just
meeting
the
nutritional
guidelines,
we're
looking
to
exceed
them,
so
we're
actually
working
on
a
couple
of
different
research
projects.
Hopefully
we'll
have
one
with
northwestern
as
well,
but
we're
working
on
one
that
has
to
do
with
loneliness
through
University
of
Chicago.
M
There
have
been
meals
on
those
programs
in
the
past
that
have
been
a
part
of
studies
to
look
at
what
is
it
about
this
visit
just
delivering
meals
that
only
beans
what
we
know
from
other
studies
that
the
visit
alleviates
loneliness
to
some
extent?
But
we
want
to
know
why.
So
that's
what
this
study
is
focused
on
and
I,
think
pretty
cool
action
stop
triggering
out
the.
Why
of
that,
but
also
looking
at
nutritional
in
taken
and
not
necessarily
I've
said
we.
M
Want
to
create
a
control
group
and
feed
a
group
of
people
crummy
foods,
but
but
to
be
able
to
look
at
of
the
research
that's
been
done.
How
can
we
serve
better
meals
than
other
programs
are
serving?
So
that's
pretty
exciting.
We
already
have
other
Meals
on
Wheels
programs
approaching
us
asking
and
produced
food
for
them.
These
are
all
additional
revenue
streams
that
can
help
make
the
organization
a
lot
more
sustainable,
which
goes
to
the
whole
idea
of
producing
really
good
food,
no
matter
what
you
can
afford
to
pay.
M
So,
as
you
know,
we've
had
60
Plus
percent
of
our
clients.
For
years
now
who
are
considered
low
income,
we
make
sure
people
give
food
and
pay
what
they
can.
That
doesn't
mean
it's
harming
food,
so
still
great
quality.
This
Center
location
also
allows
us
to
tighten
things
up
in
terms
of
logistics,
allows
us
to
tighten
things
up
in
terms
of
food
safety.
M
We
want
to
know
that
that
food
comes
fresh
right
off
the
line
we
have
an
hour
to
get
this
deliver
to
people.
We
don't
want
it
sitting
around
hoping
that
they
eat
it
right
away.
So
there's
there
a
whole
lot
of
checks
that
are
being
put
into
place
and
things
being
tightened
up
that
eyes
and
ears
that
volunteers
have
always
offered
over
the
last
51
years
for
our
program.
M
We
want
to
do
a
better
job
of
that
as
well.
So
more
computer,
aided
delivery
systems,
I
guess
is
the
best
way
to
put
it,
which
is
just
to
say
it's
a
basic
iPad
where
the
volunteer
will
click
the
button
saying
delivered
or
not
delivered,
and
what
is
the
client
okay
that
day
so
that
eyes
and
ears
piece?
M
That's
been
so
important
all
these
years,
but
this
location,
like
I,
said
also
provides
the
ability
to
engage
community
we'll
have
volunteers
coming
in
to
help
with
packaging
volunteers
will
be
able
to
actually
taste
the
food
that
they're
delivering
where
all
along
and
had
to
stay
packaged
up,
of
course,
or
food
safety
reasons
now
they'll
be
able
to
say.
Oh
you
want
that
today
after
taste
event,
that's
really
good.
So
just
all
those
little
pieces
are
really
coming
together
around
this
location,
so
we're
very
excited
about
it.
M
We've
grown
for
face
the
geographic
area
quite
a
bit
in
the
last
few
years,
and
that's
one
of
the
things
that
has
been
a
positive
thing,
of
course,
because
we
get
all
these
phone
calls
and
we
have
to
say
you
started
with
them,
deliver
in
that
area.
Now
we
can
but
yeah
definitely
clothes
away,
excuse
our
numbers
being
able
to
serve
more
people,
just
a
larger
them
their
period.
I.
Don't
know
that
that's
necessarily
going
to
change
the
percentages,
but
we
still
will
be
serving
more
festive
people
right,
so
I.
F
My
name
is
Betty
Bob
I'm,
the
executive
director
of
connections
for
the
homeless,
we're
located
at
21,
sweating
or
Dewey
in
Evanston.
Our
phone
number
is
eight
point:
seven,
four,
seven,
five:
seven
zero,
seven
zero.
My
email
is
BB.
Oh
GG
at
connect
the
number
to
home
that
organ.
That's
our
website
also
connect
to
home
fat
ward.
I
want
to
extend
my
deep
thanks
to
the
members
of
the
mouth
afford
and
Housing
and
Community
Development
Act
committee
for
considering
our
request
to
again
renew
our
partnership
by
supporting
connections
for
the
homeless,
outreach
and
drop-in
programs.
C
F
Told
you
that
we
expected
to
serve
two
hundred
and
seventy-five
of
Estonia's
through
these
programs.
In
fact,
we
are
on
track
to
serve
nearly
500,000
stoney
ins,
this
unity.
Thanks
to
our
partnership,
we
provide
Evanston's,
most
vulnerable
citizens,
access
to
basic
services
like
food,
clean
clothes,
showers,
laundry
and
physical
and
mental
health
care,
while
simultaneously
building
a
relation
so
that
we
make
em
do
their
homelessness
for
good.
Their
journey
can
be
frustratingly
slow
and
painful,
but
our.
F
Step
of
the
way
we
stand
ready
to
serve
the
man
who
is
spending
his
steaks
at
the
public
library
and
nights
sleeping
in
a
parking
garage
are
the
family
with
the
baby
who
recently
became
homeless
and
who
are
overwhelmed
by
the
stress
of
rotating
between
emergency
rooms
and
police
stations,
to
find
a
safe
place
to
sleep
for
the
elderly
woman
who
is
disabled
and
living
in
the
park.
These
are
real
examples
of
people
we
know
and
with
whom
we
have
deep
relationships
and
we
are
seeing
significantly
more
people
than
just
a
year
ago.
F
On
average,
we
are
now
seeing
approximately
four
new
people
every
day
at
just
one
of
our
two
drop-in
locations
to
accommodate
this
growing
demand
connections
has
also
grown
our
service
team.
In
the
last
nine
months,
we
hired
a
second
outreach
specialist
increased
our
psychiatric
clinic
hours
and
recruited
even
more
volunteers
to
help
manage
our
spaces
and
connect
participants
to
basic
services.
F
Offices
in
the
fifth
Ward,
as
a
second
drop-in
location,
in
addition
to
our
primary
location
of
Hilda's
place
at
Lake,
Street
Church.
Our
administrative
offices
on
Dewey
Avenue,
are
now
open,
Monday
through
Friday
and
our
accessible
space
for
people
with
physical
disabilities
and
families
who
can
access
showers.
Our
food.
C
C
F
To
share
story
of
a
participant
who
was
recently
housed.
Tara
has
multiple
health
challenges
that
were
getting
harder
to
manage.
She
was
living
on
the
street.
She
started
to
come
to
our
drop-in
center
at
the
Lake
Street
Church
nearly
every
day
about
a
year
ago,
and
our
registered
nurse
and
mental
health
specialist
quickly
built
a
relationship
with
her.
K
F
F
To
check
in
with
them
and
offer
support
and
services,
and
eventually
when
they
ready,
they
will
allow
us
in
that's
just
the
start
of
the
hard
work.
But
without
that
start
there
is
no
happy
ending
relationships
matter,
they're
at
the
heart
of
our
work,
helping
people
move
forward
on
their
path
to
overcome
crisis
by
offering
their
services
with
a
non-judgmental,
trauma-informed
approach.
We
build
the
trust
that
makes
those
relationships
and
progress
toward
housing
possible.
F
C
F
J
I
am
you
know
we
never
want
to
be
impressed
when
something
jumps
from
275
to
500
right
when
it's
we're
talking
about
no
serving
this
population
group,
but
the
fact
that
you've
been
able
to
do
that
is
really
impressive.
Reason.
Is
that,
due
to
an
increased
need
or
just
your
increased
capacity
to
serve
like
with
the
new
the
admin
office?
Is
it
just
that
you
have
more
space
or
I
I.
F
Think
there
is
increased,
need
I,
think
also,
when
you
know
social
services,
scrappy
social
service
agencies
like
ours
and
back
ourselves
into
a
corner.
We
approach
things
with
a
perspective
of
scarcity,
and
so,
rather
than
saying,
we
can
only
give
out
30
lunches
today,
because
I
thought
the
lunches
we
have,
what
if
we
asked
for
people
to
make
us
more
lunches,
and
so
when
we
do
that,
we
see
people
utilizing
these
services,
so
I
believe
that
that
need
was
there
a
lot
of
it
was
there.
F
We've
really
worked
on
our
own
approach
to
equity
and
making
sure
that
we
are
accessible
to
people
in
the
sense
that
they're
not
going
to
get
traumatized
just
by
talking
to
us,
which
is
not
always
the
case
with
social
service
agencies,
so
I
think
it's
a
combination
of
factors,
but
certainly
it's
you
know
it's
almost
any.
If,
when
you
open
your
doors,
people
will
come
absolutely
yeah.
J
C
L
J
K
I
Q
Good
evening
my
name
is
Terry
chef,
Chuck
and
I'm.
The
government
grants
manager
with
the
harbor
and
with
me
this
evening
as
Mary
Burke
Peterson
development
associate,
the
harbor
is
requesting
funds
for
our
safe
harbor
emergency
shelter.
Our
phone
number
is
eight
four,
seven,
two,
nine
seven,
eight
five,
four.
C
Q
First
of
all,
I
just
want
to
think
thank
you
for
your
current
support.
This
here
is
been
our
first
year
of
funding
from
the
mental
health
court
at
CVG,
and
we
certainly
do
appreciate
your
partnership
in
a
drug
thing.
That
community
needs
a
few.
As
you
may
know,
the
harbour
has
been
in
the
community
for
over
45
years
and
we
provide
emergency
shelter,
transitional
housing
and
supportive
services
to
homeless
youth
and
the
northern
summers
are
safe.
Q
Q
Q
Finally,
I
know
that
the
committee
has
some
questions
on
the
specifics
of
how
we
have
lowered
our
barriers
to
accessibility
and
I
just
wanted
to
elaborate
a
little
bit
on
our
response
to
that.
What
we
realized
was
that
unintentionally,
our
previous
intake
process
was
filtering
out
many
youth,
so
that
essentially,
we
were
really
taking
only
the
best
of
the
best
at
little
most
population,
and
that
is
certainly
not
in
our
mission.
Q
Recent
drug
use,
so
sale,
suicidal,
ideation
and
transfer
from
a
mental
health
facility
for
all
situations
that
previously
could
preclude
acceptance
into
our
shelter.
Now
we
have
a
process
that
basically
asks
two
questions.
Are
you
within
the
age
range
that
we
serve
and
are
you
female
or
it's
as
feisty
female?
Those
answers
are
yes,
we
bring
youth
and
immediately
to
the
shelter
for
24
hours,
where
we
provide
food.
C
K
Q
Assess
for
next
steps.
Our
goal
is
to
intervene
at
the
start
of
homelessness
and
to
alter
the
path
for
youth
experience
and
housing
and
stability,
regardless
of
what
circumstances
they
face,
because
we
believe
that
each
of
our
youth
has
a
value
and
potential
we're
committed
to
helping
you
that
she
was
potential.
And
we
thank
you
for
your
support
and
making
as
possible
and
the
opportunity
to
apply
again.
B
Again,
stamp
Russia
I'm
asking
everyone
so
I'm,
looking
at
the
summary,
which
shows
represents
10%
of
your
population
served
and
when
I
look
through
your
budget,
I
see
the
different
targets
that
come
from
this
to
the
audience
and
so
just
help.
You
understand
how
you
prioritize
Evanston
residents,
just
given
the
transition
of
all
your
clients
coming
in
you
I.
Let
you
talk
before
sure.
Q
C
B
J
J
A
J
A
B
Q
Q
N
Thank
you
thank
you
for
supporting
us
for
so
many
years.
In
so
many
different
ways.
My
voice
right.
My
name
is
Susan
Murphy
and
I'm,
the
executive
director
of
interfaith
a
from
Evanston
and
that
is
I
a
and
then,
if
they've,
actually
devasting.
That
word
and
our
website
and
the
office
is
at
channel
4.
We
went,
but
we
use
sites
throughout
downtown.
Edmundston
phone
number
is
eight
percent.
Eight
six
nine
over
300
we're
made
of
forty
one
of
the
faith
communities
in
Evanston
and
briefly
we
do
the
morning
hospitality
Center
at
st.
N
Mark's
Church,
where
we
have
employment,
counseling
and
computer
room
breakfast
and
a
place
for
people
to
the
press.
We
do
the
soup
kitchens
in
Evanston,
either
directly
by
interfaith
action
or
by
communities
who
are
members
of
internet'.
Actually,
we
have
at
least
one
every
day
we
do.
The
warming
centers
in
Evanston
their
afternoon
centers
they
open
next
Monday
and
they'll,
go
through
March
and
there's
one
every
afternoon.
C
N
Different
communities,
we
do
the
produce
mobile
and
asthma
going
hiking
for
six
years,
but
it's
at
Robert
crown
and
partnership
with
the
Greater
Chicago
Food
Depository
and
we
serve.
We
get
200
300
people
every
month
who
get
a
lot
of
fresh
produce
and
for
the
last
nine
months,
we've
also
been
doing
one
add
fleet
which
are
gain
and
we're
working
with
this
proof
depository
to
see.
N
If
we
can
continue
to
do
that
and
we
do
the
overnight
emergency
shelter,
and
that
is
what
we
are
asking
for
funding
for
so
14
years
ago
we
opened
an
emergency
overnight,
shelter
at
st.
Paul's
Church
and
we
opened
when
the
temperature
dropped
to
zero.
So
we
were
only
open,
maybe
10,
to
12
times
a
year,
and
we
served
about
20
people
who
would
come
to
that
four
years
ago,
five
other
faith
communities
joined
us
and
we
raised
the
temperature
to
15
degrees
and
amount
of
people.
We
were
serving
went
up
as
well.
N
We
knew
we'd
be
opening
in
November,
a
homeless
woman
died
on
the
steps
of
one
of
our
host
churches
and
that
church
said
that
they
would
make
a
special
one-time
donation
so
that
we
could
open
the
shelter
every
night
in
memory
of
Daisy,
and
so
we
did
beginning
in
mid
December
of
last
year
and
scrambled,
but
we
got
it
together
and
we
were
open
all
winter
through
March
and
we,
our
numbers,
went
up.
We
had
an
average
of
36
people
who
came
because
they
know
they
knew
we
would
be
open
each
night.
N
During
the
karora
text
we
had
48
people
and
just
as
an
aside
that
was
really
crowded,
we
happened
to
be
at
first
press.
We,
you
know
everybody
who
wanted
to
some
of
the
people
that
understand
sleep
outside
by
choice,
but
when
it
was
that
cold,
even
they
didn't
know,
stay
outside
and
I
spoke
with.
I,
don't
see
his
name
Mike
with
a
brand
new
Human
Service,
says
director
last
week
before
he
was
that
person
and
we're
working
on
a
plan
for
the
city
of
Evanston
to
help
us
on
most
nights.
N
When
we
have
an
emergency,
we
can
handle
the
winter,
but
really
we
can't
handle
it
as
well
when
there's
an
emergency,
so
we're
working
on
a
plan
together
this
year.
That
shelter
will
be
open
on
November
17th
a
week
from
Sunday
and
will
be
open
through
the
end
of
March.
Each
one
of
the
communities
gave
us
three
consecutive
weeks,
so
it
should
be
easier
for
people.
They
won't
have
to
go
from
place
to
place
as
often
they'll
have
three
straight
weeks
at
one
at
one
community
we
have
a
large
group
of
volunteers.
N
We
have
260
volunteers
now
that
are
signed
up
just
for
the
overnight
shelter
and
we're
looking
for
more.
There
are
three
volunteer
shifts
from
8:00
to
10:00
at
night
volunteers
come
in
and
help
set
up
the
cots.
They
greet
the
people,
our
guests
come
in
at
nine
o'clock.
We
have
hot
drinks
and
get
a
blanket
and
a
cotton
them
and
find
out
where
they
get
to
sleep
at
9:30.
Another
volunteer
comes
in.
C
N
Spends
the
night
this
year
we're
going
to
have
two
staff
people,
which
is
one
reason
the
expense
has
increased,
but
because
of
being
open
every
night
and
having
more
people
than
we
have
before.
It's
just,
in
my
opinion,
a
safety
issue
to
have
two
professional
people
there
every
night
to
help
us
with
our
guests,
and
then
we
also
have
volunteers
to
come
in
the
morning
to
wake
people
and
help
clean
up
and
we're
out
of
that.
N
C
N
Everyone
should
have
a
home,
not
just
one
night,
but
every
night,
I
really,
that
is
something
connections,
works
on
really
well
and
then
whatever
gets
to
me
that
people
without
homes
in
Chicago
are
called
homeless,
people
and
I'm
sure
I've
called
them
homeless.
People
as
well,
but
he
said
in
Evanston,
we
are
a
homeless
community
and
my
hope
is
that
one
day
we
can
get
rid
of
that
word
homeless
and
I'll
be
part
of
the
same
Evanston
community.
So
thank
you
for
helping
us
reach
or
move
toward
Bethel.
A
O
O
O
It
began
as
a
support
group
in
the
1990s
and
has
quickly
grown
into
a
comprehensive
program
to
assess
to
assist
these
special
families
made
up
of
25
grandparents
and
eighty
seven
kids
grandchildren
that
range
from
birth
to
age.
Eighteen,
when
the
children
graduate
from
high
school,
they
graduate
from
the
program.
C
O
Which
provides
ongoing
counseling
for
emotional
support
and
support
in
identifying
financial
resources
which
could
be
energy
assistance.
Farmers
market
coupons,
taxi
assistance,
referrals
for
legal
assistance,
we
also
utilize
gap
funding
and
between
the
crafts
funding
to
help
with
things
like
bedding,
clothing,
emergency,
rent
assistance,
things
like
that,
we
don't
exist
in
a
vacuum.
We
can't
serve
everybody
by
ourselves,
so
we
work
in
coordination
with
other.
O
In
Evanston,
for
example,
we
have
a
successful
annual
resource,
fair
that
we
organize
with
family
focus.
Our
Grandparents
Program
provides
educational,
there's,
an
educational
component
that
covers
issues
like
child
behavior
and
psychology.
We
talked
about
legal
concerns,
medical
issues,
positive
parenting,
styles
and
stress
relief,
and
while
the
factual
information
is
being
disseminated
during
these
lectures
is
valuable
to
the
participants
as
they're
learning
making
social
connections
with
other
grandparents.
O
The
program
also
has
educational
activities
for
the
kids,
while
their
grandparents
are
meeting.
We
also
try
to
have
some
fun
with
the
kids,
so
we
have
an
annual
summer
event.
A
holiday
party
that
there's
also
the
annual
resource,
fair
and
there's
gift
cards
to
help
with
school
supplies,
respite
care
and
counseling.
So
that
is
the
Grandparents
Program.
O
Social
services
for
seniors
and
their
families
again
we're
thankful
for
the
ongoing
support
of
the
Mental
Health
Board.
For
that
those
programs
we
established
and
they
have
been
maintained
in
the
office
here
at
the
Civic
Center
since
2016,
it's
staffed
by
our
older
adults,
benefit
specialists,
the
Senior
Services
Coordinator,
a
team
of
volunteers
and
various
staff
from
the
senior
family
services
to
perfect
also
meet
people
here.
O
C
O
C
O
Assistance,
enrollment
events,
Medicare
open,
enrollment
events,
we
also
receive
3-1-1
calls
and
we
receive
referrals
front
of
the
city.
The
levy
sign
has
been
an
ongoing
partner.
That
generously
allows
us
to
have
meetings
in
their
space.
The
grandparents
raising
grandchildren
program,
low
vision,
support
group
and
caregiver
support
group
on
the
of
the
monthly.
O
Our
older
adults
benefit
specialist
support,
six
volunteers
in
the
office
here,
and
they
help
residents
secure
benefits
through
different
programs
such
as
benefits
access,
Medicare,
Energy
Assistance.
We
completed
two
hundred
and
sixty
five
energy
assistance
applications
last
fiscal
year
in
this
office.
We
help
people
also
get
food
stamps
and
other
public
benefits.
O
We
again,
we
see
people
in
their
homes.
We
also
work
with
people
to
provide
case
management
services,
caregivers
support,
respite
support
groups,
benefits
assistance
and
we
enjoy
collaborating
with
city
staff
to
make
sure
and
other
social
services
providers
within
the
community
to
make
sure
we're
maximizing
some
services
for
city
residents
and
in
effective
manner.
I
L
Do
this
Norfolk
Senior
Center?
This
is
my
first
opportunity
to
address
this
group,
but
even
though
I've
only
been
in
North
Shore
for
ten
months,
I
know
how
grateful
we
are
to
partner
with
the
city
and
for
your
ongoing
support.
I'm
here
to
talk
about
the
hate
girl,
health
application
that
we've
made
to
the
mental
health
ward.
This
will
be
the
third
year
North
Shore
Senior
Center,
as
Kathy
said,
meets
the
needs
of
older
adults
through
a
variety
of
programs
and
services.
Wherever
that
person's
needs
happen
to
fall
on
the
aging
well
continuum,
some
of.
C
L
Older
adults
struggle
with
the
sense
of
loss
and
grief
that
it
can
accompany
growing
older.
We
realized
that
there
was
a
need
that
wasn't
being
met
as
well
as
we'd
like
to
see
admit
so.
We
created
and
have
continued
to
work
on
developing
our
senior
options,
which
is
a
subsidiary
of
North
Shore,
Senior
Center.
It
is
in
addition
to
behavioral
health
services.
It
provides
daily
money,
management,
care
management
and
guardianship
services
that
operates
more
on
the
fee
for
service
basis
than
our
state-funded
programs
through
senior
and
Family
Services.
L
For
the
counseling
services
in
particular,
both
Medicare
and
supplemental
insurance
can
be
built
when
appropriate.
We
also
have
a
sliding
scale
for
those
in
need
without
coverage.
This
centers
licensed
practitioners
treat
primarily
depression,
anxiety
and
adjustment
disorders,
with
consultation
from
psychiatrists
and
psychologists.
It
provides
these
services
either
in
our
main
office
in
Northfield
or
in
the
seniors
home
and
95%
of
the
Edmundston
that
we
see
we
see
in
their
homes,
which
decreases
the
barriers
that
they
have
to
obtaining
care
and
really
which
it's
part
of
where
the
that
gap.
I
L
In
service
was
getting
mental
health
services
to
seniors
in
their
home,
so
we
are
able
to
do
that.
We
measure
outcomes
of
the
work
that
we're
doing
through
the
patient
Health
Questionnaire,
so
we
administer
that
questionnaire.
It's
the
depression,
screening
tool
at
the
start
of
service
and
then,
as
they
approach
the
end
of
service.
So
far,
we've
seen
positive
outcomes
in
everyone
that
we've
served,
which
is
incredible.
I
can
I
come
from
Kenneth
Kaunda
Center,
which
is
a
mental
health
center.
L
Sadly,
and
I
think
it's
really
the
most
important
thing
that
I
think
we
can
do
is
help
people
deal
with
their
depression
and
their
anxiety
in
a
way
that
allows
them
to
re-engage
in
the
community,
because
I
think
someone
else
mentioned
it
tonight.
Isolation
and
loneliness
are
really
what
drives
so
many
of
the
chronic
illnesses
that
seniors
are
experiencing.
My
favorite
quote
about
that
is
that
loneliness
is
the
fertilizer
of
so
many
chronic
diseases
and
I.
Think
that's
absolutely
true.
C
K
J
J
L
L
Did
you
guys
do
differently?
Well,
I
think
you
all
know.
We've.
Probably
many
of
you
have
met
Liz
Gordon,
who
was
the
recently
retired
and
not
be
tired,
she's
moving,
unfortunately,
so
it's
our
in-laws
I'm
sure
she'll
find
a
new
gig
in
North
Carolina,
but
I
think
liz
is
focused
and
her
energy
and
her
guidance
for
the
the
team
that
was
in
place
really
helped
them
she'd
only
been
there
two
or
three
years
waiting
to
see
the
fruits
of
all
the
labors
that
she's
into
it's
pretty.
C
A
C
G
My
name
is
person
Johanns
and
I
am
the
director
of
clinical
services
and
quality
assurance?
In
fact,
Behavioral
Health,
Partners
and
I
am
here
with
my
colleague
and
a
sack
who
is
the
manager
of
the
Employment
Program.
We
are
here
from
here
with
all
partners
and
we
are
located
at
2100,
Ridge
Avenue
in
sweet
cheese,
reach,
20
I'm
here
in
Evanston.
Our
website
is
www.pevs.com.
G
G
To
the
community,
and
those
in
need
really
appreciative
of
it,
we're
here
to
talk
about
we're
requesting
funds
from
the
Mental
Health
Board
for
our
clinical
services
program
and
funding
from
CDBG
our
Employment
Services
program.
So
I'll
talk
a
little
bit
about
our
clinical
program
and
then
I'll
hand
it
over
to
Anna.
Who
will
talk
more
in
depth
about
the
appointment
program.
G
Our
Global
Services
program
focuses
on
providing
individualized
and
person-centered
mental
health
support
to
adults
with
chronic
mental
health
conditions
in
order
to
manage
our
recovery,
attain
their
personal
goals
and
live
a
meaningful
life
in
the
community.
Our
clinical
program
is
comprised
of
five
masters
level,
clinicians,
a
nurse,
a
benefits
specialist
and
any
contract
psychiatrist.
The
majority
of
the
services
that
we
provide
our
home
base
and
range
anywhere
from
peace
management,
skills,
training
to
more
traditional
counseling
and
therapy,
as
well
as
more
specialized
trauma
based
therapies
such
as
EMDR.
G
Services
and
participants
are
doing
well
and
you'd
love
support,
but
we
also
do
scale
them
up
with
frequency.
Even
our
participants
are
in
need
of
more
support
at
that
time.
10
we
utilize
evidence-based
practices
such
as
trauma
informed
care,
our
reduction
in
a
housing
first
model
to
provide
clinically
appropriate
services
and
with
the
support
of
our
clinical
services,
we
see
that
our
participants.
D
G
Able
to
demonstrate
progress
and
housing
stability,
symptom
management
and
symptom
reduction,
improved
relationships
with
their
in
social
dynamics
and
family,
improve
implementation
of
their
cooking
skills
and
overall
improvements
in
their
quality
of
life.
So
the
generous
support
of
the
Mental
Health
Board
funding
over
the
years
has
allowed
us
to
maintain
a
full-time
nurse
on
staff
and
act
on
a
whole
program
out
and
have
new
nurse
as
part
of
our
interdisciplinary
team
is
such
a
vital
component
of
providing
a
well-rounded
and
comprehensive
services
to
our
participants.
G
Many
of
our
participants
have
extremely
complex
needs,
such
as
a
combination
of
mental
health
needs,
physical
health
needs
substance,
abuse
needs
as
well
as
significant
trauma
histories,
and
many
of
our
participants
that
come
into
our
agency
have
experience.
It's
so
expensive
years
of
homelessness,
which
often
is
coupled
with
inadequate
medical
care
over
those
years
as
well.
So
our
nurse
is
able
to
meet
with
our
participants
individually
on
intake
to
develop
a
baseline
assessment
of
their
medical
and
their
physical
health
needs.
C
G
Well,
as
exploring
areas
for
improving
healthy
habits,
our
nursing
services
are
individualized
in
person-centered
as
well,
and
they
range
from
basic
vital
screen
needs
to
education,
referrals
to
actual
support
during
appointments
and
procedures.
Our
narcissist
many
participants
with
communicating
effectively
with
problem
providers
with
learning
how
to
add
or
accurately
share
medical
concerns
and
with
understanding
treatment
recommendation,
as
well
as
test
results
and
our
nurses,
a
large
role
in
medication,
management
and
understanding
for
many
of
our
purchase
and
as
well
as
a
liaison
between
the
pharmacy,
the
multiple
providers
and
participants
when
issues
do
arise.
G
And
then
we
feel
that
our
clinical
services,
just
as
three
of
the
four
funding
priorities
of
the
mental
health
boards
developed
such
a
by
providing
long-term
mental
health
services,
case
management
and
stable
housing
for
marginalized
populations.
And
we
feel
that,
with
your
continued
support,
we'll
be
able
to
continue
providing
such
an.
S
Impact
and
our
Employment
Program
is
funded
by
the
Community
Development
Block
Grants,
and
that
that
was
support.
We've
been
able
to
consistently
grow
the
capacity
of
our
program
while
maintaining
the
excellent
quality
of
our
services.
We
expected
it
to
need
the
growth
through
the
development
of
new
car,
such
as
the
collaboration
we
have
developed
with
earring
family
health
centers.
In
fact,
we'll
be
working
closely
with
ears
behavioral
health
centers
to
provide
employment
services
to
irrigations
Erie.
S
C
S
For
the
nation
is
48
percent,
so
we
were
loved
about
that.
Maybe
7%
of
those
maintains
their
employment
for
90
days
and
then
77
percent
maintain
employment
for
six
months.
So
those
are
just
kind
of
a
couple,
just
facts
of
our
program
that
I
wanted
to
share
with
you
guys
and
give
any
questions
we
have
answer.
A
Presentation
I
want
to
thank
you
everybody
for
being
here
and
thank
you
for
the
work
that
you're
doing
I
would
say
that
this
is
probably
this
process.
These
meetings
they're
they're
my
favorite
meetings,
because
it's
just
an
excellent
reminder
of
how
much
incredible
work
is
going
on
in
our
community,
and
you
know:
I
realized
that
were
just
a
small
part
of
much
of
it,
but
you.
A
To
be
part
of
a
community
that
cares
so
deeply
about
the
rest
of
the
rest
of
our
city,
so
grateful
to
them.
So
thank
you.
All.
We
have
one
short
item
on
the
agenda.
Don't
spend
too
much
time
on
it,
but
they
were
just
want
to
draw.
It
was
attention
to
this.
This
is
on
page
153
of
our
packet,
but
you
know
I,
think
the
news
and
news
cycles
like
to
focus
on
who
tweeted
what
quietly
behind
the
tweets
there
are
things
like
a
proposal.
A
A
A
J
B
When
we
consider
a
year
award
our
board
people
are
providing
and
making
sure
others
and
residents
are
doing
the
services
that
they
need.
I
mean
this
year
were
forced
enough.
We're
not
going
to
lay
off
any
staff,
we're
also
not
going
to
cut
any
services,
but
for
everyone
sitting
around
table
raise
our
property
taxes,
and
so,
if
we're
going
to
continue
to
fund
these
services,
let's
make
sure
that
our
community
is
benefiting
from
it
and
so
I
think
it's
a
much
broader
discussion
more
than
you
can
tackle
tonight.