Homelessness prevention database - help requested (fwd)

Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:04:05 -0300 (ADT)
From: "Andrew D. Wright" <awright@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: ccn-ip@chebucto.ns.ca
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	This looks like something the IP committee could help out with.

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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:42:37 -0400
From: Havi Echenberg <havi@havidave.com>
To: Office@chebucto.ns.ca
Cc: "Samuel Muli (E-mail)" <smuli@chat.carleton.ca>
Subject: Homelessness prevention database - help requested

Hello!  I'm directing the development of a national homelessness prevention
strategy for Raising the Roof (http://www.raisingtheroof.org), a national
charitable organization dedicated to finding solutions for Canada's
homeless.  One of our first tasks was to create a web-searchable database of
existing programs and initiatives with homelessness prevention as one of its
significant goals.  One or more of the programs in our database are
administered by your organization.

Our current task is to verify the information in the database; all came from
print references, from literature (brochures, etc) submitted to us, or from
Internet references.  As we hope to launch this database in late September
or early October, we'd appreciate your verifying the information provided in
our database.  The record associated with your agency - health outreach for
homeless men - can be found at
http://www.raisingtheroof.org/display.php3?this=275&sector=&subsector=&proje
ct=.  (If you need to receive the record information by fax, e-mail or
"snail" mail, let us know, and we'll send it off to you.)


An additional piece of information we'd like to add is "lessons learned".
Since the intention of this database is to provide information about what
has already been tried.  If you would be willing to give us 20-30 words on
what you've learned since you started, that would be a very significant and
valuable contribution to others looking to the example you've provided.
Also, we'll be following up with ten per cent or more of the records
(programs) listed, to prepare one- or two-page case studies.  If you're
interested in having a case study created of your program, please let us
know!

We’d appreciate your response to the following questions:
1.	Is the information listed in our database accurate?
2.	If not, could you provide the corrections in email, or would you prefer
to have us contact you by telephone to record the changes?
3.	Can you provide a brief "lessons learned" addition?  If so, again, would
you like to be contacted by phone, rather than submitting it in writing?
4.	Are you interested in being considered for one of our limited number of
case studies?
5.	Do you have or know of other programs that should be added?

Thank you so much for your help!  Please return replies to
smuli@chat.carleton.ca. We look forward to working with you on this project,
and hope you'll find the database useful for your own purposes.

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