Subject: Setting our priorities for 2016-2017
Hello everyone. I want to provide an update on yesterday's meeting and let you know next steps for the committee.
1. Our new chairs are Adrienne Walnoha and Chris Berg. Amy Adams had volunteered to be Secretary at our last meeting and we hope she is still interested. We reviewed the name change again: Education and Communications Committee. The committee is focused on reducing stigma, education around housing instability and homelessness, policy impact and raising community awareness.
2. Our event was very nice but not as well attended as we would like so the group felt we should develop strategies to go into the community instead of having the community come to us.
3. Bricolage continues to be interested in engaging with us. We will be attending Word Play on the 15th and 16th to be exposed to more ideas from Bricolage's work. Adrienne has two tickets available to folks with lived experience for the 15th. Let her know if you have a person who would like to go.
4. The HSPEAC forum is not being well used. The group brainstormed and decided we wanted to populate some content and drive traffic to the site. Peter will be sending us our homework on this. Please be sure to read his email and take action!
5. The group decided to focus on two prongs of the 2015 committee plan which is attached: stigma reduction/engagement through art and the development of a website that not only educates but rethinks housing instability and homelessness while highlighting lived experience, facts, policy issues and community connections. To this end, we will be splitting into two passion fueled subgroups for April and May: Art and Tech. These two groups will convene and do brainstorming/planning for efforts in those two arenas. Then in June, we will come back together as a group to cross pollinate, plan and finalize strategies for the year (including action steps and project leads).
a. The June meeting would be a lunch/planning session Wednesday, June 11 from 11-1:30.
b. The administrative lead for the Art group will be Peter Harvey (—email removed—) and for Tech is Adrienne Walnoha (—email removed—). Please let Peter or Adrienne or Both know if you are interested in their group. They will then do a poll to get meeting times established.
