Theresa Power-Drutis, Greg Walker and I met yesterday afternoon with Linda Stewart, Director of Neighborhood & Community Services and her staff along with Rob Huff representing Pamela Duncan, MDC. These are my notes from that meeting - I did not take time to ask Linda to review and approve but if there are errors, I will forward the corrections to you.  I wanted to get some good news into your in-boxes today.

1.  Status of the Encampment in People's Park

Linda and Elizabeth Pauli, the City Manager, have visited the people living on the parking strips at People's Park, whom Linda calls the Park Dwellers.  The City has provided dumpsters which are emptied regularly, sorta potties, a hand washing station.  Linda is working with the leadership of the Park Dwellers.  The City will compensate Park Dwellers to manage use of the amenities.  The leadership of the Park Dwellers have agreed that they will not replace anyone who moves out.  4 or 5 people living in the encampment have requested the Stability Site and the City is working to help them move there.  I believe the City has also improved lighting but I did not write down the details - only that it was clear that the City is not just talking to the Park Dwellers but listening as well.

The City has identified the corner of S. 8th and Martin Luther King as the potential site of an emergency mitigation shelter - this is the same designation the Stability Site has - and the City hopes to secure use of the land for the next 8 months.  This should happen when the Tacoma Community Redevelopment Authority (TCRA) meets Thursday morning to consider and hopefully approve this interim use of the land which has already been scheduled for affordable housing development by Mercy Housing.  Once the land is secure, the City departments involved will meet to discuss their plan for moving forward and Linda will let us know what type of shelter this site will provide and who the operator will be.  This site will be for the established Park Dwellers at People's Park.

I felt that Linda spoke with respect for the people living in People's Park and the community they have formed. "Park Dwellers" is the term she used which I like.  She also acknowledged the very real issue of drug use.

Tacoma Police will monitor People's Park for drug activities.

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Jennice Foy, MFT, CDPT, FFT

Juvenile Rehabilitation Coordinator

Functional Family Therapist

Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families

Region 3 Tacoma Office

Jennice.foy@dcyf.wa.gov

253 476-7118

 

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It is voting day in Washington. Pierce County and the State have recently made changes to allow anyone to vote who is eligible to vote, whether they are registered ahead of election day or not. Every library branch can assist folks to get registered, get a replacement ballot, and to vote. Let’s make sure our clients (and our coworkers) know about this opportunity, and that we help them get to any Tacoma, Puyallup, or Pierce County library so they can vote. Democracy has its privileges, and its obligations.    Below is some additional information presented by the Pierce County Auditor last Friday:

 

Voting in Pierce County

·         Julie Anderson, Pierce County Auditor - pcauditor@co.pierce.wa.us

·         This Information is just for Pierce County – mostly

·         Long term changes

o   Voter Registration Portal – the State went from a County by County to a  giant, top-down voter registration system.  I no longer own pierce county voters – I own all 4 million Washington State voters.  All the County Auditors co-manage that new portal.  I have visibility in King County, Clackamas County, etc.  

o   The Portal is at https://votewa.gov/ - you and your customers can go there –

§  you can do self-serve so much of what you need to do

·         Name change, no problem, go in and change it yourself.

·         Change your address

·         You can go there to register yourself. 

·         You can print your own replacement ballot if you’ve misplaced it. 

§  You can still come in to the election center, but much is self-service. 

§  Much of the information in the site comes from my office, just the voter rolls are shared.

§  Demo of https://votewa.gov/  – on-line for our military voters – can replace a ballot. 

·         Voter’s guide is available – you can see all the County issues – it is customized for just your ballot when you log in.  You can see local and state-wide information

·         You could see my ballot if I hadn’t voted.  Can actually mark the ballot on the computer and print it and submit normally. 

§  Available in Spanish, Vietnamese, and Korean

·         http://PierceCountyElections.org/ – local resources and one-on-one services

o   You can participate in your primary language – Spanish, Vietnamese or Korean.

o   Registration forms are available in Spanish, and a Spanish language video on how voting works in Washington State is available - https://youtu.be/63RtHM3DLbI

o   Brochure is available in the different languages – can be shared – put on  a website, e-mail, download,

·         Today we are moving to telephone lines – direct toll free numbers where callers are greeted in their primary language – I’m hoping that will be stood up by Monday, that phone number will be in language resources.  Your answer – http://PierceCountyElections.org/  – help  with primary language – resources are there.  Have a video about how to use the http://votewa.gov/  – we’ve done an instructional video in many primary languages. 

·         For the November election –we are in the 8-day period where on-line tools don’t work – need to come in in-person to register to vote.  In Pierce County, we’ve arranged for every single public library be an extension of our election center.  All 27 branches have trained library staff, kitted out, from opening to 8pm.  Anyone can walk in for any voting needs, such as:

o   Immediate registration – get a paper form which is filled out, the librarians verify eligibility over the phone, and then get a PDF packet is sent to the librarian, who prints it, the customer votes, and it gets submitted.  This is available on election day only.

o   Library staff are knowledgeable, friendly, and can access primary languages

o   On election day, Libraries are a great place to go if you’ve lost your ballot, or if you need help understanding it. 

o   We did a soft roll out in the libraries in  the August primary – for people that came to the library, we saved them 28 miles of travel time to our office to get the help they needed. 

·         I need to be back here more often

·         Al – could I create a ghost voters – say a “Glen Garfunkle”? What safeguards do you have in place to prevent that? Julie – don’t do that, it is a Class C felony with a $10,000 fine and 5 years of prison time.  When a library staff person calls in this information over the phone – we do checks against the other voter registrations, felony counts, and other checks. 

·         Felons – no longer in custody of department of corrections  - not confined, not under DOC supervision, have earned their franchise back – but need to re-register.  When they were convicted, their registration was cancelled.  If they are nervous about this, or confused about if they are in custody or not, we can verify their status. 

·         I brought a ton of felon cards for you last time – let me know if you need more.

·         Question – does restitution need to be paid?  Julie – no, you just have to making good faith efforts to pay it down, and there is a whole due process around this. 

·         Theresa – In Maine you can vote while incarcerated – any plan in Washington?  Julie – there is a caucus of Democratic Legislators doing background research on this – so there is a workgroup with the Secretary of State, the Department of Corrections, and more. 

·         Brandon – your scenario, if someone was registering with a similar name, what happens in that situation?  Julie- for a new registrant – we’d compare address, voting histories, birth dates.  We have lots of john smiths - and Julie Andersons.  We are used to doing this.  We like middle names to be included.

·         Maureen – Homeless people can vote – do we all know what to do? Julie – yes, send them to a library – they are all schooled up on this.  They will talk them through that process, and that they don’t need a residential address to vote.  They don’t need a residential address, just a mailing address.  We do need to know where you’re living – we have to precinct you. That residential location can be approximate, like the meeting of two streets. The mailing address is where we send future ballots- it can be a shelter, mother-in-law, payee.  We know people more around a lot.  We’ll inactivate people if ballots bounce – so they’ll  need to reactivate.  And you just call us or on election  day go to a  library. 

·         Do you have to wait until election day to go to a library?  Julie – yes.  We just want them to do it for the  13-hour period on one day. The libraries are for stranded voters.  We are the only county doing this, so there is lots of attention paid to their work.

·         Question –how do we get information on topics in the election?  Julie – ask a librarian.  It is in the librarian nature and training to help folks start researching candidates and issues on the web or by looking at voter pamphlets and such.

 

Gerrit F. Nyland

Director of Client Information Systems, SW

Catholic Community Services of Western Washington

gerritn@ccsww.org

Mobile: 253-304-5105

 

 Hello, we are once again preparing for our 6th Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner, please feel free to share.

Thank-You

Celebrity CEO Jeannette Twitty
House of Matthew Permanent & Supportive Housing
1127 Broadway #10 Tacoma WA 98402
Office Phone :253-301-0508 Fax:253-267-0565

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Date: Sun, November 03, 2019 11:13 pm
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Hello Colleagues!

As many of you know, Valeo Vocation has been BUSSSSY since placing our first workers, last September. In fact, we are so busy we've paid half a million dollars in wages to our low-income and homeless population, moving about a quarter of all participants into permanent employment AND housing!

We have recently brought on new staff and have FIVE internal staff members to serve the projected 400 participants we hope to place in 2020. And we continue to grow!

Due to the high volume of participants we are seeing, we are changing the structure of our weekly orientation. We are now requesting that all participants sign up ahead of time, in order to avoid over crowding. We have been seeing 30-40 people a week and we just don't have the staff to give everyone proper attention. 

So, that being said! Please have any referrals you may have sent our way call our office to get on orientation list. Our office number is: 253-301-2134.

Thank you! 

Good morning,

 

Attached is the calendar for the CRC.

 

Have a great day!

 

 

Pierce County District Court Resource Center

Connecting You to Services

Open Monday-Friday from 8:30 am to 11:30 am and 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm

901 Tacoma Avenue S

Tacoma, WA 98402

(253)-798-7631

PCDCRC@piercecountywa.gov

www.piercecountywa.gov/PCDCRC

 

Sorry, but Tracy is out sick today.

 

 

 

Good morning,

 

Attached is the calendar for the CRC.

 

Have a great day!

 

 

Pierce County District Court Resource Center

Connecting You to Services

Open Monday-Friday from 8:30 am to 11:30 am and 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm

901 Tacoma Avenue S

Tacoma, WA 98402

(253)-798-7631

PCDCRC@piercecountywa.gov

www.piercecountywa.gov/PCDCRC

 

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Hi Everyone, 

My client is needing help to pay for prescription $50 for suboxone? He thinks he might be able to pay for the following week by donating plasma then his SSDI after that. He runs out this Wednesday.

Anyone have ideas or can help?

Sincerely,

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Work: (253)355-9879

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Anyone know of resources available in the Thurston County area for a cancer patient in need of moving and storage expenses?

 

Thank you.

 

 

Charleen C. Fitzgerald, MA, CDP

Manager, Community Programs

 

 

1145 Broadway, Suite 300

Tacoma, WA 98402

Direct: 253-844-3154

Toll Free: 1-877-644-4613, ext 64754

Fax: 1-866-270-2631

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About Coordinated Care:

Coordinated Care is a managed care health plan founded in 2012. Through locally-grounded, coordinated care and support services, we are committed to improving the health of the community, one person at a time. Coordinated Care is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Centene Corporation, a national leader in healthcare services.  For more information, please visit us on the Web at www.coordinatedcarehealth.com

 

 

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House of Matthew Permanent & Supportive Housing in partnership with Urban Grace Church, 6th Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner on  Nov 28th, Thanksgiving Day at 11:00 am open to the community.

 traditional Thanksgiving Dinner with all the trimmings provided, entertainment, free hair cuts, clothing table & more.

Please feel free to share within your organization, clients and other community partners.

Please share the attached flyer.

Thank-You

Celebrity CEO Jeannette Twitty
House of Matthew Permanent & Supportive Housing
1127 Broadway #10 Tacoma WA 98402
Office Phone :253-301-0508 Fax:253-267-0565

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Yesterday morning a client at our youth center lost their service dog. This dog is a 50lbs red husky, with blue eyes (photo attached) she responds to the name Blue. She was lost on Yakima ave between 13th and 25th. If you see her please call 253-677-0102, or 253-328-3913.

 

 

 

Thank You,

Heather Fahsholtz

253-328-3913

 

M.J. Gruenewald (they/them/theirs)

Comprehensive Life Resources

FCS Supportive Housing Specialist

Cell: 253-254-8607 | Email: mgruenewald@cmhshare.org

"Remember that every day contains a universe of potential; exhaust it." - Dominic Owen Mallary

"Staffing, with a social purpose"

Mitchell J. Austin

Chief Program Officer

Mentor

(253)732-2966

https://www.valeovocation.org