Ending Homelessness: Video on Successes Across the Country
Through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Alliance to End Homelessness has made a new video available to the public for free. The video can be accessed here.
This 15-minute video serves as a collection of case studies, showing how different communities have adopted new approaches in line with the concept of Housing First. Columbus, OH, Washington, D.C., and Hennepin County, MN are featured along with other prominent advocates and researchers. The National Alliance is hoping that by offering this video for free, various groups will be able to use it for fundraising, educational purposes, and prompting discussion about how we work to end homelessness in our own communities. Many of the folks in this video appeared at United Way's Ending Homelessness: Housing First in Policy and Practice conference in October 2006. We are grateful to these leaders for sharing their vision and helping us learn to bring some of these ideas to Massachusetts. We are so excited to have this innovative work captured on video!
What do you think of this video? Does it provide you with new information? How should United Way use it, and in what circumstances? Will you share this video with others?
Liz, this is terrific. It's
Liz, this is terrific. It's a perfect description of our Housing First approach. I don't think it really provides any new information, but reinforces and validates what UWMBMV has been saying for almost three years.
Internally:
1. All of our staff should watch it - I'm pretty familiar with our housing work, and the video brings it alive for me in a new way. We should incorporate it into new hire orientation.
2. We should put a link to it on our web site, with a brief description of how we're providing leadership locally on the issue.
3. Fund raisers should send out a link with a personal note to any of their contacts who have expressed an interest in the issue.
4. For some period of time, run it continuously on one of the monitors in the conference center with a trailer describingthe local scene & our work.
Externally:
1. Send out to a list of legislators and their staffs with a description of what we, and other groups, are doing. It will be impotant to give credit to others becasue they deserve it, and we want people to know we're working in concert with others.
2. Send to local media outlets with the message, "For more information on what's hapening locally.
3. Maybe have a showing followed by a discussion at a Young Leaders event.
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