1. Ten-Year Plan Goals and Strategies for Year 5
The TYP office has been working with its advisory board to shape goals and strategies for year 5 of the TYP’s implementation. These goals and strategies will drive a detailed work plan, presently in development, that will inform the day-to-day activities of the TYP office for the next year.
Goal #1: The TYP Office will focus its communications strategy to: (1) educate the citizens of Knoxville and Knox County regarding the importance and value of ending chronic homelessness; (2) foster an open communications environment with on-going dialogue between the citizens of Knoxville and Knox County and the TYP staff; and (3) build consensus and develop community champions for the TYP that will help the city, county, and TYP staff effectively achieve the plan’s objectives.
Goal #2: The original TYP to End Chronic Homelessness will be updated through a “center-out” process which will involve all community stakeholders.
Goal #3: The Ten Year Plan Office will partner with other organizations to ensure that permanent appropriate housing options are increased.
The TYP will complete this work plan and present and discuss it at the next TYP Advisory Board meeting, on September 24.
2. TYP Speakers Bureau developing
One way we hope to reach neighborhood groups, civic groups, service clubs and other community organizations is through a speakers bureau made up of supporters of the TYP. If you know of any such organization you would like for us to contact about speaking, would you please let us know?
Please email your suggestions to me or to Robert Finley.
3. Public conversation reminder; request for input on locations
You are respectfully invited, as always, to the next community conversation meeting which is scheduled at the Cansler YMCA on Wednesday, August 25 from 6-7pm and will address the topic of addiction treatment in the community as that treatment relates to the TYP.
We would also like to solicit your input on good potential locations for these important meetings. The Cansler YMCA is a wonderful venue. It’s easy to get to, the meeting room is a good size, parking is easy, the location is central enough, and the price is right (free). The people there are also very good to work with. We have, however, received feedback from more than one person that it would be nice if we could move our public conversations around the community instead of staying with one location.
We’d like to get some input from you on some other good locations for public conversations about the TYP. As much as we can, we’d like to keep them relatively close to the center of the city for the sake of convenience. We need meeting space that can accommodate 40-70 attendees, with reasonably comfortable seating. It is best if we can avoid large open spaces like gymnasiums because it’s much easier to hear in smaller rooms. Any sort of building is fine: church, office building, community center, union hall, etc. Cost is a factor—we’d like to keep it as low as possible. We can do our own setup and bring our own sound equipment.
If you have ideas, please pass them on to Robert Finley.
Thank you
Thank you for taking the time to be engaged with the issue of homelessness and our community’s work to address it. If you have questions or concerns about anything related to the TYP, please do not hesitate to let us know.