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FOR NOVEMBER 7
WENDY
SORENSEN
I read the following article and shared with
the group:
Voting Rights: Registration Manual. You don’t need a
Home to Vote. A report from National Coalition for the Homeless. This report is designed to provide ideas to
help overcome obstacles that prevent homeless people from registering. It was
helpful information in prompting me to organize a registration and
transportation drive for veterans at the VA Freedom Landing facility.
I also took the information I read in the Voting
Rights Registration Manual and discussed it with my practicum supervisor at the
VA homeless housing facility called Freedom Landing. I coordinated a program to
help register veterans to vote and also coordinated transportation on the
voting day, November 4, to enable veterans to exercise their right to vote more
easily. Approximately six veterans took advantage of the program.
I attended the Fall Veterans Honoring & Outreach
dinner for American Indian Veterans at the Urban Indian Center. There were
approximately 30 to 40 veterans and their families who were honored. They
encouraged veterans to get discuss their needs and get involved in change.
ARIELLE
SPANVILLE
Hey guys here are some articles:
This one talks about the fourth amendment and the
homeless which maybe too far out of scope, although it has some good stats
Has anyone looked into project H.O.M.E. or the
MiKinney Act or the Supreme Court ruling on Reynolds v Sims? Also since we just discussed theories of
poverty in class, maybe looking at constructive disenfranchisement as a
theory.
EMILY
HORTON AND SUE ATIVALU
I would love to go meet with the
Consumer Advisory Board. Let me know when you schedule and I'll try to
make it. Sue and I were working on putting together a list of needs
assessment type questions to ask in a group she is planning to do at
Cornerstone, related to political and community involvement. Below are my
questions, thought that might be good to include in the blog:
Did you vote in the last
presidential election?
Did you vote in the last
non-presidential election?
How many times have you
voted in the last 5 years?
Do you plan to vote in
the upcoming election?
What barriers do you
face that prevent voting?
Do you want to vote?
Do you feel that your
vote would make a difference?
Have you ever been to a
city council meeting? Or taken political or other action to make change in your
community in another way?
What community issues
affect your life? Are there any of these you would like to take action to
change? Any ideas about how you would do that?
I heard back from one of the members from Consumer
Advisory Board with the 4th Street Clinic. He is pretty passionate about
the topic and wants to schedule a time to meet. Does anyone want to join
when I set this up? Or if anyone has any questions they would like posed,
please let me know.
This is all great! Regarding the needs assessment, I especially like the following questions:
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"Do you want to vote?"
I'm wondering about the best way to collect data. Conducting a focus group is good, but I'm wondering if conducting a small survey could reach more people. Also, you may want to pare down the questions to about five. I could see it being difficult to get through all of these questions in one session. These are just some things to think about. I'm really impressed by the work you're doing around this issue. Keep up the good work.