Meeting Notes / Carrie and Deborah from FACETS 9/29/09

This is Elaine...Here’s what happened in the meeting with Carrie Idol cidol@facetscares.org and Deborah Heller dheller@facetscares.org from FACETS yesterday:

Group Project:
• Carrie’s idea for our group project is to come up with ideas for an educational booth for the Help the homeless “mini walk” (a local, smaller walk than the “big” one in DC) .
• Our main purpose would be to provide an interesting and interactive way to educate the public about homelessness in our area.
• It’s a family event and there will be a wide age range at the event. Carrie suggested we cater to the younger folks
• FACETS will provide the facts, figures, and statistics that we’ll need for content.
• We need to be respectful of FACETS clients when presenting information.
Watch out for stereotyping
• The event itself is 4 hours long with people arriving at different times…we need to remember this when planning

We came up with a tentative date for the next meeting - Next Wednesday at 1:30pm. FACETS is close to GMU. Let the group know if that time works for you...We're going to come up with a plan in the next meeting so please think of ideas (you can post them to the blog) for something fun and interactive at the booth.

She also said we can help out at the booth this Saturday at the Vienna Oktoberfest. This would be a good way to get more hours and also learn more about the homelessness problem. Try to make it if you can, not sure what the hours are though…Please let me know if you have any questions!
~Elaine

Elaine's Information for Presentation

Elaine, that's awesome information that will definitely help us on our presentation, thanks! For anyone who hasn't taken a look at them yet, they were attached in an email titled "NCLC375 - Homelessness Research". Did anyone go to the "What’s Happening in the Homelessness Community" event on Thursday, September 24?

I hope this blog helps us keep on track and better communicate with each other! I think it would be a good idea to meet up soon like Whitney suggested. Tuesday sounds like a good day to get together, but I have a three hour class starting at 10:30. I could definitely meet up anytime on Monday before 4:30 or Tuesday after 4:30 though. I know it's going to be tough finding a time that works best for everyone, so if we can't find a day, maybe we should just pick a time where most people can go and fill in the details to everyone else later...