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Case Manager Recovery Summit III in planning stages
Meeting this week, members of the planning committee for the Case Manager Recovery Summit are working on the third summit. The goal of this summit is to uplift lessons learned in Case Management.
For details contact Dr. Alice Graham: agraham@msidtf.org
|  Governor's Office of Recovery Calls Meeting to discuss state of recovery with respect to volunteers and available building resources as grants run out.
There is a meeting set for 1.30pm on Tuesday at the Knight non profit center to discuss, area wide, the state of recovery, the volunteer pool, available materials, resources, and grants, and work orders.
Several relief agencies have expressed concern over the lack of available funding and some agencies are turning away volunteers and sending the wrong message that "we are done". Far from done, the issue is the lack of funding for damaged homes in the wind zone, and unfinished homes in the flooded areas. The problem extends as far as Louisiana as there are reports of teams from New Orleans calling over to Mississippi to find work for crews on the ground in New Orleans.
The Mississippi Case Management Consortium put up a website to uplift those families who are in need of funding.
Link to Adopt A Family Website
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Notes
- If you would like to adopt a family and assist them in their rebuilding effort - please email us. You can also adopt a family by coming down and working on their home.
- Join Us On Facebook - I post on there under my name, Kathleen Johnson. We have about 1900 friends on Facebook - come join the fun of this new fad in networking !
- We matrix in volunteers staying outside this facility. Call and let us know when you need the work and we will meet you at the office and provide you with the Work Orders, tools, instructions, maps, and a team leader if needed.
- If you have questions, you are welcome to call the office at any time to check on the progress of a client you worked on the last time you were here or to ask about adopting a family.
- Our non profit is registered in Mississippi and is in compliance. Waveland Citizens Fund 501 (c) 3
- We are in receipt of the stimulus funding for the Rapid Re-Housing Grant for the homeless or near homeless. This grant funding is for a year and the program started on January 1st. Training is on the 27th for the new Case Manager for that program.
- The contract with Mississippi Case Management Consortium is still in effect and we continue to work on Case Management for those still in FEMA housing.
- We operate a homeless shelter for women and children here at this facility. Currently we have four families in transitional housing.
- Do you have an RV and need a place to "winter". We have hookups for RV's and we are always looking for long term volunteers who would like to contribute their skills to this massive rebuilding effort.
- Want to stay in touch on a daily basis: Check out the daily blog that is always full of pictures and articles on what is going on
- Link to our daily blog - pictures, stories, gossip, and scandal !
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Kehillah Jewish Highschool works on cleaning up old Pearlington Recovery site
Volunteers from Kehillah worked for three days this week cleaning up the ball field and gymn at Pearlington where the recovery center operated for going on four years. Al Showers was one of their speakers at Speakers night while Link to Article on WLOX
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Mississippi Should Smash Its Secret Government according to Sun Herald Editorial.
This get tough article, signed by the editorial staff of the Sun Herald, lashes out at the lack of open government and merciless vengeance of those unscrupulous participants in the long time practice in Mississippi of making life miserable for anyone who asks for access to public information or, for that matter, who bucks the powers that be. A huge problem in the aftermath of Katrina and it continues today. Link to Sunherald Article
|  Case Manager Injured
A case manager was injured on the job working afor Katrina Relief of Waveland. These hard working case managers work in driving rain, sleet, driven hail, snow, and ice - Mississippi is a tough place to place to work. The dogs are ferocious, the casts swift on the draw with their claws, the roads rutted and soggy in the wet season of winter.
The injured case manager, Jorge Delgado, describe the attack in vivid detail to fellow case managers here at Katrina Relief on his return from rural Pearl River County. He described how he had to run for his life from the ferocious beast who was both stout and fast on its feet, and n! ot to be outdone by the clients dogs ganging up on Jorge at this particular homestead, the ferocious beast opted to take the first bite and leave them silly old dogs in the dust. In awe of this interlopers prowess, the dogs retreated. Jorge bot "bit" by a turkey, "One of the biggest in Mississippi: Jorge reports.
This case management is hazardous work! Jorge, w are happy to report, will recover from this horrific event.
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Volunteer Housing Costs
Come see our new facility - 10,000sf
- $5.00 per day if you cook
- $17.00 a day if we cook
- 8 showers
- 8 bathrooms
- Large dining room
- Church w/seating for 150 within facility
- Rooms with 4 bunks each
- Total capacity 150
- You must provide transportation for volunteers while at facility
- Email: info@reliefvolunteers.com
Give a Day, Get a Day at Disney
If you volunteer a day at this operation, you can get a voucher for a free day at any Disney theme park. You must register prior to your arrival. Some have found the access a little convoluted so we put up some instructions on our website:
Click here for instructions on how to volunteer at Katrina Relief - read and follow carefully.
Volunteer the Can Program
If you are coming to volunteer, we are asking that you bring one can of food to donate to the Hancock Food Pantry. The aftermath and the fiscal down turn have impacted the resources of the food pantry and we are reaching out to help an organization that is assisting so many of our clients.
Volunteers Needed
We are in need of both skilled and unskilled volunteers who are flexible and willing to work at any and all assignments. We never ask our skilled volunteers to do unskilled work. We are in need of as much assistance in the office as we are field work. Without the ground work done in the office in planing, surveys, calling clients, and everyday office tasks - there can not be the field work and organized work orders. That ground work in the office is critical as is the facility maintenance and upgrades. Expect both when you come to volunteer.
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