In consideration of the overarching question of November's meeting, "How do we reach the people who most need our services?", here is one idea for consideration. 1)Identify in broad outline those areas of the city which house relatively low-income populations. 2)Design a very simple flyer stating NBCC's address/phone, and inviting people to explore it as a hub of information for area social services. 3)Get people (perhaps students as well as the rest of us) to volunteer to paper the houses in these areas with the flyers, each person getting a manageable number of streets to work on within a time frame. Groups of people working under a coordinator (who would oversee the addresses covered, the number distributed, etc.) could distribute quite a few flyers, wouldn't you imagine? Do you all think this idea is too - expensive? mundane? unappealing to volunteers? unmanageable for whatever reason? ineffective? Has it ever been tried? Carolyn Fabricant (this is my first-ever post, so I don't know how to put my name on this, alas)
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Carolyn.. I love the thinking.. I agree that information should be given out as direct as possible and that information should be simple to read with only necessary information and the hope that information can get the public to pursue greater specifics. I wonder if there is a way of evaluating the effectiveness of this approach, especially if we were to start only in one neighborhood. Thanks for taking the risk and posting. This whatever you want to call it will only work as we all take the risk and see our ideas be flushed out by others.
See my next post for my summary of how we can enhance our outreach system.Posted 1 year ago #
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