Comments on: Homelessness in Northern Nevada - A Big Economic Development Issue http://blog.nsbdc.org/2008/01/01/homelessness-in-northern-nevada-a-big-economic-development-issue/ A Weblog by the Nevada Small Business Development Center Fri, 16 May 2008 03:12:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Tanya Bulock http://blog.nsbdc.org/2008/01/01/homelessness-in-northern-nevada-a-big-economic-development-issue/#comment-18941 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:26:54 +0000 http://blog.nsbdc.org/2008/01/01/homelessness-in-northern-nevada-a-big-economic-development-issue/#comment-18941 Thank you for your study about homelessness, tackling this issue has continued to be supported by the community at large, and stopping the cycle in younger generations might provide the most direct way to reduce future homelessness issues. Providing better plans in our lower income education systems to help students in this cycle know how to get out. Mentor programs like Hug High School are beneficial to future generation. Some children just don't have the role models they need consistantly guiding them through all the different system. Role models are vital, like in a twelve step program you have a sponcer. Washoe County has continued to try to make a difference and has made tremendous improvements over the past ten years in providing for the increasing levels of poverty. How do establish rent control, health care reform, and human dignity to those that hit bottom? Mentors,,role models and success stories seem to sometimes help with inspiration and motivation. Better mental health services, implementing nutrition, sleep, and proper medication- halfway houses for transitions mental health. More youth directed activites to break the cycle might be our biggest hope for twenty years down the road. Though the effort to improve the life needs of the homeless is a well blessed and appreciated endeavor that Reno should be proud of. I also believe that using energy efficency, and redirecting the saving towards the homelessness might provide a cost effect way to pay for some health, and home care issues. Since we know how to save money in using reducing the use of energy, the redirection should be towards helping those who use the less amount of energy. Just my thoughts. FYI- At time I watch were the homeless are sleeping, and once outside a car dealership in the cold I thought about the man sleeping in the grass. Here are all these nice warm cars, no one using them. Here is a man sleeping outside the dealership. Sometimes it doesn't make sense where we invest our money. Thanks for listening. Thank you for your study about homelessness, tackling this issue has continued to be supported by the community at large, and stopping the cycle in younger generations might provide the most direct way to reduce future homelessness issues. Providing better plans in our lower income education systems to help students in this cycle know how to get out. Mentor programs like Hug High School are beneficial to future generation. Some children just don’t have the role models they need consistantly guiding them through all the different system. Role models are vital, like in a twelve step program you have a sponcer. Washoe County has continued to try to make a difference and has made tremendous improvements over the past ten years in providing for the increasing levels of poverty. How do establish rent control, health care reform, and human dignity to those that hit bottom? Mentors,,role models and success stories seem to sometimes help with inspiration and motivation. Better mental health services, implementing nutrition, sleep, and proper medication- halfway houses for transitions mental health.

More youth directed activites to break the cycle might be our biggest hope for twenty years down the road. Though the effort to improve the life needs of the homeless is a well blessed and appreciated endeavor that Reno should be proud of.

I also believe that using energy efficency, and redirecting the saving towards the homelessness might provide a cost effect way to pay for some health, and home care issues. Since we know how to save money in using reducing the use of energy, the redirection should be towards helping those who use the less amount of energy. Just my thoughts.

FYI- At time I watch were the homeless are sleeping, and once outside a car dealership in the cold I thought about the man sleeping in the grass. Here are all these nice warm cars, no one using them. Here is a man sleeping outside the dealership. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense where we invest our money. Thanks for listening.

]]> by: Brian J. Kelsey http://blog.nsbdc.org/2008/01/01/homelessness-in-northern-nevada-a-big-economic-development-issue/#comment-18115 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:44:09 +0000 http://blog.nsbdc.org/2008/01/01/homelessness-in-northern-nevada-a-big-economic-development-issue/#comment-18115 Congratulations on completing this study. It sounds like an important contribution to our understanding of root causes of homelessness and the relationship to economic development. I'll look forward to hearing more about how we can apply the lessons you've learned here in Austin, especially in the area of leveraging participation from local businesses. Congratulations on completing this study. It sounds like an important contribution to our understanding of root causes of homelessness and the relationship to economic development. I’ll look forward to hearing more about how we can apply the lessons you’ve learned here in Austin, especially in the area of leveraging participation from local businesses.

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