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56:14 It's just so much more. We're seeing more unhoused people in this community, not just down by the river. That's where we would see people occasionally go.Play from 56:14
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56:14 It's just so much more. We're seeing more unhoused people in this community, not just down by the river. That's where we would see people occasionally go.Play from 56:14
7:25 If I don't get to talk to you again, we've got a big event coming up in November for the New England Center for Homeless Veterans. But also too, please make sure that you're available for Army Navy, things like that.Play from 7:25
1:18:13 It being an open campus, we, you know, we primarily deal with a lot of unhoused as well as EDP is mostly staff persons every day. And when you think about community policing, you know, it is a philosophy essentially, of taking that reactive policing and making it proactive, making you become a member of the community,…Play from 1:18:13
Southampton School District, MA ·
7:33 So we had students who were, say, doubled up in a that lived in Southampton, became homeless, were doubled up in another community, had have the right to stay in Southampton, but then have in the place that they were doubled up in um had had sort of made roots there and then they decided to now go to that place.Play from 7:33
13:22 There's concern about the homeless in the sense that they're often camped around some of the housing for elderly people and people spoke about feeling afraid.Play from 13:22
45:50 What we haven't front of us now would allow a homeless shelter as it's defined, which is any kind of shelter, but you can imagine, including what you described as a drop in shelter in the neighborhood residents either by right, always with a neighborhood meeting and conversation, but, you know,…Play from 45:50
1:15:21 Key problem with veterans of people who are homeless is the fact that when they come out of So, uh, certifications to help them get jobs in the industry.Play from 1:15:21
2:51:48 She helped, um, homeless kids. and their families and I can say this now because she's retired, but sometimes she would take in kids when they didn't have anywhere else to go including their families.Play from 2:51:48
Barnstable School District, MA ·
30:35 I believe it's at 7:00. Thank you. Uh, and I will. If it's not at 7:00, then I will, uh, correct that going forward in September. But this is, uh, Barnstable High School on September 10th, and it's a town wide meeting relative to the petition, uh, in the town that garnered enough signatures, uh, looking at the proposed, uh, homeless shelter on West Main Street.Play from 30:35
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