Lloyd Schmeidler, Project Manager for the Department of Community Development for the City of Durham in North Carolina, recently engaged the Southern Collaborative in discussion around a potential regional effort. He noticed a strong interest in Durham for adopting the Vulnerability Assessment Tool (VAT), so he organized a conference call to gauge interest in organizing a training for the Southeast region.
Some people feel the VAT is a more objective and complete assessment than the 100K Homes Campaigns Vulnerability Index Assessment (VI), which focuses mostly on medical vulnerability.
There were more than 10 participants on the call from the following cities:
- Greensboro, Chapel Hill, Greenville, and Durham, NC
- Savannah, GA
Two representatives from Seattle’s DESC, the organization that created the VAT, presented a brief overview of the development of the tool and their training methods. The rest of the call was spent with questions about the use of the tool itself and about how we would potentially run a training in the Southeast.
“There are a lot of best practices to reduce and end homelessness being implemented throughout the Southeast and the nation. The Southern Collaborative enables us to easily share information with one another, to take advantage of learning opportunities in the region, and to encourage one another in the difficult work that we are doing.”
Currently Schmeidler is waiting for approval on his proposal to sponsor a VAT training.
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