Street outreach meeting 12/06/23

Can have a cart with 3 different vendors

Not sold by Amazon, but a platform that provides the service: structure

Highway creations to get fast paced connection to the different organizations

Tool to streamline, and help people plug in more easily

Peter is a coordinator, he is already doing it, he is very passionate about this, and he can give us feedback to learn what it would be to better the format.

Parameter mapping

Haight and Ashbury: suggested that Geo has a contact person listed for each neighborhood

An essential part for volunteers to help in

HMIS- Homeless Management Information System-

Very archaic, and its not being built for the future

HUD is not doing it well- we will build it better

Counselors, therapists etc will come out and talk to them, plug them into programs

All the professions come together as we are building the network

Drawing the people form the street towards hope and a future that is better for them

3-6 months and go out once a week

Ellis App that Yan is developing will be the user interface for us, and the outreach coordinators/workers to use

Vision is to make it super user friendly so that someone can get to the nearest shelter bed

Develop for good

We are working on the front end

The back end? Ceramic, weave chain, database management?

What are the bridges going to look like? App to access information from Geo Browser

Think about inner operability to access information

Ai 16-20 week process where they work with nonprofits and social enterprises

Building relationships with engineers around the world

Ellis is the centerpiece, the holder of the Daos

Daos plug into it

Beta testing in the Bay Area, but ultimately the system can be used all over the world

Weave Chain- an app that is already HIPPA Compliant

Start something in places like: The Mission, The Haight

Where? How Often?

Resource base: YWAM, Salvation Army- refer more people in

The Daos can be many things

This group’s goal is to map out a universal system for ANYONE ANYWHERE to plan a street outreach walk, using this Dao tool to plan a walk, have funds from the Dao system and plan a walk

Utilizing YWAM to start because it’s convenient and can be our case study for the process we are mapping out

Eventually we can use smart contracts to be our tool

All the resources are there to use: resources, payment for time, people ready for volunteering, etc

Another format we can use to practice and better, more intimately understand the systems in place to operate these walks

Roles: Street Outreach C, Captain, worker, housing navigator

Activities: train the volunteers, map our the route, create a list of specified goals

For example: share flyers with recovery programs that have openings

Each person’s work will be validated

We need to intimately understand the tasks needed for each role for it to be compensated

Smart contract: Map it out what people get paid for

Robot Heart community for example: no matter how many days you volunteered, everyone would get offered the same reward

Encourage participation

Work is what we can pay people for

We should think systems

Host weekly meetups

Create an active discord group

Offering up more tasks for people to plug in

Map out roles and activities

Organizations

Defining detailed job description for the roles

10k GRT can be retroactive

Example: pay for a referral

Visual mapping of tasks- Abbey is willing to help with this

Ask Abbey to start with street outreach

Research, analyze, deconstruct, reconstruct

Start there and then the learnings will transfer to the rest

Create a space on Geo Outlining the structure of the Dao

Each Dao has 1 in person, 1 zoom per month

11am-12pm is the new time slot that we will start rotating the Daos into

Exercises so that we can intimately understand the process, we want people, individuals and groups to plug in so we can better understand this

Not individual start ups, but departments of the same initiative

How do we streamline and map that out?

Unique identifier will be needed in time

Prerequisite, the most important piece is that it is replicable

Churches can be the hubs

A physical location will eventually become antiquated

Platform is neutral so it is more accessible

Then distill everything down to the simplest form

Hubs and start locations can change

YWAM is an early adopter

Decentralized distribution model using a centralized Ellis App

Mental health centers are not always compatible with someone who needs a recovery location

If they can’t take care of themselves, will they go back into city custody?

Is conservatorship helpful?

Congregate housing is not for everyone.

Calling 911 in SF gives you the option to connect with a mental health response, HOT Team vs a Police response

BART now has a mental health- de-escalation specialist

The Hot team can triage and then offer them congregate housing, single rooms or 3 person per room, for example.

We need to connect with access points

Have coordinators reach out to the different locations and build relationships with them

1st order of business is to create a functional system

After that is done successfully

Part 2 or 3, de-escalation training

She suggests connecting with the school systems and paying teachers or other staff more for any time they spend assisting families with housings

Hot coco, ponchos, cookies, Lavender and eucalyptus, socks

Kent: For the February outreach, If you are new come to the orientation at 3pm, if not new come at 3:30pm

Debrief: captains talk in small groups

Maybe 2 groups sharing and then bring the info back for the group share

What stood out to you? The Captains will share the highlights

Post to the discord encouraging people to come to the event early if they would like to set up their digital wallet

Some staff: having income outside of their regular work can jeopardize their visas

Kent is getting the Target giftcards- buy 25

If outreach worker declines payment, they don’t take a card

Digital currency or giftcards are the two option

Educate on safely storing wallets, before giving digital currency

Create a POAP, proof of attendance

Scan a QR code when you get there- have an attendance list

At the end validate the services by having them scan again

Kent as a coordinator: shares the resources he bought, and the group has an approval process to validate the process

We vote to get him reimbursed

⅔ need to approve with their wallet so the funds get released