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Community Social Service Summit

Why Is This Idea Important?: This proposal is critically important in coordinating the provision of social services and healthcare at a community level. It's imperative that community services be inventoried in order to monitor to avoid abuse and redundancy. Government social services are well-intentioned but unsustainable, do not address community-specific needs, and are too convoluted.

Oregon has developed a unique approach to Social Services and Health Care for Seniors, Disabled, and those in poverty. It is a fundamental belief that communities are in a much better position to determine and provide these services - Portland social service needs are not the same as Molalla social service needs. The Community-Based approach includes the recent Community Congress held in Clackamas County to advise the County Board of Commissioners regarding community priorities and concerns. It also includes the forthcoming (May 28, 2009) Community Social Service Summit in Molalla, Oregon to inventory and coordinate local social services by volunteer, community service, 501(c)3, faith-based, and other organizations. And finally, it includes Oregon Project Independence (O.P.I.). This video captures the essence of how this approach may substantially reduce government costs - perhaps even applied nationally:

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  1. go2thesun said:

    hey i've got the same walker was especially handy when i was homeless.

    do your TRANSITIONAL shelters take in physically disabled?

    in CA they don't

    or its give up your med and other needs for - pay to play.

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