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I love Clemmie and have had a good working relationship with her, but I think she may be a trifle mad at me.  We were in a rather heated meeting concerning the closing of Tent City and I made a comment to the group about the number of folks left at the camp.  As I stated that four of t

According to the Salemtown e-mail list, the head of Youth Services expressed some initial uncertainty about whether the case of a teenager shot last week had been assigned to her division or to the precinct.  The day before yesterday Captain Marlene Pardue wrote an association member who contacted her about the case that she could not locate it by the address.

Nashville has a mental health court and it works fairly well.  I'm not certain that anyone has tracked overall savings to the city as a result of moving people through this court versus traditional court, but anytime we can provide alternatives to jail we almost always save money.  Tha

I attended a major policy meeting today that addressed Park Center's implementation of the Vulnerability Index as our primary method of performing outreach.  A number of heavy hitters were in attendance and Becky Kanis, who flew in from New York to discuss the efficacy of the effort, wowed them with the amazing success rates of this approach.

You'd better believe it can happen close to home, maybe even to you.  At a time when we need them more than ever, why on earth would our own city be actively working to close them down instead of regulating and working to improve them?To that end, we've made significant progress at Nashville's o

UPDATE: Much to report on the events today.

First, the commission meeting and some video will accompany a lengthy report tomorrow but for tonight, let me just say that it looks like we may have gotten the camp's closure at least postponed until November 1st, when Room in the Inn begins.

As most of you know, a number of us worked extremely hard to stop the closure of Tent City over the past few weeks. We succeeded in buying some time to correct some of the problems and were well underway with that effort when disaster struck this weekend.

I've spent considerable sums getting folks who have a place to go and/or a job prospect waiting for them elsewhere on a bus to another city.  Working in conjunction with Helen Pace over at Traveler's Aid, together we've sent quite a few folks off to what we hope are better futures elsewhere.