[Dialogue] Katrina refugees - project models needed

[Janice & Abe Ulangca]

What kind of pilot project could we envision?  (with replicating possibilities)
Can we share models and scenarios via e-mail?

We need to have a feasible plan, and we must have the history of ICA accomplishments written up in a convincing fashion.  David Dunn, do you have this?   Then we can go after funding, entre, staffing.

Who do we know that might give us entre?  Can we find someone of influence who knows something about our work?  Could anyone reach Dr. Udofsky?  Ken Gilbert, would he be considered a colleague of yours?  (paragraph from associated press copied below).

"Dr. Stuart C. Udofsky, chairman of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said about 30 psychiatrists from around Houston are assisting with the mental-health needs of those staying inside the Astrodome.  'The Astrodome was designed to have maybe 20,000 people for six hours at the most for something upon which they are all focused,' Udofsky said.  'To be there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for an indeterminate period of time, that experiment has never been run -- and we are trying to do that right now.' "

Janice Ulangca

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sunny Walker 
  To: 'Colleague Dialogue' 
  Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 11:50 PM
  Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Katrina refugees & What if?


  Janice -- BRILLIANT! The rest of you -- Where could we start?
  Sunny

  -----Original Message-----
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  [mailto:Dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Janice & Abe Ulangca
  Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 3:24 PM
  To: Colleague Dialogue; Order Ecumenical Community
  Subject: [Dialogue] Katrina refugees & What if?

  Dear ICA colleagues and friends,

  ABOUT KATRINA REFUGEES

  We hear many times that these refugees have nothing.  Yes, many have lost
  their homes, any jobs they had, clothes, things that are precious, things
  that made life easier, a familiar community, even family or friends.  Huge
  losses.  

  But some of us understand what few in government or helping agencies may
  recognize:  There is so much that all these refugees HAVE    snipped



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