Community Services Consortium

Serving Linn, Benton, and Lincoln counties in Oregon. Helping people. Changing lives.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Its Cold Out There

Sleeping bags are lined up ready for occupants who will spend the night after sharing a dinner in Monteith park sponsored by Helping Hands Shelter and its residents.

Terry Knoll, Director of Community Services Consortium's Emergency Services program brought her sleeping bag and joined other community members by spending the night outside Albany City hall in a symbolic gesture to recognize what homeless people go through every night. This night the temperatures were headed toward below freezing.

The night outdoors was one of several events in honor of homeless people. It followed a dinner hosted by Albany Helping Hands shelter residents to show appreciation for their community.

Helping Hands opens its doors to people who need help. Earlier a memorial service was held to honor the homeless who died in Albany during the past year due to causes related to being homeless.

Welcome to CSC's blog and e-newsletter!

These communications tools can be used to make announcements, acknowledge donors and volunteers, post videos and slideshows–whatever we want to share with our online community.

There are 3 ways to deliver info to stakeholders:

  1. The blog itself, which can be linked to our current website
  2. Email news blasts (blog articles sent via email as eNewsletters)
  3. RSS Feed (subscribers read in Google Reader or other feed reader, can also send posts to Facebook and Twitter)
We're excited about these communication tools and look forward to both your input and feedback for continuing improvement and positive information-sharing.

If you have agency/program information you'd like posted on this blog, please send full text and/or photos and videos, ideas, or suggestions to Janet Hessel and she will take the next steps.

Enjoy!