HelpCopsHelpUs: Request For Assistance

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Request For Assistance

As you may already know, our next residential home for the homeless is moving forward with assistance from the Home Depot Foundation. I'm scheduled to meet with the staff of the Town N' Country Home Depot store on Friday the 11th to coordinate the rehab-logistics among other things.

Unfortunately, someone needed the exterior air conditioning unit more than we did and they left their cinder block behind as a calling card when they committed their dastardly deed.

In the meantime, I need to find a private sector donor (most likely an air conditioning company) that might be able to help us out with the installation of a replacement unit. If you have any resources or think you can hit-up an A/C company you do business with we would be much appreciated.

Typically, the day of renovation is a good-sized media event and I always do my best to promote those private-sector companies and individuals that help out.

You can send me an email at StevenLeeDonaldson@ gmail.com, or call my office number (813)247-0330, if you should come up with anything.

Thanks

Deputy Steven Donaldson
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office
Homeless Initiative
District III Office: (813) 247-0330
Email: sdonalds@hcso.tamp.fl.us
Facebook.com/HelpCopsHelpUs
HelpCopsHelpUs.org

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Welcome to Help Cops Help Us: A Homeless Initiative Blog

The Help Cops Help Us homeless initiative is a new problem-solving model centered on the root causes of homelessness. Its philosophy rests on the fundamental human principle that people, all people, will succumb to the human trait of inevitable behavior until intrigued or compelled to act differently.

The uniformed law enforcement officer is the epicenter of the street engagement model that uses a "coupling" technique, motivating each homeless candidate that becomes accountable to a singular and persistent mortal entity -- a street cop.

The coupling effect is a two-pronged approach where candidates who resist assistance and rehabilitation, by default will receive the law enforcement prong when behavior exhibits a callous disregard with laws and a communities desire in maintaining a certain quality of life.

The homeless candidate receives both direct and indirect assistance after a street assessment evaluates their individual needs and problems. We then solve their most basic problems so they may become self-sufficient.

We mend fences, rebuild character, solve their problems, then push them into the water where they are forced to learn how to swim again.

When they are off the streets and into housing we continue to monitor and follow-up until we are certain they have become self sufficient for long term sustainability.