HelpCopsHelpUs: Tony with Tampa's Clean City Division Jumps on Board Homes of Second Cha...

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Tony with Tampa's Clean City Division Jumps on Board Homes of Second Cha...

Tony is a supervisor with Tampa's Clean City Division. When I first met Tony he thanked the Help Cops Help Us Team for finally cleaning up the Linebaugh Ave home. "It's been an eyesore for more than three years," he said. "We would drive by it almost every day and have to pick up trash accumulated in the front yard."

Tony's remarks are testament that vacant and abandoned homes contribute to blight in the neighborhood. Homes of Second Chances not only restores the lives of the men that are enlisted to fix them up, but it also revitalizes the neighborhood and empowers the community all at the same time!

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Deputy Steven Donaldson
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office
Homeless Initiative
District III Office: (813) 247-033
Email: sdonalds@hcso.tamp.fl.us
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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.