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10 (7)Public Comment From: Lauren Torres Sent: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 12:20 PM To: Public Comment Subject: FW: In Support of June 8 Council Meeting Agenda Item #10 Attachments: BWA Letter of Support June 8, 2021.pdf From: Chelsea Bowers <chelsea@citynet.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 202112:13 PM To: Lauren Torres <LTorres@anaheim.net>; Council <council@anaheim.net> Subject: In Support of June 8 Council Meeting Agenda Item #10 Hello, I would like to submit a letter of support for Agenda Item 410 for today's city council meeting. See the letter of support attached. Best, Chelsea Chelsea Bowers Communications Director Phone: ( Website: www.citynet.org 1 IIIA m m m mu �u June 8, 2021 RE: In Support of June 8 Council Meeting Agenda Item #10 Dear Honorable Mayor and Anaheim City Council Members, On behalf of Kingdom Causes, Inc., dba City Net, I am pleased to support Agenda Item #10 and the Better Way Anaheim Program. City Net is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending homelessness through the coordination of community efforts and activities. Since 2014, we have provided services including street outreach and engagement, case management, housing navigation, bridge housing, rapid rehousing, shelter operations, community mobilization and census coordination. We operate the Anaheim Community Care Response Team and have been proud partners of the City of Anaheim since 2014, including collaborating with Love Anaheim and the Better Way Anaheim Program in a variety of ways. Better Way Anaheim (BWA) is an innovative program ofJMh -Anaheim / Love Anaheim that offers voluntary community service projects for work experience to help end homelessness. The program began in December 2017 as a pilot and, since its inception, has served more than 1,460 homeless participants as they take their next steps to end their homelessness and improve their lives. At least once a week, up to 20 individuals perform service projects and maintenance activities at Anaheim parks and public facilities and on Anaheim streets. Regularly, BWA connects participants with representatives from City Net and also refers participants to Chrysalis. We would like to see agenda item #10 be passed and see the BWA program continue. If you have questions, feel free to contact me at brad gcitynet.org or Sincerely, Dr. Brad Fieldhouse Founder and President 0 1 W Cr,4_ ""1i I1DI'"11 is ""1vc I1 S S 19 I � lll"I � 9080'/ 1" IJP I'1';1 � ^� �I S11�'^ + d r�'^x""¢�`::"1, � "1 �,f �� ""¢ Fl^ I@III , 57,11 62 A�Ilh�,24