Oakland Center for Spiritual Living

ministries: Veterans - Stand Down

Coordinator: Rita Rogers, RScP

Contact: 925-680-0967

E-Mail: rmrrscp@sbcglobal.net

Coordinator:

Luis Thompson, RScP

E-Mail: louielouie94@yahoo.com

Contact: 510-395-7507

Please join us as Tent Leaders or Volunteers who are committed in bringing a consciousness of listening and compassion to Homeless Veterans Stand Down. Both of these AMAZING events will help over 600 homeless vets in the Bay Area. The men and women are brought to Local Fairgrounds for 3-4 days, given new clothes, haircuts, fed great food and provided with all kinds of donated services; including spiritual, legal, medical, dental, mental heath, recovery, housing and peer support - all with dignity and respect - thanking homeless veterans for their service to our country. 26% of those on the streets are Homeless Veterans needing to find their way Home. Join us our motto is SIT STAY HEAL BE-CAUSE for ending homelessness. Please consider Volunteering. Please contact Community Outreach with any questions.

Upcoming events/meetings...

Oakland Center for Spiritual Living (5000 Clarewood Drive)

We will have the East Bay Stand Down services provider coordination crew on site to go over services that will be available to the veterans during the event. In addition we will have a representative from the Vet center in Oakland to go over the services they provide as well as the services the VA will and will not provide to a veteran.

We will also be discussing what duties and functions a Tent Leader performs at a Stand Down event and what skills and attitudes need to be present to be able to sit with our Homeless veterans and help them out during this 3-4 day event.

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We continue planning the East Bay Stand Down which will be held: East Bay Stand Down

We continue to participate in the planning meetings for the North Bay Stand Down. : North Bay Stand Down

We also will be administratively helping to usher in will be the Monterey Stand Down which will be their first ever event . We will be helping organize and train folks for this event which will held June 19 through 21 at the Salinas Rodeo grounds: Monterey Stand Down

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This year our community we will be supporting two Stand Down events with our volunteers and a third with administrative set-up and training support. We will reach out into our greater community and touch close to 900 homeless veterans and thousands of volunteer extending our family into the greater community. This meeting will give everyone a sense of the depth of support services provides during these events.

The heart felt service is not complex it can be summed up with the following motto...

Sit Stay Heal BE Cause Our Veterans Deserve It

For those of you who have attended a Stand Down WELCOME BACK and thank you for your tremendous service. You brought order, heart, and soul to the encampments over the past 5 years.

The monthly Stand Down Tent Leader Core meeting are every 3rd Monday from 7-9 pm at Oakland Center for Spiritual Living, in the Education Bldg., second floor, Rm #5 (Teen room).

Last year they helped out at the South Bay Stand Down in Santa Cruz and the North Bay Stand Down in Dixon supporting about 600 homeless veterans. This year they will be supporting two Stand Down events with their staffing and a third with administrative set-up and training support. They should reach out and touch close to 900 homeless veterans this year.

This will be their first meeting of the year where they will show a short slide show explaining what happens at a Stand Down. This will give everyone a sense of the depth of the event.

They will be focusing on:

What occurs at an event
Duties & functions
Skills & attitudes needed to assist with our Homeless veterans

The heart felt service is not complex it can be summed up with the following motto...

Sit Stay Heal BE Cause Our Veterans Deserve It

For those of you who have attended a Stand Down WELCOME BACK and thank you for your tremendous service. You brought order, heart, and soul to the encampments over the past 5 years.

For those of you who are new WE WELCOME YOU and all your questions and inquiries.
For more information please contact Stephen Lackenbauer at (510) 750-7012 or Tom Flautt 510-435-5963.

STAND DOWN MEDIA PRESENTATIONS...

Here are some YouTube videos of past and future tent Leaders we have mentored and worked with (Rocky, Jack and Orlando). These guys started with us 4-5 years back and have helped out at many Stand Down events. They were on the streets and had many life complications that are and have been cleared up through our mentoring and their tenacity.