The Continuum of Care (CoC) is required to notify community partners and key stakeholders of the final version of the CoC Consolidated Application and CoC Priority Listing on its website.
The CoC – which is run by Opening Doors – gave Opening Doors nearly two-thirds ($456,511) of the monies approved by HUD ($701,502). The scoring committee is labeled “OD Scoring Committee” on its timeline.
- I reviewed the application and the Opening Doors website, and I cannot find the names of the CoC board members, who served on the OD Scoring Committee and who voted on the entities receiving the funds.
And Opening Doors Executive Director John Johnson wonders why we question how his organization operates.
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Real Change
The Escambia County Board of County Commissioners and the City of Pensacola will host the Real Change community partner event at the Brownsville Community Center today from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Real Change is a free event that focuses on opioid addiction education and introduces attendees to the various resources available in the community.
Attendees will receive a variety of free services, including:
Free lunch
Transportation to and from the event courtesy of ECAT (must be wearing the Real Change wristband)
Free haircuts
Community supportive services
Florida ID services
Veteran supportive services
Legal services
Healthcare
Addiction and Substance Abuse Education
Homeless Prevention Education
Suicide Prevention Education
Additionally, attendees will learn about Escambia County’s CORE program at 12:30 p.m., which is a one-of-its-kind addiction and opioid recovery program.
Residents are encouraged to attend this free, informative event to learn more about the resources Escambia County and the City of Pensacola offer to those seeking resources and educational opportunities related to fighting drug addiction.
For additional information, visit MyEscambia.com/RealChange
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Happy Hour
The winners of the drawing for the 2022 entries for a Florida quota liquor license were announced on Monday. Santa Rosa County’s license went to Christina Acker Reitano of Pompano Beach.
Why is the The scoring committee not labeled “The Continuum of Care Scoring Committee” COC-SC?
Somehow this smacks of a COC (Continuum of Cash) for OD error that should been looked at long ago for a LEM (Learning Experience Moment) that may have brought a real continuum of care we would all point to as a success with quantifiable and justifiable metrics and not something that looks actionable by authorities who might oversee authorities.
Rick, can you reach out for comment from George Santos or Menendez on this grift looking issue?
And once again, Rick, you are the only local print/radio media to do the job of getting this stuff out there. THANK YOU.
I would have wished it didn’t take those of us working to expose this situation three years to get er done. Sadly, that seems to be the timeline on this stuff. Just imagine if the people who can fix these things would bend an ear and lend a hand the first time advocates with good track records raise the issue. Or the second. Or even the twelfth.
And there were MANY people raising the alarm about this for a LONG time. That’s the problem with people avoiding Sunshine. It’s really hard to prove what they won’t write down and do in the dark, so they can get a lot of damage done if people are willing to take the easy route and look the other way.
The situation with the conflict of interest is way worse than even what you’ve relayed here, of course. Hopefully it will all get dragged into the light now sooner rather than later, so the people who know how to can clean up this mess and finally get a functional continuum up and running.
Timing on the REAP stuff starting to make sense? SMH.
Ethical advocates sounding the alarm about bad actors in the community doing their bad acts: 100.
People who accuse them every time of seeing monsters under the bed: 0