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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes May 25, 2021 Page 5 so I'm not sure how, can you send me her contact information? I would like to reach out to her and kind of put our brains together and figure out something. Iyo: Yeah, I don't know how involved she is with veterans who are homeless, but I believe she's been the homeless coordinator for at least two years now. But I can send you her contact information. Hiduchick-Nakayama: Hey Thank you, I appreciate it. Chair Doolittle: Wasn't there some kind of catch 22 and Hope Services and accepting homeless people? I seem to recall that we discussed this before, that either there was a catch 22 in drug use or some other thing that kind of excluded people from being served? I thought we had a conversation about that once. Lewis: There usually is, but the other thing is that they gave up the veteran facility that was at Hope Services, they used to have a home/house for veterans, and they no longer have that. They serve near the hospital in the facility there and I think when we talk about the mental illness you've got the drug, alcohol, mental illness, trauma. We know that 70% of the adult population has had some sort of traumatic event and then now with COVID, of course that's probably much higher and then you add in the military factor. This is a big discussion, but it just seems that we need to move it to someplace where we can actually put resources to bear that are integrated to what's available cause there's multiple programs across the country that are successful in ways, but the idea is, what works here? Chair Doolittle: We had a HIVM meeting down at the Elks Club a little while back and I noticed that there was some construction going on at that old hotel next to the Elks Club and I went over and talked to the people over there and there is some kind of in-house treatment facility going to be built out there. A private institute that's going to open up some kind of health services thing. But they're going to be bringing in people from around the country not necessarily a local based service facility but something that's more on a national scope. Anyone know anything about that? Heard anything about it? It's that old hotel and restaurant thing next to the Elks Club. Lewis: I just want to bring up a point of order, but we have George Sheridan, if you see Sheri, that's George Sheridan so we have our six people. Chair Doolittle: Hey, George are you there? Lewis: He's on mute. Chair Doolittle: Hey George, can you unmute yourself and confirm you're here? (pause) He's still muted. Lewis: Let me call him again, hold on.