Hi All,

Today, I am wrapping up my birthday and sixth week with Huckleberry House! Overall, I would say this week was a rather productive one as I finished calling all of our 135 current Safe Place partners and started working with the outreach team to order and distribute the proper Safe Place signage and materials to the partner sites that need them. Although I am still waiting on a few current partners to call me back, I am happy to be moving on to part two of my big project, as that will free up some time for me to work on other things, like updating the Safe Place training manual and reaching out to potential new partners.

Also, in between all the phone calls and emails, I was able to finish updating Huck House’s Case for Support! As I mentioned last week, I really enjoyed getting to use some of my research skills for this project, so I decided to take on another research task Carol had. My new research project is to find info on both the long-term individual impact and social return on investment (SROI) of youth using services like ours at Huck House versus entering the foster and/or juvenile justice systems. After an initial search, I found a lot on individual impact but not a lot of SROI analyses, so this might be an opportunity for me to crunch some numbers and see if I can approximate what an actual SROI analysis might reveal.

Until next week,
Emoni