Hi All,
The weeks have truly flown by this summer, as it is somehow already the end of my seventh week with Huckleberry House, which means I sadly only have four weeks left with this lovely organization. As you can probably tell, over the past few weeks I’ve been very diligent about making progress on Safe Place — and I still am, little by little.

But, to give this week a bit of a change of pace, I decided to primarily focus on making some headway with the research project Carol gave me last week. As a result, I spent a lot of this week doing what you do when you research 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 (i.e., reading, annotating, and some math). On Thursday, I met with Carol to go over some of my initial findings, after which we decided it would be best for me to make a short report overviewing what I had found and how it might be helpful for Huck House if they decide to work with a consulting firm to develop an SROI report in the future.

Lastly, this week was Huck House’s All Staff Meeting! The main focus of this meeting was to have all the staff meet Jennifer, the new CEO, and vice versa. So, we all got to eat lunch together, and then afterwards Jennifer answered questions staff had about herself and the future of the organization as Huck House plans for the next few years. Although I won’t be with the organization as this unfolds, it was interesting to learn about Jennifer’s approach to strategic planning (i.e., prioritizing all staff having both involvement and input) and meet some of the staff I haven’t yet had the chance to.

All in all, a good work week!

Till next week,
Emoni