AHAN 2006 in Review

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AHAN 2006 in Review

• Accomplishments

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Meetings

• Four bi-monthly meetings held for AHAN
• -January 31, 2006
• -March 21, 2006
• -May 31, 2006
• -September 14, 2006
• National Housing Strategy Day
• -November 22, 2006

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National Housing Strategy Day

• Forum called Help to Stay Housed, Strategies to
  Prevent Homelessness
• Student from Loyalist assisted Information
  Networking Task Force to complete this task.

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Forums

• Practical Solutions Workshop
• Home Ownership Forum
• Walk a Mile in their Shoes
• Municipal Elections Info Forum
• There was excellent media coverage for all three
  of these forums

5
Funding

• Received funding from Services Canada under SCPI
  to hire to full time staff
• -Vanessa Rollins
• -Joan Gauthier

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Printing Materials and Marketing

• New logo for AHAN developed
• New pamphlet developed

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Printing Materials and Marketing

• Wallet Cards distributed (over 1000 cards)
• New AHAN website developed
• http//www.hastingshousing.com/ahan/
• Public Awareness - Cable TV (Vanessa)
• Structure Document Completed

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Task Forces

• Task Forces met monthly, bi-monthly and/or
  quarterly
• Creation of work plans
• Merge between two task forces (Information
  Sharing and Networking Task Forces)

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Task Forces

• Creation of Landlord Tenant Kits
• Preparation of new AHAN member packages
• Inclusion of community beyond Belleville,
  including Bancroft, and Quinte West

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• "You cannot sit on the road to success for if you
  do, you will get run over.
• Anonymous