User:TheLastWordSword

Welcome! This is not my first attempt at a Wikia that addresses a community of the real world as an audience, but I'm hoping that the new choice of subject matter will make a difference. I've started a couple similar Wikias, just to see if anyone would contribute to it without my leading them by the hand, but that seems to be a bit much to ask. So, here, I hope to enlist as many parties as possible, from all walks of life, to see if that doesn't work any better. Let's see what happens!

Similar Websites
There are a variety of websites which address homelessness in Rochester, so I thought I'd start creating a list of them here, as they may be helpful in sorting things out.

"Rochester NY network homeless"
"Rochester NY network homeless"

"Rochester NY homeless"
"Rochester NY homeless"

Why Another Website?
I'd like this Wikia to be different, in that we could address other community issues as well, which are still related. While directly addressing the needs of the homeless and those at risk of being homeless is very important and urgent, there seems to be an increasing focus on the need to address the causes of poverty and homelessness. In addition, the unnecessary social stigmas that make recovering one's place in society all the more difficult, is increasingly being acknowledged. These points can be addressed by our community as a whole in a more public way here, and hopefully constructive input from a variety of sources may help resolve problems that are more difficult to address by a more limited number or set of parties.

I'd also like to provide the bigger picture of just how many organizations there are, how each proceeds in addressing these problems, and just how anyone in the community can help make a difference. Such a larger overview also helps in reducing duplication of effort (where the additional efforts are simply competitive rather than collaborative) and point out areas that receive little attention, but make a critical part of the larger effort.

Lists of Organizations
Since the staff of the Information Center of the Central Library of Rochester And Monroe County have created a list of organizations and services, with some rather close and diplomatic work with the listed organizations, I thought that those lists might be useful here as a primary source of information on each organization. Each will have its own page here on the Wiki, with the possibility of later edits as each organization might need. This would also make it easier for others to update and compile the lists as circumstances might require. So here it is:

User:TheLastWordSword/Library Documents

I've just started a little bit of formatting to make it easier, but the rest should come fairly quickly. Thank you for your help and patience!

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My Personal Wikia Userpage

My Wikipedia Userpage

My Meta-Wiki Userpage

My Runescape Wikia Userpage

My Rochester, NY Police Department Wiki Userpage

My Government Transparency Wiki Userpage

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