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Regional Housing Council approves plan to include people with lived experience and outside subject-matter experts
Summary
The Thurston County Regional Housing Council voted to start monthly engagement with a member of a Lived Experience Steering Committee plus alternate-month briefings from subject-matter experts, with a stipend for the LESC participant covered by an existing facilitator contract.
Thurston County’s Regional Housing Council approved a proposal to begin in January a monthly engagement process that will include a member of the Lived Experience Steering Committee (LESC) and periodic presentations by subject-matter experts, and to pay a stipend to the LESC participant, council members said at the meeting.
The change is intended to give council members regular, structured input from people with direct experience of homelessness and from providers and experts so the council can better understand ongoing impacts on the local system. Tom Webster, a county staff member presenting the proposal, said the LESC member would attend every meeting but would have a standing agenda item only every other month, and that subject-matter-expert (SME) presentations would be 20–30 minutes and limited to information, not lobbying. "This is really intended…
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