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RHC weighs adding lived-experience and provider voices to regular meetings
Summary
Thurston County staff proposed two new engagement approaches to give people with lived experience and shelter providers more direct input to Regional Housing Council meetings: a rotating LESC attendee and short, focused provider briefings.
Thurston County staff proposed two steps to increase the Regional Housing Council's engagement with people who have lived experience of homelessness and with shelter and housing providers.
Tom Webster outlined the first idea: invite a rotating member of the Lived Experience Steering Committee (LESC) to attend RHC meetings as a nonvoting participant, with a regular standing agenda item for brief updates. "The idea is to have a standing agenda item on RHC meetings and invite a member of the LESC to attend these meetings, to…
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