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Living on The Edge: Putting a Face on Human Needs
Goodwill Industries Employment and Training Center, 1601 Patton Avenue
October 17, 2001
"Leadership means influencing the community to face its
problems"
-Ronald Heifetz
8:30 Coffee and muffins
8:45 Overview and Tour of Goodwill Industries: A Helping Hand
Dan Bradshaw, executive director, Goodwill Industries
Linda Briggs, director of employment and training services, Goodwill Industries
9:45 Break
10:00 Addressing Medical and Family Crises
Barbara McLean, director of Pediatric Outpatient Departments,
Ruth and Billy Graham Children's Health Center at Memorial
Mission Hospital
Linda Poss, outreach director, Ruth and Billy Graham Children's
Health Center
10:45 More Than a Shelter -- A Home
Terry Bellamy, Mountain Housing Opportunities
11:30 Group Processing
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Leveling the Playing Field
Kristen Lambertin and Jerelee Basist, Literacy Council
1:30 Promoting Women, Families and Understanding Others
Holly Jones, executive director, YWCA
2:15 Break
2:30 Community Needs and Community Involvement
Pam Turner, chair, United Way Board of Directors
David Bailey (LA 16), president, United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County
3:15 Group Processing
Suggested Activities:
- Support the United Way annual campaign
- Donate clothes or household items to Goodwill Industries
- Volunteer at Literacy Council
- Volunteer at Mountain housing Opportunities
- Visit and contribute to YWCA
- Contribute to Ruth and Billy Graham Children's Center
Special thanks: to Jack Ingersoll (LAS XII), Bill Satterfield (LAS XII),
Bob Liebenow (LAS XIV) and Gordon Becker (LAS XIV)
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