7th CAPS - Action (Mary Ellen Wessels) by Mary Ellen Wessels

wesselsm — 2025-05-25 23:07:56 UTC

Example: The county, police departments, and pharmacies could come together in order to provide places for people to bring their unwanted medications.

wesselsm — 2025-05-25 23:07:56 UTC

Which ideas could be combined to form a solution? Which parts of government could join forces to solve the problem? Which groups could act together with government to create a solution?

wesselsm — 2025-05-25 23:07:56 UTC

What local government resources could be adapted to solve the problem? What ideas could be copied by the county government to solve this problem? What have you seen that is similar to this problem?

wesselsm — 2025-05-25 23:07:56 UTC

What does the county government have that could be used in another way that would help solve the problem? What resources could be used in a different way, and what would they be used for?

wesselsm — 2025-05-25 23:07:56 UTC

What could the county government do instead of what it’s doing now? What else could be done? What other approach could be used?

wesselsm — 2025-05-25 23:07:56 UTC

After each group has come up with several ideas - each person should vote on each idea.

wesselsm — 2025-05-25 23:14:24 UTC

Example: The idea of book or movie return boxes could be adapted by the government in order to create a network of drop-off boxes where people can take unwanted medicines.

wesselsm — 2025-05-25 23:15:41 UTC

Example: Police departments could be used for medicine drop locations in order to give people convenient places to take unwanted medicines.

wesselsm — 2025-05-25 23:16:59 UTC

Example: Instead of doing nothing about unwanted medications being flushed into the water system, the county could work with agencies and pharmacies to provide places for people to take unwanted medicines.

wesselsm — 2025-05-25 23:17:59 UTC

Give each idea a thumbs up if it meets at least 3 preferably all 4 of these criteria:

wesselsm — 2025-05-25 23:18:24 UTC

Will help the problem in a noticeable way.
Will be fairly simple to get started.
Won’t be too complicated to operate over the long term.
Won’t be too expensive to run.

2025-05-28 15:08:16 UTC

The school board and homeless shelter administrators can combine to come up with plans to raise money and provide for homeless shelters, the students can then execute these plans and learn more about the issue in the process.

wesselsm — 2025-05-28 15:12:21 UTC

Abandoned buildings could be converted into shelter space.

2025-05-28 15:13:45 UTC

Landlords and Business owners/Job managers could communicate about how much rent should be based off their paychecks.

wesselsm — 2025-05-28 15:14:15 UTC

govt work with rv dealers / campgrounds to create a space where unsaleable RVs could be used for temporary shelter.

2025-05-28 15:14:17 UTC

instead of schools being empty during the summer it could be a homeless shelter

2025-05-28 15:14:50 UTC

1.the government should make houses cheaper for low income people

2025-05-28 15:15:14 UTC

if rich people have vacation homes homeless people could use it instead of it being empty

2025-05-28 15:15:29 UTC

2.the government could give people in the slums a big tax benefit.

2025-05-28 15:16:11 UTC

instead of them being empty summer camps not in the summer they can be used as shelters

2025-05-28 15:18:57 UTC

the government should make donations to food banks