Excerpt from Southwest News Media, 3/9/23:
In addition to providing resources, Tran is confident that the data collected around the community’s needs and to what extent certain organizations can meet those needs will be helpful for “going upstream” with more preventative action — without stopping what he calls “the downstream effort.”
“All of these organizations, they need our effort, our volunteers, our funds, because they need to be able to provide their service, their resources to people in need,” Tran said. “Let’s find the right amount of time, the right amount of resources, energy and focus on going upstream to figure out why there are people in certain areas in need of certain services. Because if we can, then we won’t be in a situation where we are just always reactive.”
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