3 years ago
9:07 a.m. I was just kicked out of the VSO BRIEFIN...
9:07 a.m. I was just kicked out of the VSO BRIEFING ROOM (HOMELESS SHELTER SITUATION) before the brief started. YORK,PA VSO
Situation: I walked in to receive paperwork / legal POCs TO CROSS CHECK a holistic, streamlined self-contained (no government , no civil "HELP*. CONCEPT. To ensure that everything was kosher. I had already called and emailed with no response from the office 3-4 days. Nothing terrible, I know that they are busy and that "everyone has good ideas". I had briefed a harrisburg office rep that was randomly there and everything made sense to that rep. So I was excited and fired up to share again once I had the first sanity check of the morning and proceeding into the office to ask for help and vaguely briefed a clerk and another random vet who was there to meet the harrisburg rep that I "poached for a few minutes. A york VSO Employee asked me what I was doing in the office, I explained, the Employee invited me into a conference room where (come to find out, there was an upcoming homelessness BRIEFING. I thought great this is an opportunity to share my idea with "like minded people to literally , compassionately and deliberately SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
I started crowd sourcing and the VSO-E , stopped me prior my homelessness aspect /idea and asked me to leave escorted me to security.
Summary: I walked in "out of the blue" asking for legitimate help, wanted to brief "Steve Yelton solution, prior to the actual brief (crowd sourcing ) for a sanity check to see if my solutions had merit and a GREAT starting point to the meetings. A SOLUTION FIRST, after that, everything else is paperwork.
FINAL THOUGHTS
GOOD- THEY ARE THERE TO HELP WITHIN THERE SCOPE.
BAD-THEY HAVE TO OPERATE WITHIN GOVERNMENT LIMITATIONS
UGLY-PRIVATELY FUND AND DO NOT ASK FOR HELP FROM GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. THEY CANNOT LEGITIMATELY/LEGALLY PROVIDE IT IN MY SPECIFIC CONTEXT OR SITUATION.
Lessons learned: Go private all the way, funding, legal, ect.
Thank you for you time,