The Coronavirus continues to impact our world and our work. We look forward to when we can work with our clients face-to-face, but for now we work through and learn from the challenges. Thanks to your ongoing support, we will survive, but we will be different, forever.
Here's some of what we've learned over the last several months:
1. Our relationship to technology has changed. We are effectively using remote platforms to communicate as staff and to connect with clients. We will continue to use technology to our advantage.
2. Our relationship to paper and space has changed. We are meeting with clients, running groups, doing counseling, and raising money, including planning virtual fundraisers, electronically.
3. Our relationship to the city, state and other organizations is even better. We have ongoing calls with the Department of Public Health and meetings with organizations represented by Jane Doe. These strengthened relationships will serve us well in the future.
4. The pandemic isn't changing our ability to develop new programming. Along with maintaining current programs, we are working on two new programs. One will focus on permanent supported housing funding, and the other, loss counseling.
At Stone House, COVID-19 has changed the way we work and has increased the urgent need for racial justice and equality. We are having difficult, meaningful conversations to determine not only how to best serve our clients, but how to best play our part in dismantling systemic racism and making our community, and world, more just.
What has NOT changed, despite challenges of a global pandemic, is our commitment to thousands of domestic violence survivors as they take charge of their healing, their lives and their futures.
