Cvm Brochure 2009

GETTING CONNECTED

Community Voice Mail (CVM) provides free, 24 hour access to voice mail for people in transition and crisis directly linking them to jobs, housing, and hope. It is a free service for people who have a case manager.

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The CVM Summit program is part of the national network of CVM sites, empowering people living in poverty, transition and homelessness to rebuild their lives by connecting them to jobs, housing, information and hope. We do this by customizing and distributing communications technology via a network of community-based services. Users receive a personal phone number (with a 330 area code) and create their own personal greeting. They have the ability to retrieve/receive messages 24 hours a day from any phone. Only the user will be able to hear messages. The system sounds like a regular phone with voice mail capacity. Info Line, Inc. trains case managers on how to instruct clients to use CVM.

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results CVM Summit partners with many community organizations serving those in crisis and transition: Homeless – Domestic Violence – Veterans— Veterans—Unemployed – Foster Youth – Natural Disaster Victims.

If you are interested in learning more about CVM please call 330-315-1349 or email [email protected]

Info Line, Inc. 703 South Main Street # 211 Akron, OH 44311-1019 Phone: 330-315-1349

2-1-1 Fax: 330-253-1137 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.CVMSummit.net

ENROLL TODAY a program of Info Line, Inc.

QUALIFYING FOR CVM

CVM empowers people to take control of their lives. It is used by people using case management services with partnering agencies to accomplish goals in areas of: ■ Housing

HISTORY

THANK YOU

Community Voice Mail: The Spark Community Voice Mail was born in Seattle in 1991 from a seemingly simple idea that had an unpredictably potent impact.

Our program is funded by foundation grants, government, and generous community members like you.

■ Safe communications How One Person Ignited a Great Big Idea

■ Employment ■ Contacting family ■ Health care

■ Legal Services

■ Education

■ Social services

CVM is for individuals that: do not have a phone have a phone but no answering machine have a cell phone but with limited minutes are living in a potentially abusive situation Community Voice Mail is personalized, confidential and easy to use. Here’s how it works:

Working with a CVM provider, John is given an instruction card and a touch-tone phone to use.

1. He dials in 2. Records a simple greeting 3. Creates his secure password

The time: 1991 The Place: Place Seattle, WA A boilermaker entered the Seattle Worker Center looking for a job. No leads that day, but he was personable, qualified and friendly. Two weeks later, the Center got a call from an employer: “I need a good boilermaker.” Bingo! Now they had a worker AND a job. Problem: their boilermaker was qualified, but he was also homeless. The obvious way to reach him: Voice Mail. The Big Idea: Give unemployed and homeless people a telephone number that stays constant even if they can’t. The theory: they’ll find work much faster.

CVM is available in Summit County with the generous support of:

Charter One Bank Cisco Foundation City of Barberton Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation OMNOVA Solutions Foundation Summit County Welty Foundation

The Test: Our workers brought this idea to a Seattle-based voice mail company called Active Voice in 1992. The company thought their idea had merit, and donated a voice mail system. The workers distributed voice mail numbers to 145 people over 6 months, and

4. That’s it. He’s reconnected! Enrollment usually takes under 3 minutes. John walks out the door with a new phone number – and is immediately empowered.

If you are a local agency interested in learning more, becoming a partner or donating to the Community Voice Mail Summit program please contact Mike Gibbs by email [email protected] or by phone at 330-315-1349.

A whopping 70% found jobs within 2 months!

Anonymous Corporate Sponsors By placing this simple but critical tool in the hands of people in need, every other social service immediately becomes accessible.