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Toledo, Ohio, April 28, 2022 – Lucas Metropolitan Housing (LMH) and United Way of Greater Toledo announced their neighborhood beautification partnership called Thumbs Up at the Dorrell Manor today. Thumbs Up provides an opportunity for staff, community members, and residents to engage in beautification efforts and fellowship across various LMH properties. While Thumbs Up is not a new program for LMH, this year they are partnering with United Way of Greater Toledo to help provide volunteer and financial support.

United Way has identified three community agencies and businesses to sponsor Thumbs Up, including Owens Corning, Toledo Edison and The Tabernacle. LMH will provide meals and a t-shirt to all individuals who participate in the events. The t-shirt, designed specifically for the Thumbs Up Initiative, is also on sale as part of the Here for Good campaign run by Jupmode. For every t-shirt sold, LMH will receive 50% of the proceeds to continue providing services to its residents. The campaign runs from now through mid-June.

The Thumbs Up program is designed to bring staff and residents together to beautify communities, while fostering resident engagement and fellowship. In addition, it promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion by inviting people of different backgrounds to work together around a common goal – adding value to communities and ensuring each family has a place they can proudly call home. Through this inclusive initiative, Lucas Metropolitan Housing aims to support diversity by celebrating, recognizing, and appreciating everyone for their unique talents and providing an opportunity to get involved. 

“Thumbs Up is about people coming together to brighten our communities through an inclusive process,” said Joaquin Cintron Vega, President and CEO, Lucas Metropolitan Housing. “LMH, along with our many partners, are proud to support and partner with our residents around a common vision of success – to build better, more beautiful, and diverse communities,” he said. “Our residents, partners and staff exemplify community leadership that inspire and provide equal opportunities for all.”  

Each LMH community site is also seeking volunteers to join in this project by planting trees and flowers. After each planting session, there will be food and fellowship. Planting dates are scheduled for May 5 through June 14. Twelve LMH community sites are involved in the project and both residents and community members are encouraged to join the initiative. Once all the beautification projects have been completed, each site will be judged and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will be announced. Dorrell Manor won first place last year.

“United Way of Greater Toledo is honored to partner with LMH and corporate friends to offer the Thumbs Up Project!” said Wendy Pestrue, President and CEO, United Way of Greater Toledo. “We know there is a strong correlation between good mental health and spending time outdoors,” she said. “We are excited to celebrate this opportunity with our volunteers and show how partnership in the community can make a difference.”

To volunteer, please register by calling 419-259-9462 or contact the Service Coordinator at each site who will be taking the reservations. The LMH sites include the following communities: Birmingham, Ravine Park, TenEyck Towers, Weiler Homes, Northern Heights, Vistula Manor, McClinton Nunn, Dorrell Manor, Ashley Arms, Elmdale Court, Glendale Terrace and Flory Gardens.

Donations of flowers, trees or bushes would be gratefully accepted.

About Lucas Metropolitan Housing

Established in 1933, Lucas Metropolitan Housing (LMH) continues to provide affordable housing to adults, seniors and children in its Public Housing, Housing Choice Voucher, Mixed-Income and Market Rate housing units. LMH also provides a myriad of programs and opportunities designed to improve the total quality of life for our residents, with the ultimate goal of achieving self-sufficiency. The programs and services are the results of successful collaborations with numerous community partners.

Our current housing portfolio consists of 2,633 Public Housing units; 4,657 Housing Choice Vouchers; 322 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit units; 198 Market Rate units and 107 Homeownership Properties. There are approximately 17,500 people who reside in LMH properties. Lucas Metropolitan Housing partners with ALL people and organizations willing to exchange ideas and efforts to enhance Toledo, Lucas County and the world. https://www.lucasmha.org/

About United Way of Greater Toledo  

For over 100 years, United Way has been driving change in our community. Every day, individuals struggle with hard to ignore obstacles: Hunger. Homelessness. Addiction. Unemployment. United Way offers hope by finding solutions to surround our most critical problems. Our community wins when we LIVE UNITED®. We achieve this by forging unlikely partnerships, finding new solutions to old problems, mobilizing the best resources, and by inspiring individuals to join the fight against our most daunting social crises.

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- Aaron C. 

Below is the film Zip Code Matters by The Fair Housing Center that was referenced in this month's issue of the LMH Advocate. 

 

 

1.    Identify what processes require paper. (Identify software and reason for need for paper)

2.    Identify what processes use paper now for convenience or because we always have done it that way. (Do you use pen and paper as part of a process?)

3.    Identify critical documents your department uses? (each department should create a list of frequently used documents).

4.    Identify documents that are already being used in electronic format?

5.    Identify what documents are currently being copied. (Do we have to keep copying them or is this just a practice?)

6.    Identify you regularly keep notes in a resident, applicant, or participant’s file?

7.    Identify any software product you use, like Microsoft One Note or Elite, to keep notes or information?

8.    Identify issues with paperless processes from user perspective. (What paper do residents, vendors, or others use.)

9.    Identify what works well with paperless processes from user perspective.

10.  Identify how a paperless process could improve?

11.  Identify how any process, paperless or using paper, could be improved using technology?

12.  Identify possible name conventions for document storage within in your department and the agency?

13.  Identify what training needed to help with current paperless processes.

14.  Identify actions taken now that require paper could be replaced if technology permitted. For example, instead of signing a document, using an electronic signature program to obtain signatures.

15.  Identify how current paper files are stored, maintained and access?

16.  Identify pros and cons of current electronic document management system?

17.  Identify pros and cons of current paper document storage system?

18.  Identify costs or savings that would be increased or decreased by going paperless?

19.  Identify priority of documents that should be converted into fillable PDF?

20.  Identify any other issue that needs to be considered?

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