Week of February 28, 2011

From Cinda:

Monday I was in all alone…  This place can be too quiet!  I cleared my e-mail, coordinated some with my community group-mates, since we're working on unequal access to shelter beds among transgender homeless.  I also input the demographics cards, and the visitor sign-in sheets from February so I can scan in the February pages on Wednesday.  I also added the data for the phone logs.  Then, Geno arrived!  Cool, it's just too quiet here alone!  I learned how to forward and un-forward the phone as well – I'm so proud!

Tuesday, back to the GIC!  More data entry today, as well as several phone calls, which was nice.  I created blurbs to hopefully recruit more volunteers, and clients for clinical hours.  Did some supervision and made some plans for the spring quarter, which is only a month away. 

Wednesday I scanned in the visitor sign-in sheets for February, and all of the phone logs through the end of February.

Week of February 21, 2011

From Cinda:

Monday, in to the GIC, hanging with one of the volunteers while Karen worked in the back on the Gold Rush.  We had visitors drop in and had some nice chats.  We're also trying to get a new version of the clinical workshops printed, but the computer and the printer aren't talking to each other!  I also added demographics cards to the spreadsheet.  After Karen and volunteer left it was quiet, so I did some work for school while I waited to see who might drop in.

Tuesday, I was back at the GIC doing more little projects.  It was nice to be able to get a bunch of these small things done, and it broughht our data entry up to date.

Friday and Saturday I was at the Gold Rush, in the clinical track, which was amazing.  We heard from several experts in the field, asked questions, and had a really enjoyable time learning a lot of stuff.  This was really an amazing event and I can't wait to do it again next year!

Week of February 14, 2011

From Cinda:

Monday it's back to the usual routine.  There are now lots of small things that need to get done, so I plunged in to see how many we could accomplish today!  Straightened up the front desk drawers, started on the opening/closing procedures for the volunteers, caught up the blog and added Anne's entries, added Anne and I to the GIC webpage under interns, sent e-mail to the volunteers to sign up for March, worked on info on appointments, and talked with Karen about classes, student night and Gold Rush.  Tried to add a link to a blog on the web resources and discovered that I don't know how to do that.  So I e-mailed it to Beth and asked for instruction on how to accomplish that.  Back Monday night for open hours, but another facilitator was here.

Tuesday, back to the GIC.  I e-mailed myself the new demographics card and tried to see if I can fix it using Acrobat Pro, which I couldn't, but it was easy to do in Word, with a little tweaking.  But now we have demographic cards we can ask folks to fill out so we can collect anonymous data for grants!  Anne dropped in with her dog (Layla, who is too cute!) and we talked about me picking up some of the clinical stuff over the summer, which would be great.  She added her description to the "current interns," too.  I'd like to get some more clinical practice before next year.  Geno and I held down the fort after Karen had to leave.

Wednesday, I scanned in the visitor sign-in sheets so we'll have a record.

Week of February 7, 2011

From Cinda:

                 Monday I'm off to the state capitol for a "day at the legislature" for our social policy class.  I'm hoping to hear when the civil union's bill will be introduced.

                Tuesday, in for a team meeting and supervision.  It looks like I will be doing some clinical work after all!

                Wednesday was a productive board meeting.

                Thursday was our second Student Night and we had seven students from DU come.  They are all doing their community project on the transgender community.  Kate and Geno were here to talk and answer questions.  It was a fun evening!

Week of January 31, 2011

From Cinda:

                Monday we were closed due to the weather.  I sent Karen the pamphlet to look over, sent e-mails to the volunteers, and contacted students concerning student night.  I also spent some time looking into transgender homelessness.

                Tuesday we were closed again due to the weather.  More research into the issue of homelessness and the transgender community.

                Sunday, exchanging e-mails with Karen, and e-mailing the DU students on Student Night.

Week of January 24, 2011

From Cinda:

                Monday I was home sick, but Tuesday it was back to the Gender Center.  Karen and I talked about the volunteer training, then she met with one of the presenters for the Gold Rush clinical track.  I printed fliers to take to DU on Thursday, and talked with a open hours drop in.  Miranda came by and fixed some computer problems we were having - thank you!  And I worked on my IFEP update and talked about that with Karen.  Kate also dropped in and she and I talked about the grant.

                Wednesday I sent out the Gold Rush clinical track fliers via e-mail, printed out some parts of the grant handbook, and read that over.

                Thursday I was in for my meeting with my field liaison, then off to DU to drop off fliers at the departments that didn't get back to me about the e-mailed flier.  Then it was back in the evening for a team meeting and then volunteer training.

Week of January 17, 2011

From Cinda:

                  Monday was just Karen and I.  Nice supervision time, then I sent out an e-mail to everyone how's expressed an interest in volunteering (seven folks!) and will send follow-up e-mails a couple of times before the "big day" – January 27^th.  This also went to the Board, so we hope most of them will also attend.  We also did a little cleaning up of the Gender Center, and some cleaning up on the web site (broken link, outdated material) and I'm looking for a nice tri-fold template for a new pamphlet we're putting together.  We talked about the Gold Rush.  The Gill Grant is off, too!

                Tuesday Karen and I went over what needs to be covered at the volunteer training.  I took notes and will do a final polish on that this weekend.  I'm working on the pamphlet for our services, too.  Now that is off to Karen to look over.  Miranda came in as well!

                Thursday, we met at Restaurant King for the team meeting.  Looks like I will be trying to get the Denver Foundation Grant done by February 1^st.