BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Becky Jorgeson-FOUnder/preSIDENT
Bull chaney- VICE PRESIDENT
Bull chaney- VICE PRESIDENT
Becky has been working with unhoused people for 16 years doing outreach on the streets . She's now working on land for our model sustainable community village for unhoused veterans and others. She has her Masters in Education with a Specialization in Counseling & Guidance and longs for the day when our village is successfully up and running.
She ran the Saturday Showers program since its inception five years ago - 5,600 showers and counting - now closed for the time beimg.
Passed on 121 RVs (and vehicles) to local homeless veterans and/or their families...
Bull chaney- VICE PRESIDENT
Bull chaney- VICE PRESIDENT
Bull chaney- VICE PRESIDENT
Bull is the founder and CEO of Gryphon Society/Gate Help, Inc. and has managed five clean and sober living houses in SLO County for decades. His heart is helping people with addictions and those living on the streets. He is a certified Community Health Outreach Worker as well as a Drug and Alcohol Counselor.
Bull has been instrumental in bringing Hope's Village to the place we are now - closer than ever to finding that viable site on which to build a model sustainable community village of tiny houses for those who have little to no income. His patience has helped us all realize that the village will absolutely come to fruition!
MARCIE GRUNOW - TREASURER
Bull chaney- VICE PRESIDENT
LAURA FLOOM MANNING - secretary
Miss Marcie was the sole proprietor of a small business for 40+ years. For decades, she's dedicated her life to helping unhoused folks in SLO with housing (inviting many to even come and live in her home or on her property over the years) and now helps feed and clothe people on the streets.
Marcie does outreach on the streets of SLO with water, food, and clothing - she is crucial to the success of our nonprofit!
She also belongs to "Sisters Helping Sisters" who help feed and clothe our women on the streets in conjunction with her church and volunteers at a local thrift store. Thank you Marcie!
LAURA FLOOM MANNING - secretary
michael arcuri, M.D. - Director
LAURA FLOOM MANNING - secretary
New to our board of directors, Laura comes to us from Pasadena where she served on the boards of the local Food Coop and Fair Trade Store.
For the past few years, she has been volunteering at Humankind, the Fair Trade store in SLO. She assisted with Saturday Showers by shopping for groceries and supplies. She has also researched grant funding possibilities and looks forward to helping more as a board member.
Laura is a software engineer - has a BS in Business Administration and an MS is Computer Science.
Welcome, Laura!
michael arcuri, M.D. - Director
michael arcuri, M.D. - Director
michael arcuri, M.D. - Director
Aside from his 47 years as a practicing psychiatrist, for 10 years (1981-1991) Michael designed, built, staffed and managed three, 10-bed care homes for people with dementia and related disorders near Prescott, Arizona. That project grew out of his interest in providing a more humane way to care for people with dementia, as opposed to large impersonal nursing homes, whose families could no longer manage them at home. His latest interest in working with homeless people is through a new Masters in Social Work in Narrative Therapy and Community Work, learning to seek what each person hopes for, values and aspires to do with their life -this led to the document entitled "OUR JOURNEYS INTO HOMELESSNESS, AND FOR SOME INTO BEING RE-HOUSED."
Consultants
Consultants
Consultants
Accountant: Kris Cindrich, CPA
Architect: Thom Brajkovich, Paragon Designs
Attorneys: California Rural Legal Association
Bookkeeper: Kristin Fischer - Outer Reefs Consulting
Clean & Sober Living: Bull Chaney - Gryphon Society/GateHelp, Inc.
Community Health Outreach: Bull Chaney
Contractor: Thom Brajkovich, Paragon Designs
Designer: Monique Grajeda - Paragon Designs
Drug & Alcohol Counselor: Bull Chaney
Financial Advisor: Laura Manning
Housing Advisor: Jerry Rioux, Retired Dir/SLO Housing Trust Fund/SL0 Co.
Insurance Co: Mackey & Mackey Insurance Company
Outreach: Tim Waag, Jan Allenspach, Marianne Bollinger, Domenica Devine
Realtor: Jeff Prostovich, Hal Sweasey
Veteran Consultant: Paul Worsham
SUPPORTERs
Consultants
Consultants
Anne Wyatt, Retired Planning Commissioner
CAPSLO
Congressman Salud Carbajal
ECHO
Jordan Cunningham, Assemblyman
Paso Cares
People's Self-Help Housing
Restorative Partners - Sister T. Harpin
SLO Co. Health Department
SLO County Social Services
SLO Housing Trust Fund - Jerry Rioux (Retired)
SLO Salvation Army
SLO County Sheriff Ian Parkinson
Supervisors Gibson, Peschong & Ortiz-Legg
Supportive Veterans Services Collaborative SLO
Transitional Food & Shelter
Transitions Mental Health Association
June 12, 2014
“As the Sheriff-Coroner of San Luis Obispo I see the need to not only help get the homeless off the street but also put in a program that helps them become self sufficient. Hope’s Village appears to accomplish both of these goals. Even though San Luis Obispo County maintains a homeless shelter it is obvious this doesn’t always accomplish our goals of getting people off the street and being self sufficient. It is not always possible to meet our goals with one program and we need different approaches to accomplish our goals. Hope’s Village will help meet those goals.”
Ian S. Parkinson, Sheriff-Coroner
San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office