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Leaving Tarija was a wierd feeling, like we were leaving home again. We could definitely live there one day we think, a cracking place with great people. So, on we went to La Paz, a very different kettle of fish. Always been a city I wanted to visit, for the breathtaking (literally! Ha! How many people have written THAT I wonder?) views. Yeah, it was hard work on those steep streets at nearly 4km above sea level, and that breathtaking scenery (literally! Ha!) keeps all the smog from the antiquated buses trapped in the city making catching your breath that little harder. We spent the first two nights in a hostel with it´s own brewery attached (a free beer each night! Muuuuuuy bien!) and amazing rooftop views, but at 16quid a night for the pair it was a little budget stretching so we checked into another for 6quid for the pair. More like it. Except we discovered the strange Paceñan predeliction for washing floors with gasoline. Yep. Petrol. So headaches abounded, we looked at others but they did the same bloody thing. Had to feel for the owners kid who was crawling around on this carcinogenic mess. All in, 9 days were spent in La Paz and I´ve got to say there have been, and will be, better cities. The snow capped peak of Illimani towering over the city is brea... nice, but dirty great cities have never been our thing.
Entonces, Uyuni. Originally we considered just doing a one day tour - how long, exactly, can one spend looking at salt - but we opted for 3 days and glad we did. The Salar is covered with as many superlatives as it is salt - indeed, we stayed in a superlative hotel - but is not the highlight. The next two days saw us heading up to 5,000m and driving through some of the most awesome sights this beautiful planet has to offer. Lakes coloured with different minerals, unbroken brilliant blue skies and flamingoes on their winter holidays made for some brea... wonderful vistas. One of those moments when you´re extremely grateful the universe is appreciating itself through you. Proper cold though (-25C on the 2nd night) and buffeted by strong chill winds, it does, however, wake you up after a night drinking vodka. And wine. Our guide, with a name befitting of his legendary status - Macedonio Flores(!) - was cracking, and extremely patient (that´s another story). On the way back from the tour we had a tire blow out, but Señor Flores handled it so well it was barely noticeable. Back in Uyuni, after 3 cold, showerless days there is nowt better than a blistering hot shower, and Fine Beer.
Onto Tupiza, by first class train (budget! yeah! We´re going to be going home 4 years sooner than planned, not sure why) which crawled along at 20mph and got us there at 4am where we were met by a 20 strong pack of wild dogs who kindly escorted us to our hostel. Bien perros. We took a horse, jeep, bike trip while there which was great for brea.. really, really nice scenery, although Caroline´s horse was up the duff which was a bit unfair on the poor thing - it was blisteringly hot. The mountains were right colourful, and some rocks were shaped like penises. Childish humor abounded.
Tupiza to Potosi, the world´s highest city. Some friends had warned us, and we we really scared by this, that ´cos of the altitude... wait, it´s nerve racking.. beer got really fizzy and LOTS OF IT FIZZED OUT OF THE GLASS!! However, they were European and as we all know Europeans have got no idea about alcoholism so it became clear they were merely admitting to their incompetence with the sacred liquid. Caroline and her friend went to the silver mines (I wasn´t particularly interested in claustrophobia and dynamite) which they said were great. Eye-opening etc. 10 year olds work in there, and over 8MILLION have died since the 1600´s. Enjoy your necklace.
Then the bus from Potosi to Santa Cruz. Except we got off at Sucre in genuine fear. Lots of buses have been taken with no problem, but this driver was the worst we´ve encountered. So, I happily broke a vow - and the bank - to get a flight the rest of the way. Which was actually quite fun in our tiny plane, and gave me pause to think about the last tune I´d like to hear before I died.
A trip into the jungle was the idea of Santa Cruz, which is Bolivia´s largest city and vastly superior to La Paz. The laid back attitude undoubtedly comes from the stifling heat, but hey Britain! We´re having a summer. I can tell you, it´s quite nice. Forgoing the idea of a tour we went to a small town and thought about doing it ourselves. We found it wasn´t possible and got taken by some people - I won´t say who cos they could lose their jobs, especially if they get inundated by the 7 people that read this blog - for a fraction of a tour price and we had a great time. Trekking into the steamy tropics and taking dips under cool waterfalls, being swamped by butterflies and getting paranoid about being eaten by pumas was worth every paltry penny. We´ve also spent a few days in a town called Samaipata and visted our first Incan ruins, which were ok but only just whet the appetite for Macch Piccu in a few weeks. In a couple of hours we make our way back to La Paz and then onto Lake Titikaka before leaving for Peru. It´s a shame we only get 3 months in Bolivia. It´s been a truly wonderful part of the trip, with some great people, and we´ll be sad to leave. One more thing, we love dogs and Bolivia treats her strays wonderfully. Dogs with coloured paper collars have been vaccinated for rabies, which is amazing for a shit poor country. It would be much cheaper to kill them, and for this Bolivia should be applauded (though I personally think castration preferable, it would help eliminate the problem).
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The National Housing Conference recently released an update to their online tool that compares wages with the cost of housing in cities across the nation. Their interactive Paycheck to Paycheck database reveals what many across Washington already know: an affordable home continues to be an impossibility for many with full-time jobs.
All Washington residents should be able to afford a home and still have enough left over their basic necessities, like healthcare, food, and transportation costs. By the numbers, this means that one should only pay no more than 30% of their income for housing costs. However, as Paycheck to Paycheck shows, this is clearly not possible for many workers across the state. Take for instance the occupation of a home health aide. As our nation's population ages and baby boomers live longer, home health care is one of America's fastest growing professional fields.
When you examine the Paycheck to Paycheck numbers for home health aides, you find that out of the seven major Washington cities included in the database, home health aides can only afford a rental home in one of those cities (Kennewick, see left). Additionally, a home health aide could not afford to buy a home in any of these cities. In fact, if a household consisted of two home care aides (double the average salary), even then this family couldn't afford to buy home in all seven of the areas studied (see left).
Both renting a home and owning a home has become an impossibility for more than home health aides. When you poke around the Paycheck to Paycheck tool, you'll find that a surprisingly diverse array of occupations are also priced out of the market across the state.
This is why the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance works to ensure the state legislature passes sound policy and legislation to increase affordable homes. The state has a widening affordable housing gap. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, for every 100 extremely low-income families in King County, earning less than $23,400 a year for a family of three, only 30 affordable apartments are available. Clearly, not only do wages need to keep with rents, but we also need more homes affordable to the entire spectrum of wages in Washington.
Stay tuned, as we'll be soon releasing our legislative priorities focused on protecting renters, ensuring a disability doesn't result in homelessness, and utilizing the capital budget to help increase opportunities for safe, healthy, affordable homes.
The Washington Low Income Housing Alliance believes that everyone in Washington should have the opportunity to live in a safe, healthy, affordable home in a thriving community. Gun violence hurts communities and undermines that vision. For that reason, the Housing Alliance endorses Initiative 594.
Reducing gun violence in our state will help build healthier, safer, more thriving communities. Please vote yes on I-594 when you vote your General Election ballot.
The initiative makes sure anyone buying a gun in Washington State passes the same background check, no matter where they buy the gun and no matter whom they buy it from. It requires the same background check for private purchases, including those at gun shows, as are currently required at licensed gun dealerships.
For more information, visit: wagunresponsibility.org.
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Irene Basloe Saraf, Guest Blogger
On September 20, a group of Washington Low Income Housing Alliance and Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund staff and board members joined with many other social justice activists and advocates for an all-day workshop titled, "Class & Social Change: Harnessing the Strengths of Diverse Class Cultures." Real Change, Housing Alliance, Social Justice Fund NW, and Class Action came together to sponsor the workshop.
From the very start, the facilitators – Anita Garcia Morales, Alan Preston, and Betsy Leondar-Wright – created a safe space so that we could all open up about our own class identities. And that was a good thing because I had expected a somewhat abstract discussion of the effects of class on social justice work. But Anita, Alan and Betsy created a workshop encouraging us to think about class in a very personal way. And they approach class this way because, as they note, "[a]cknowledging class privilege is an important step towards becoming an anti-classist ally."
We spent the morning in class caucuses, established by our class status at around age 12. The facilitators believe that our class experience at that formative time in our life strongly influences how we operate today. We divided into class groups based on a variety of measures: our parents' educational attainment, our parents' economic and career status, the type of home we lived in, our parents' influence in the community, among others. We were then asked to discuss, list, and then present to the whole group what our particular class background brings to our social justice work.
All of the groups were insightful in noting how a particular class background could both help and hinder social justice work. There were lots of differences across the classes. But I was really intrigued by the similarities. For instance, most of the classes were willing to take risks – those who had been poor or working class because they were accustomed to having nothing to lose, and those who had been middle, upper-middle, and owning class because they had a cushion if the risk didn't work out.
Later in the day, we worked on creating messages on various social justice issues that would resonate and persuade across classes. The issues included housing, the environment, and school-to-prison pipeline to name a few. We learned that poor and working-class activists tend to use colorful sayings, metaphors, and analogies and first or second person stories, while college-educated activists tend to use abstract terms to explain and analyze a situation. Both of these descriptive traits are strengths; the most persuasive messages utilize elements of both, picking the most accessible of all the abstract terms associated with an issue and then creating a short and vivid message around that term.
We also explored how class can impact internal conflicts in groups. Each class leans toward a particular pitfall in conflicts. And we talked about how to navigate around those pitfalls and instead raise disagreements in ways that are both humane and assertive and resolve conflicts with collaboration rather than antagonism.
I found it enlightening – if sometimes a little uncomfortable – to spend a day poking at my own class privilege. And it was valuable to learn about the impact of class and classism on social justice work. Given that one overt class indicator is housing type, advocacy around housing and homelessness will invariably intersect with issues of class. The workshop showed me the value of addressing those issues head on, rather than avoiding or deflecting them.
By the end of the day, I appreciated the truth in the words of the late founding co-director of Class Action, Felice Yeskel: "Gaining greater awareness about how class affects what we do and how we do it is an ongoing process. The more contact we have with folks from across the class spectrum, the greater the opportunities for gaining awareness."
To learn more about Class Action's unique analysis, check out classism.org.
Photos. (Right): The pink sign indicates your class background when you were 12-years of age. The yellow sign indicates your class status today that is connected to your class background. (Bottom): This pink sign indicates another category of class background.
Alouise Urness, Community & Member Organizer
Since I last wrote about the Emerging Advocates Program, a lot has happened.
These are some of what advocates have been up to since completing the program. It's exciting to get calls, emails, and visits from the 38 individuals who have completed the program so far. I get to hear about and support their endeavors and, I'm excited to see the Housing Alliance's connections growing through the grassroots work of our enthusiastic program participants!
The advocates aren't the only ones who've been busy! This summer, Housing Alliance staff ran the Emerging Advocates workshop series not once, but three times due to increased demand. We worked with one group of Emerging Advocates who met on Monday evenings, and another group on Tuesday afternoons. They heard from Housing Alliance and Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund staff on a broad range of issues including the importance of political work and using social media for advocacy. We brought in community experts as well. Nancy Amidei of the Civic Engagement Project taught advocacy skills. Western Regional Advocacy Project's Paul Boden shared a history-based framework for understanding homelessness. And several former EAP participants returned to share what they had learned. A state representative even stopped by one of the sessions to meet participants.
In early September, these two groups joined together for a day trip to Olympia, where our own Ben Miksch (formerly a legislative staffer) led them through the journey of a bill becoming law as they moved through the spaces where the process occurs. Next came a mock hearing in a senate hearing room where several advocates practiced testifying, others tried out the lawmakers' roles, and all got a deeper look into the legislative process. To wrap up the day, we pulled chairs into a circle in that same hearing room for a wide-ranging conversation with the Housing Alliance's lobbyist and two legislators' aides. Tara Jo Heineke, of Senator Karen Keiser's office (33rd District-Kent), shared an incredibly moving story about a letter she wrote long ago as a young advocate and labor organizer, which was instrumental to passing a bill. Senator Adam Kline's (37th District-Seattle) aide Bryn Houghton tirelessly answered questions. Lobbyist Nick Federici helped us see that laughter goes well with advocacy.
Just one week later, Housing Alliance trainers headed for Yakima. Ellie Lambert of the Homeless Network of Yakima County, herself a former EAP participant, had arranged for us to offer a third installment of the Emerging Advocates series. This was to be a weekend-intensive version of the workshops. Nine emerging advocates convened in a church basement for the same 12 hours of workshops that other participants experienced, but all in the course of 3 days! We had the added treat of learning from local advocacy leader Mateo Arteaga and enjoying lunch with a candidate for state senate.
These emerging advocates put their skills into practice on the final morning, some choosing to hone their public speaking by presenting to the congregation upstairs, others leading Housing Alliance staff on a tour of places and services important in surviving homelessness in Yakima. The sessions finished with a round table conversation among the emerging advocates and local housing development leaders. The advocates talked about their barriers to accessing affordable housing, and the nonprofit leaders shared some of their challenges in building it. There appeared to be a lot of common ground.
Much has happened, and there is so much more to do. I'm looking forward to working with these advocates, as we approach the next legislative session and beyond.
Photos: (Top): The combined Monday & Tuesday Emerging Advocates groups in Olympia. (Right): Rep. Brady Walkinshaw (43rd District-Seattle) meets the Monday group. (Left): Monday group participants talk advocacy. (Below): Yakima emerging advocates on their lunch break with Housing Alliance staff, Mateo Arteaga, and Gabriel Munoz.
Edited 11/11/14.
In recent budget proposals released by state agencies to the Governor's Office, three programs that help thousands of disabled individuals across the state are slated to receive substantial cuts.
The state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) released a budget document proposing to eliminate the Aged, Blind & Disabled (ABD) program. ABD, an outgrowth of the former "Disability Lifeline" program, helps extremely low-income adults with permanent mental or physical disabilities with $197 per month while they are applying to the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This application process can take many years. This is why DSHS also provides SSI Facilitation services to assist disabled individuals through the lengthy process of applying for federal SSI benefits. DSHS has proposed that both ABD and SSI Facilitation services be eliminated, effective July 1, 2015.
DSHS also recommends that once ABD is eliminated, people at-risk of or experiencing homelessness who would have otherwise qualified for ABD, be allowed to apply for the Housing & Essential Needs (HEN) program. Administered by the Department of Commerce, HEN ensures that people with temporary mental or physical disabilities can access stable housing when facing extreme economic hardship. Recipients are also able to access essential basic needs, including transportation assistanceand health/hygiene items.
This will expand the HEN-eligible population from 7,303 to 30,702 per month.
However, Commerce has submitted a department proposal to cut the HEN program by $7.4 million (out of the $59 million allocation), which is a 13.1% cut. According to Commerce's calculations, they could only serve a fraction of the ABD recipients who would be newly eligible for HEN. This would leave thousands of disabled adults, who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness, without housing assistance. Commerce itself bleakly noted the impact of HEN cuts on existing HEN recipients (not including the added ABD caseload) on page 298 of the Department of Commerce 2015-17 Operating Budget: "If this proposal is adopted approximately 580 additional people will be living unsheltered. Some of these 580 unserved people may become hospitalized and some may die of exposure."
According to Washington Low Income Housing Alliance Executive Director Rachael Myers, these cuts come at a terrible time, "These services literally mean the difference between living in a home or on the street. We've been making progress on reducing the number of people living without shelter, but this year that number increased. Instead of reducing programs that keep people off the streets, we should be expanding those services. If our current tax structure is inadequate to meet basic needs of the people in our state, we should fix that by closing corporate tax loopholes and increasing revenue, not by making more people homeless."
Reducing these services comes just after the U.S. Census released the American Community Survey showing that Washington was one of only three states that saw an increase of people living in poverty from 2012 to 2013. That's a jump to 970,000 vulnerable residents who could be impacted by eliminating these programs. January 2014's Point in Time count of people experiencing homelessness found 18,839 people without a stable, permanent home.
This is why 81 organizations in Washington State have quickly joined the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance in signing onto a letter urging Governor Jay Inslee and the Washington State Legislature to protect these three crucial lifeline programs. According to the letter, DSHS and Commerce "have proposed cuts that would, by their own figures, eliminate housing assistance each month for 580 extremely low‐income, incapacitated people with disabilities, and eliminate the only source of income for 23,449 others on July 1, 2015." The undersigned believe more needs to be done to address this problem, but the proposed cuts promise to set our state backwards.
You can read the full contents of the letter to the Governor opposing the cuts here.
Photo (right): Shelby Powell credits the ABD program for helping her stay in her home during the year-long process of applying for SSI. Shelby is now receiving SSI benefits and continues to be stably housed.
Edited 10:14pm on September 22.Edited 2:42pm on September 23.
Honah Thompson, Social Justice Intern
I'm Honah (pronounced "HAH-nah," both A-sounds are soft) the fresh meat of the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance. I was born and raised in Santa Rosa, California (in Sonoma County's wine country). I recently graduated from Chapman University in Southern California with a B.A. in sociology and religious studies and an emphasis in social work. I come from a busy summer of internships and volunteer work relating to HIV/AIDs, child abuse, and hospice care at various agencies in Orange County. The time I spent with each agency affirmed my desire to continue with social justice work before entering graduate school for a master's degree in social work.
While I would like to say it was a natural urge to embrace the rain and public transportation that brings me to Seattle and the Housing Alliance, it is actually the United Church of Christ's Young Adult Service Communities program. For a year, I will live in community with some pretty stellar folks and engage in social justice issues such as homelessness, living wages, and so many more as the year goes on. As someone interested in equity and fair access to basic human needs, I feel everything I learn this year will be extremely fulfilling.
My first experience with the Housing Alliance was in Yakima at the Emerging Advocates Program. I had an amazing time learning oodles of great information about how advocacy works in the world of housing and homelessness. Hearing the stories of the participants as well as the presentations of our guest speakers was greatly inspirational and put me in the right mindset to begin this internship. Some of what I learned was eye-opening and some shocking. But what I have taken away from the many new statistics and stories shared at Emerging Advocates is that homelessness is a grossly misunderstood social problem. Another takeaway is that there is a huge need for advocacy if we are bridge the state's affordable housing crisis and end homelessness. If you wish to learn more about what I am talking about, I would suggest looking into the document Without Housing: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness and Policy Failures produced by Housing Alliance partner agency Western Regional Advocacy Project.
As the Housing Alliance's dedicated intern I will be involved in supporting the many projects, plans, and proceedings that we are whipping up and working on in the office and around the state. I will help in the planning for the Conference on Ending Homelessness as well as Housing and Homelessness Advocacy Day. So look for me in Tacoma and Olympia next year. (I can't wait to go to Olympia.) Word on the street is that I will also be helping with state and federal advocacy, which I am very excited about after spending so much time on direct services wondering how the nitty-gritty of advocacy and legislation go down.
I am all kinds of excited to be here and can't wait to see what this year has in store for me. Let the advocacy and action begin!
Top: Honah posing with the Yakima Emerging Advocates Program participants.
Bottom: Honah participating in the social media and advocacy component of the Emerging Advocates Program in Yakima.
Kate Baber, Homelessness Policy and Advocacy Specialist
Over the past several weeks, we've had a number of major updates to share with our members. Last week, we shared our ideas for new strategies to end chronic homelessness and improve health. This week, we are excited to announce the date of next year's Conference on Ending Homelessness.
Please save the date: May 13 and 14, 2015 for the 25th Annual Conference on Ending Homelessness to be held at the Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center in Tacoma, Washington.
The conference will bring over 600 homelessness advocates and direct service providers together from across Washington for our state's largest conversation on ending homelessness. Next year's conference program will continue to build momentum towards ending homelessness by providing skill-building opportunities, research and policy updates, advocacy and communication trainings, networking opportunities to exchange ideas and best practices, and continuing education credits.
Do you have a creative and innovative workshop idea? The conference planning committee is now accepting workshop proposals, and we invite you to submit a proposal form by October 31, 2014. Please note the earlier than usual due date for proposals. Proposal forms and instructions can be downloaded from our conference website: wliha.org/COEH.
Conference registration and scholarship applications will open in February 2015. You can visit our conference website for updates over the coming months. In the meantime, please save the date!
The expansion of Medicaid in Washington under the federal Affordable Care Act has extended health care coverage access to over 250,000 people living on low incomes. Despite this success, people experiencing chronic homelessness frequently face significant barriers to using Medicaid. Thus, they are often unable to regularly access health care or reach improved health outcomes.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines an individual as chronically homeless if:
1) He or she has a disabling condition and
2a) has been homeless for longer than one year or
2b) more than four times in the last three years.
Washington's 2014 annual point in time count identified 2,673 chronically homeless persons living outside. Unfortunately, people who face chronic homelessness experience high mortality rates, high rates of chronic physical health conditions, and high rates of behavioral health disabilities. The lack of housing, social supports, and untreated physical and behavioral health disabilities prevents this population from accessing regular care, leads to high utilization of public emergency services, and hinders people's recovery.
Chronic homelessness is a serious problem in our state. However, we know we can solve it by bringing a housing intervention known as permanent supportive housing to scale. Permanent supportive housing is a specific affordable housing and service delivery model. HUD, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness recognize it as an evidence-based best practice. Under this model, affordable housing is paired with intensive tenancy support services, housing case management, and care coordination. Permanent supportive housing is designed to serve people who are experiencing or are at risk of chronic homelessness and who have a severe and persistent mental health disorder, a chemical dependency disability, or chronic and complex physical health conditions. Academic institutions and other organizations have rigorously evaluated this model at both the national and local levels. They've repeatedly shown that permanent supportive housing improves health and housing outcomes, creates efficiencies in care coordination, reduces emergency and crisis service utilization, and helps people with complex needs recover from illness and live with stability, autonomy, and dignity.
Although permanent supportive housing exists across Washington, there is not enough funding currently available to bring this model fully to scale. One of the primary gaps impeding this intervention's expansion is the lack of resources for the services portion provided in permanent supportive housing, services critical to the model's success. Thus, the Housing Alliance has been exploring strategies to secure additional funds for these services, including the creation of a new Medicaid benefit. This benefit could cover the medically necessary services within permanent supportive housing. Medicaid is well positioned to cover a subset of these services. We believe this is the case because the population needing permanent supportive housing is unlikely to be able to access physical and behavioral health care consistently. This lack of access can change once they are receiving intensive supportive services that help them, 1) avoid chronic homelessness, 2) obtain and retain housing and reach long-term stability, and 3) navigate systems of care.
In recent months, we have collaborated with CSH and the Washington State Chronic Homeless Policy Academy to write a research paper exploring the concept of creating a new Medicaid benefit. We are very excited to publish the final paper and further explore this exciting idea with Housing Alliance members and stakeholders across the state. The paper provides background information regarding permanent supportive housing, chronic homelessness, and Medicaid. It identifies the barriers within Medicaid that prevent permanent supportive housing services from being currently covered, and it outlines a framework for developing a new Medicaid benefit in Washington. A new benefit would create a stable source of funding for a subset of the services provided in permanent supportive housing and could be paired with other resources to increase the availability of homes across Washington.
This fall, we plan on continuing to partner with stakeholders and lawmakers in developing this concept into a proposal that can be introduced during the 2015 legislative session. Stay tuned for updates on this exciting work, and in the meantime, be sure to check out our paper!
Creating a Medicaid Supportive Housing Services Benefit White Paper
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First image: Pictured left to right: Governor's Office Senior Policy Advisor Robert Crittenden, Rep. June Robinson (38th LD), Rep. Eileen Cody (34th LD) and Cottage Grove Commons resident John Harper. Cottage Grove Commons is a supportive housing development in the West Seattle neighborhood.
Second image: Cottage Grove Commons, supportive housing for 66 formerly homeless men and women living with serious mental/addictive illnesses or other disabling conditions.
Third image: 1811 Eastlake, supportive housing for 75 formally homeless men and women with chronic alcohol addiction.
When it comes to finding an affordable home, challenges continue for Washington's lowest income renters. This is according to a recently released joint report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) and the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance (Housing Alliance).
The report is titled, Housing Spotlight: The Affordable Rental Housing Gap Persists. It reveals an acute and persistent shortage of rental homes across the nation that are both affordable and available to the lowest income Americans. The numbers specific to Washington State are particularly glaring:
Two full-time workers with a child earning Washington State's minimum wage make about $39,000 per year. This number is just under 50% of the median income for a Seattle-Bellevue area family of three. In this income range, only 55 affordable and available units exist for every 100 households.
Unsurprisingly, according to the report, the less you earn, the less affordable homes available to you.
For instance in Spokane, where the area median income (AMI) is approximately $63,000, wait staff make about $23,000 a year or less (roughly 30% of AMI). For every 100 of these workers, the state only has 28 affordable and available homes.
The average fast food worker in Washington State earns roughly $12,000 a year. This is about 15% of the state's median income (approximately $74,000). According to our findings, Washington residents earning this much will likely spend a great deal of time looking for a home because only 16 affordable housing units are available for every 100 similar households. Renters with incomes at or below 15% also tend to be elderly or disabled individuals living on fixed incomes, such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI). In this income group, 90% of these renters spent more than half of their income on housing costs.
These harsh numbers not only contribute to Washington's overall homelessness rate, but also makes the Evergreen State tied for 8th worst in terms of how many affordable and available homes we have for every 100 extremely low-income households. Statewide, there's a need for 161,243 more rental homes to close the affordable housing gap for extremely low-income renters.
It's always been difficult for lower income households to find affordable homes, and today it's harder than ever. Renting has become an increasingly common choice among higher income households since the housing crisis. Nationally, the number of renters with incomes greater than 120% of area median income increased by 1.2 million between 2009 and 2012, transforming the rental market by putting upward pressure on rents.
Despite the dreary numbers, the Housing Alliance believes this is a problem that can be solved. To this end, we're currently in the process of finalizing our 2015 State Legislative Priorities. We'll be releasing our agenda as 2014 draws to a close.
At the federal level, NLIHC calls for funding of the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF). The NHTF is a program signed into law in 2008 to distribute dedicated sources of revenue to states to preserve and expand the supply of rental housing targeted to extremely low-income households.
The report is available here:1. Report Text2. Report Appendices
More information about the NHTF is available at their website, nlihc.org/issues/nhtf.
Margie Quinn, Facing Homelessness Operations Manager
A year ago, I moved from Nashville, Tennessee to Seattle, Washington for a year of service through the United Church of Christ's Young Adult Service Communities Program. I moved into the third floor of a church with the other interns and began working at the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance a week later.
First, you should meet "Margie-From-A-Year-Ago." That Margie had never voted. She couldn't name one legislator from her state. She couldn't define "advocacy" or even what "public policy" entailed. She had never even been to her state's capitol. She had never attended a lobby day or met with an elected official to discuss an issue she cared deeply about. She had never canvassed or phone-banked for a political candidate. That Margie had never planned a workshop for a statewide conference or planned a panel for an advocacy day. She had never seriously contemplated the issue of widespread homelessness in our country.
You get the picture. I was fresh from undergrad where I had learned to theorize and analyze the injustices in our communities. But, I had never advocated for these issues myself. The Housing Alliance showed me how to act out and speak up for issues that ignite me. Thanks to Housing Alliance staff and friends, I transformed from a critical and immobile thinker of social justice to a bona fide active housing advocate!
I registered to vote. Then I actually voted…three times this year! I'm going to vote more! I ran around Olympia with Michele, Ben, and Kate B. as they talked to legislators about why affordable housing, tenants rights, and homeless services matter. I helped facilitate sessions of the first-ever Emerging Advocates Program with Andrea and Alouise. From this, I learned how vital it is to build connections with folks affected by these issues in order to understand the depth of complexities that encompass them.
Joaquin taught me how to use social media to advocate and how to connect anti-oppression work with ending homelessness. Brianna brought the fire, showing me that voter registration and voter turnout make a tangible difference. I co-planned an interfaith panel for Housing and Homelessness Advocacy Day. Then, I co-facilitated a storytelling workshop at the Conference on Ending Homelessness.
I could go on and on about the wonderful, dedicated staff at the Housing Alliance. I could go on and on about how much I learned from each of them and how deeply grateful I am to them for revealing to me just how much advocacy can change my life.
But, I digress. Here is the bottom line: honestly, I am afraid of the person I would have been if I hadn't worked at the Housing Alliance this year. I have now transitioned into the role of Operations Manager at Facing Homelessness, another organization working toward ending homelessness in Washington State. As I sit at my new desk, writing this blog post, I can't help but recall my first conversation with a Housing Alliance staffer who asked me what "advocacy" meant to me. I sputtered some nonsense about "ongoing work" and "taking action," trying to sound more knowledgeable than I was. Now, I know what advocacy is. More importantly, I know how to do it. I know how to organize a meeting with legislators in my district and how to call folks and mobilize them around important issues.
Housing Alliance, you've made an advocate out of me. One down, a few more to go. I have no doubt that you will transform the next intern and many more to come.
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- Year:
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- Length:
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- Engine/Fuel Type:
- Single / diesel
- Located In:
- Rock Hall, MD
- Hull Material:
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- Last Listed Price:
- Sold
Classic Design Married to Modern Technology
Make this girl yours in time for spring sailing!
If you have been watching her, now is the time to move!
Over the years, yachting has evolved into wanting to have your home and all of it's amenities floating in the slip. The cookie cutter boats line the docks, with one huge stern after the other. That's just fine for most boaters but, for those of us who have a soft spot for the classics, it's not what we want.
Along the lines of other classic yachts, the Block Island 40 stands out as one of the most beautiful and well found boats you could ever call your own. When Eric Woods, owner of Migrator Yachts, decided to build the Block Island 40, he made a few design improvements. The deckhouse is a little longer than the original, the centerboard and rudder are more efficient; and modern materials like AIREX coring in the hull are used. The rig is simple and the decks uncluttered.
Manitou is a lovely, well-mannered yacht. Her design is poetry on the water and her owners have been the most excellent care takers. She has been used in the Chesapeake Bay by her current owners but, is fully capable of open ocean work. Her centerboard design makes her perfect for the shallower waters of the Bay and in open water, the board allows sparkling upwind performance.
If you experience the draw of classic elegance, and appreciate an expertly maintained boat, Manitou is for you.
- Versatile yawl rig
- Centerboard with only 4'2" draft, board up, and 8'10" when down
- Beautiful light, bright interior with reverse cycle heat and air
- Espar diesel heat for three season use
- New headliner installed at Hinckley
- Extensive canvas, sun covers, sun shades and full boat cover
- Dinghy and outboard included
- Only 1566 hours on her Yanmar 4JHE
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Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
Builder: Migrator Yacht Co.
Keel: Centerboard
LOA: 40 ft 8 in
Beam: 11 ft 10 in
LWL: 29 ft 2 in
Minimum Draft: 4 ft 2 in
Displacement: 20000 lbs
Ballast: 7800 lbs
Bridge Clearance: 50 ft 0 in
Total Power: 51 HP
Engine 1:
Engine Brand: Yanmar
Year Built: 1997
Engine Model: 4JH2E
Engine Type: Inboard
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Engine Hours: 1600
Propeller: Folding propeller
Engine Power: 51 HP
Fresh Water Tanks: Stainless steel (126 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: Fiberglass (47 Gallons)
Holding Tanks: (30 Gallons)
Manitou has a very traditional layout and is designed for a cruising couple. The owner's cabin is forward for the most headroom and privacy. The berths (with filler) are 6'8" long. The cabin has ash battens, good light, ventilation and storage.
The head is next aft and has two entries adding to the owner's seclusion. There is a vanity with stainless steel sink and showerhead faucet, molded shower pan with grates, storage and a marine toilet with "Y" valve and holding tank.
Amidships is a "U" shaped dinette with a teak table and facing starboard settee. The table is on a gas filled pedestal, converting the dinette to a double berth 6'4" long. Manitou has extra storage underneath and behind the settee's instead of pilot berths, which can be found on other models. There are lee cloths both port and starboard.
To starboard of the companionway is a sit down navigation station with a forward point of view, so you can be secure on either tack. There is also a wet locker.
The galley is aft, and to port of the companionway for air and light. It is "U" shaped and is a safe and efficient place to work.
The interior of Manitou is absolutely gorgeous. The use of an off white finish on vertical surfaces trimmed in satin finish teak is clean, bright and traditional. Deck prisms invite natural light into the already bright interior and create an interior that is very pleasant, even on the dreariest of days.
- All interior upholstery is teal Ultrasuede and is in beautiful condition.
- Interior appointments such as rugs and pillows convey.
- She has air conditioning while at the dock and an Espar diesel heater for those chilly days out on the water.
- New "Sound Down" headliner installed at Hinckley
Manitou is the perfect classic yacht. She is breathtakingly beautiful and is the epitome of class and sailing performance.
The galley is "U" shaped and on the port side as you enter the cabin. It is a safe and efficient galley in which to work.
- Double bowl stainless steel sinks.
- Force 10 gimbaled stainless steel propane stove with oven and safety bar.
- Sea Frost 110V engine drive refrigerator/freezer in 7.5 cu.ft. insulated box with two hinged lids and vinyl coated wire racks.
- Generous counter space.
- Ample food and dish storage.
- Trash basket.
- (2) Utensil drawers.
- (3) Overhead lights
- (2) 10 lb. propane tanks housed in lazarette with electric and manual shut off.
Sails & Rigging
Manitou's yawl rig lends unmatched versatility and allows her to be comfortable in all conditions. Her working sails are cleaned and reviewed every year by Meade Breese Sailmaker
- Main
- Working Jib
- Genoa
- Storm Jib (never used)
- Mizzen
- Mizzen Staysail (never used)
- Spinnaker (never used)
- Canvas covers for main and mizzen were new in '09.
- Both main and mizzen masts are painted aluminum, tapered and keel stepped with airfoil spreaders.
- All internal wires in masts are secured, yet removable.
- Stainless steel standing rigging
- Boom vang
- Genoa tracks are toerail mounted.
- Jib tracks with low profile cars are mounted on deck.
- Lewmar mainsheet traveler with Harken Hexaratchet System, cockpit mounted.
- Anderson winches are as follows: (2) Primaries, self tailing 2 speed - 48ST; (2) Halyard, self tailing 2 speed - 30ST; (1) Centerboard, self tailing -16ST; (1) Main reefing - 8C; (1) Mizzen halyard - 6C
- (3) Winch handles
- Deck is hand laminated with 1 1/2 oz. mat, 18 oz. biaxial and 24 oz. directional fiberglass cored with 3/4" end grain balsa.
- Deck is bonded to hull by 3M 5200 on the 6" flange and bolted every 6" by 1/4"x20 stainless bolts.
- Stanchion bases and genoa tracks fasten through deck and hull flange.
- Midship chocks of stainless steel.
- Solid teak toe rail.
- Exterior teak refinished in 2015
- Bow and Stern pulpits.
- Jack lines
- Electric windlass with foot switches at bow.
- Washdown pump in anchor locker.
- Plow anchor with chain and rode
- Danforth anchor
- Dodger (Canvas by Victoria)
- Mizzen awning (Meade Breese)
- Dodger, mizzen awning and connecting panel in "Cadet Grey" Sunbrella
- Hatch covers, companionway screening, binnacle cover and winch covers.
- Cockpit cushions are closed-cell foam covered with Phiphertex
- (8) Loose cockpit pillows covered in "Oyster" Sunbrella
- Summer awning canvas cover from main mast to stern with aluminum cross supports for use at anchor.
- Full Fairclough winter canvas cover with stainless framework.
- Large teak cockpit table seats 5 for dinner
- Small teak cockpit table for drinks
- 2003 Achilles 8'8" Inflatable
- 1992 Johnson 4HP OB
- Port boarding gate and ladder.
- (2) Stainless steel dorade vents on teak boxes.
- (3) Deck Prisims.
- (4) Cockpit Scuppers
- (4) Deck Scuppers
- (2) opening hatches.
- (11) Opening Lewmar Ports
- Magma Gas Grill
- Life Sling with bracket
- Fenders, docklines and coast guard gear.
- Jack lines.
- Man Overboard Pole.
- Horseshoe with "Manitou" on it.
- (2) Boat Hooks
- The Hull is an overbuild of hand layup construction.
- Materials are ISO gelcoat, vinyl ester and general purpose resin and a combination of 1 1/2 oz mat, 18 oz and 24 oz bi-ax fiberglass with an AIREX core.
- Hand laid one-piece hull has 6" hull flange.
- Extra laminate in all areas of stress concentration.
- Centerboard trunk is laminated within the hull structure.
- Centerline, ballast and sump areas are in excess of one inch solid glass resin.
- Interior of hull is gel coated.
- Molded fiberglass rudder with solid density polyester compound.
- Rudder stock is 1 1/2 " stainless steel and fully webbed inside the rudder.
- Rudder attachment to hull is by cast bronze rudder shoe, stuffing box at hull and a bearing at the cockpit sole.
- Centerboard is molded fiberglass.
- Centerboard pin in 1 1/2" stainless steel.
- Centerboard pennant leads aft to self tailing winch on cabin top at cockpit.
- Autohelm Knot, Depth, Wind Speed/ Wind Direction
- Autohelm ST6000, internal drive, autopilot.
- Raymarine Multi at nav station.
- Raytheon R20XX Radar at nav station.
- Raytheon Ray 201 VHF at nav station.
Manitou has full 12V and 110V ship's systems.
- There is a 12 volt and 110 volt custom, back lighted panel.There are 20, 12 volt and 4, 110 volt circuit breakers, lighted switch indicators and voltage and amp meters.
- Two AGM Batteries
- Wiring is color coded and to ABYC standards.
- There are (6) spun brass cabin reading lamps, (7) overhead glass lens lights and (1) navigation station lamp.
- There are full nav lights, steaming light on mast, combination anchor-tricolor and strobe at masthead, foredeck light on mainmast, flood light on mizzen mast and a compass light.
- (2) 30 amp Shore power inlets and cord.
- Link 10 Battery Monitor
- Xantrex True Charger 20
Plumbing and Mechanical
- Yanmar 4JHE, 51 HP with 1566 Hours and full instrumentation
- Three Blade Max Prop
- Morse control cables
- Racor fuel/water separator
- Cruisair 16K BTU Reverse Cycle Heat and Air Conditioning
- Espar Diesel Heater
- (6) Gallon stainless steel hot water heater
- Pressure hot and cold water to head and galley by 12v diaphragm pump.
- Electric sump pump for shower
- Electric and manual bilge pumps
- Non corrosive Marelon seacocks, through bolted and double clamped below waterline.
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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Herons Landing is located in a naturalized meadow setting- at the bottom of a beautiful vast hillside overlooking the Northumberland Strait.
A 66 foot expanse of ocean side windows offers spectacular views: Sunrises, Sunsets, and stars that touch the horizon at night.
Early Spring brings Lobster boats. As many as 45, at once, can be counted from our deck.
Wander over to the local docks and buy directly from the fishermen.
When the tide is out - grab a shovel & bucket and go clamming.
Or hunting for the elusive sand dollar.
Just relax and just watch the world go by.
If there is too much peace and quiet - join the party at a local Ceilidh.
Be part of the foot stomping, fiddle playing and step dancing.
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Back in 1998 when Bill and Kelly were visiting relatives in PEI, we fell in Love with Little Pond and this property happen to be for sale. The people are great, the food is excellent and well, the rest speaks for itself. Visit this area and you will imediately see why just like we did.
The Owner purchased this cottage in 2009
The breathtaking scenery, fresh air, the smell of the clean ocean, the food, its quiet and the local people are wonderful of course.
The ability to immerse yourself in nature and still have all the luxuries of modern living. A great place to relax and read or entertain friends and family.
We had a wonderful vacation here in PEI. We loved your beautiful cottage. Thank you so much for a great place to explore! This has been an unforgetable journey and we hope to return next year.
We had a great time reaquainting with other family on the island . We were able to keep our family of 8 and 2 children together without overcrowding . The aftermath of the tide going out kept the little ones amused in searching for treasures and the wind kept the adults busy with kite flying on days at the cottage . The spacious rooms ,kitchen and laundry facilities were a great asset .It offered a quiet time for all and the eclipse of the moon was sensational from our viewpoint with the telescope.
We stayed at Heron's Landing for a week as a group of 8 people. The cottage was perfect, lots of space and beautifully appointed. Never felt on top of each other but could all be in the same areas quite comfortably when we wanted to. The location is great, can just hang out at the cottage and enjoy but it's also not far from any of the east end locations like Greenwich, Brudenell, Basin Head etc. Will definately stay here again if we are a big group!
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James Franco Goes Back In Time To Get Rid Of His Terrible Goatee
If someone comes to you and tells you that 1) they have a time machine closet in their restaurant and 2) it's now your job to go back in time and prevent the Kennedy assassination because they're dying of cancer, would you do it?
James Franco would! As Jake Epping, freshly divorced high school history teacher on the new Hulu drama 11.22.63, he wastes no time throwing himself into the whacked-out world of espionage, time travel, and great suits, but he definitely makes some mistakes along the way.
1. Maybe you should ask if time traveling caused your friend's cancer before you hop in there?
Like, that is the first thing I want to know.
2. Never try to reach out to family members
Everyone from Futurama to Back to the Future has covered this, Jake! Reaching out to family members is the number one way to screw up your own timeline. He tries to call his dad, and something terrible happens immediately. LEARN FROM THIS.
3. Know your currency rates before you travel
His restaurant friend gave him a book of stats to help him earn money by gambling, and Jake almost blows it right away by placing a huge (by 1960s standards) bet at the parlor. Always do the math before you go.
4. Maybe help your friends out first
The show starts with one of Jake's adult students reading a story about the terrible way his family was murdered when he was a child. Jake eventually decides to help out, but only after he royally screws up his Kennedy mission. Maybe try to help this guy out first? I mean, you have three years to plan this Kennedy thing.
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Restaurant Dude already told you that if you jump back through the closet, anything you did in 1960 will be erased. The first time you screw up, jump back to the present, man! Otherwise you're just going to undo all the good stuff later!
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The 31-year-old has recovered from a hamstring injury and will be subject to a late fitness test ahead of Tuesday's clash with Newcastle, though Steven Pienaar is still sidelined
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"Phil is fully fit, it is now about making sure we're not taking any risks," said the Spaniard.
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"From a medical point of view he's fully fit."
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Cluster randomized trial in smoking cessation with intensive advice in diabetic patients in primary care. ITADI Study
It is a priority to achieve smoking cessation in diabetic smokers, given that this is a group of patients with elevated cardiovascular risk. Furthermore, tobacco has a multiplying effect on micro and macro vascular complications. Smoking abstinence rates increase as the intensity of the intervention, length of the intervention and number and diversity of contacts with the healthcare professional during the intervention increases. However, there are few published studies about smoking cessation in diabetics in primary care, a level of healthcare that plays an essential role in these patients. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an intensive smoking cessation intervention in diabetic patients in primary care.
Cluster randomized trial, controlled and multicentric. Randomization unit: Primary Care Team. Study population: 546 diabetic smokers older than 14 years of age whose disease is controlled by one of the primary care teams in the study. Outcome Measures: Continuous tobacco abstinence (a person who has not smoked for at least six months and with a CO level of less than 6 ppm measured by a cooximeter) , evolution in the Prochaska and DiClemente's Transtheoretical Model of Change, number of cigarettes/day, length of the visit. Point of assessment: one- year post- inclusion in the study. Intervention: Brief motivational interview for diabetic smokers at the pre-contemplation and contemplation stage, intensive motivational interview with pharmacotherapy for diabetic smokers in the preparation-action stage and reinforcing intevention in the maintenance stage. Statistical Analysis: A descriptive analysis of all variables will be done, as well as a multilevel logistic regression and a Poisson regression. All analyses will be done with an intention to treatment basis and will be fitted for potential confounding factors and variables of clinical importance. Statistical packages: SPSS15, STATA10 y HLM6.
The present study will try to describe the profile of a diabetic smoker who receives the most benefit from an intensive intervention in primary care. The results will be useful for primary care professionals in their usual clinical practice.
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Clinical Trials.gov Identifier: NCT00954967
It is known that tobacco is the principal isolated cause of avoidable morbimortality in developed countries. Half of these deaths are premature, provoking a loss of 5.5 million potential years of life annually, 3.3 million in men and 2.2 million in women
The morbimortality observed in diabetics is related to macro and microvascular complications, and tobacco has a multiplying effect on these vascular complications. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that tobacco consumption is associated with mortality due to isquemic heart disease in diabetic patients
According to recommendations in national and international guidelines, achieving smoking cessation is a priority in diabetic smokers, given that this group has two to four times more cardiovascular risk when compared to the general population
In the present study, Prochaska and DiClemente's Transtheoretical Model of Change will be used. This model describes a series of successive stages (precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance) that signal a different type of intervention depending on the person's stage. Despite the discrepency regarding the utility of this model in smoking cessation
Although there are differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, previous studies show that the majority of diabetic smokers are in the pre-contempative stage of Prochaska and DiClemente's model. In a study by Ruggiero et al, people that received some type of smoking cessation advice made more progress in the process of smoking cessation
Cooximeters have been used to demonstrate continued smoking abstinence. Consensus documents have recommended this technique, concluding that it is useful in diagnosing and in aiding with the process of smoking cessation
It its known that minimum advice for smoking cessation in the general population achieves a mean 5% smoking cessation in one year
Integrating pharmocological treatments that have been shown to be efficient in meta analyses and systematic revisions (nictone substitutes, Bupropion and Varenicline) has also been shown to be useful
Due to the difficulty of an interventon in a population as advised and resistant to change as diabetic smokers
Various studies have shown that the more intense an intervention, the better the results obtained. In Persson et al
Another study in diabetic smokers carried out in Minneapolis, Minnesota
There are only a few studies published about smoking cessation in diabetic smokers in PC, despite the fact that most diabetic patients visit their PC physician various times per year for routine check ups. According to the World Health Organization
For all of the abovementioned reasons, the effectiveness of an intensive smoking cessation intervention in diabetic smokers in PC, based on the Prochaska and DiClemente Transtheoretical Model of Change and motivational interview techniques, will be evaluated in the present study.
The present smoking cessation intervention in diabetic patients in PC, which uses an intensive strategy that is motivational, individualized, structured and adapted accoding to the Prochaska and DiClemente's Transtheoretical Model of Change, will cause a difference in continued abstinence of 12% between patients that receive the intervention versus those who do not. This takes into consideration the fact that smoking cessation in the general population is 5% with minimum advice
Principal objective
To evaluate the effectiveness of an intensive intervention to obtain continued smoking abstinence in diabetic patients in PC.
Secondary objectives
1. To study the effectiveness of an intensive smoking cessation intervention in the evolution of Prochaska and DiClemente's Transtheoretical Model of Change in diabetic patients in PC.
2. To study the effectiveness of an intensive smoking cessation intervention in the evolution of tobacco consumption in diabetic patients in PC.
3. To quantify the time spent on the intensive smoking cessation intervention versus usual clincial practice in PC.
Cluster randomized trial, controlled and multicentric. Randomization unit: Primary Care Team (PCT).
43 PCTs from the province of Barcelona that provide health coverage to urban, semirural and rural populations.
Study population
Type 1 and 2 diabetic smokers older than 14 years of age that receive routine diabetes care in the participating PCT. An active smoker is defined as a patient that responds affirmatively to the following questions: 1. Do you smoke currently? 2. Have you smoked more than 100 cigarettes in your lifetime? 3. Have you smoked any tobacco product in the last seven days?
Exclusion criteria
Patients with communication difficulties (cognitive or sensory deterioration, language barrier); patients that have not had check ups for their diabetes in the PCT for more than one year; patients with terminal illnesses, serious psychologial illnesses, active addictions to other psychoactive substances; patients that are already in the process of quitting smoking; patients that live more than six months outside of the territory assigned to the PCT; and patients who do not consent to participate in the study.
Withdrawl criteria
Any event that may lead to a situation that discourages the intervention or that may prevent communication with the healthcare professional.
Sample size calculation
The sample size has been calcuated by multipying the size of a randomized simple design by the design effect. In the simple randomized design, considering an alpha error of 0.05 a beta error of 0.20 in a bilateral contrast, and given that 15% of diabetics are smokers, 124 subjects were needed in each study group in order to determine a difference in continued abstinence of greater than or equal to 12% between study groups. A continued abstinence of 5% was assumed for the non intervention group, and a potential loss of follow-up of 20% was estimated.
Using an intracluster correlation coefficient of 0.05
Data Collection
Dependent Variables
• Continued abstinence (yes, no) is defined as at least six months without smoking and a CO breath level of <6 ppm, measured by a cooximeter in standard conditions.
• Stage change in Prochaska and DiClemente's Transtheoretical Model of Change (advance, maintained, backwards, relapse).
• Number of cigarettes per day, reported by the patient.
• Total time (in minutes) spent on the intervention.
Independent Variables
• Variables related to the patient (information obtained through an individualized interview):
- Administrative: PCT, PC professional, data collection date, patient code.
- Sociodemographics: date of birth, sex, level of education.
- Anthropometric: weight, height.
• Related to diabetes: type, year of diagnosis, type of treatment, presence of complications related to diabetes (peripheral arterial disease, ischemic heart disease, retinopathy, neuropathy, nephopathy).
• Related to associated pathologies: COPD, cerebrovascular accident, isquemic heart disease, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia.
• Variables related to tobacco consumption: age at initiation of habit, number of cigarettes per day, nicotine dependence (Fagerström test), motivation to quit (Richmond test), number of previous attempts to quit for at least 24 hours, smoking cessation treatment with mediciations, maximum time of abstinence, phase of the patient according to Prochaska and DiClemente's model (pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation-action), tobacco in usual environment (family, partner, friends, coworkers, classmates), perceived grade of harmfulness of tobacco on diabetes, point prevalence abstinence (smoking abstinence at the time of the visit and with a CO level of less than 6 ppm), length of abstinence.
• Variables related to the intervention: attendance of intervention visit, date of intervention visit, date of D day, time spent on intervention visit, medication used for smoking cessation, relapse, reason for relapse, CO level in breath, observations.
• Variables related to the one-year follow-up visit: attendance to follow-up visit, date of follow-up visit, smoking status, number of cigarettes per day, length of abstinence, phase of the patient according to Prochaska and DiClemente's model (pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation-action), CO level in breath, observations.
• Variables related to the PCT: years the PCT has been operating, assigned population, mean age of assigned population, whether or not it is a teaching center for residents, number of doctors, number of nurses, number of social workers, other specializations, number of centers.
Description of the Study
The phases of the study are:
Phase 1
Recruitment of the PCT: The project was presented to all of the potential PCTs in order to recruit health professional that were interested in participating. Both doctors and nurses were allowed participate. Those who wanted to collaborate signed a comittment form.
Phase 2
Forming the study groups (Intervention group (IG) and non intervention group (NIG)) and training the health professionals.
- The unit of randomization was the center. The centers were assigned to either the IG o the NIG by simple randomization, with a ratio of 1 to 1. The system of randomization was centralized and computerized.
- The professionals in the IG received a specific training program that consists of a motivational interview workshop and a pharmocological treatment workshop specialized for smoking cessation. Both workshops were geared towards diabetic smokers and were taught by experts. The professionals also received training in how to use the electronic data collection system and in the dynamics of the follow-up visits according the Prochaska and DiClemente's Transtheoretical Model of Change. The professionals in the NIG attened practical training session that covered the methodology of the study and how to use the electronic data collection system.
Phase 3
Recruitment of the patients and initial categorization in IG and NIG (currently the study is in this phase):
- Selection of patients: Patients were recruited as they visited the PCT. If in the month prior to closing the patient recruitment phase a professional had not recruited the number of patients required, a list of diabetic smokers could be obtained and the necessary number was selected by simple randomization. The professional called the selected patients to make an appointment. According to a previous estimation and taking into consideration the sample size, each professional had to recruit five patients. The form of recruitment, as well as the number of patients to be recruited by each professional, was considered feasible for professionals in routine clinical practice.
- Inclusion of patients: If a patient met the inclusion criteria, the doctor or nurse explained the study to the patient and solicited the patient's participation. If the subject agreed, he or she received information about the study and signed a consent form. If the subject did not wish to participate, the motives were documented.
- Initial categorization of patients: In the first contact with the patient, the following variables were collected using an individualized interview.
- Independent: administrative, sociodemographic, anthropometric, those related with diabetes, associated pathologies and those related to the smoking habit
- Dependent: length of visit
- All of the data is being registered in the electronic data collection system which includes measures to assure consistency and quality control.
- Pilot program: A pilot program will be carried out in subjects that will be excluded from the study so as not to affect the final results. The pilot program aims to evaluate: the process of inclusion of subjects, data collection using the electronic system and the difficulties encountered in the intervention and in the established circuits.
Phase 4
Intervention (only in IG): An intensive, individualized intervention using the motivational interview, conduct therapies and medications, adapted according to the stage of change of the patient, will be used. The number of visits will depend on the stage that the patient is in (five for pre-contemplation, seven for contemplation and eight for preparation-action). Patients can move forward and backward in their stage over the course of the study, and the study will adapt to these changes. The phases of the intervention will be detailed in the IG algorithm (see Figure
Figure 1
ITADI Intervention group study algorithm
ITADI Intervention group study algorithm.
The patients of the NIG group will receive the usual care in PC, and at the end of the study, the NIG professionals will also be trained in the motivational interview and in pharmocological treatments.
Phase 5
Final categorization (in IG and NIG): The dependent variables will be collected in all subjects at one-year post- inclusion. The motives for withdrawl and loss of follow-up from the study will be recorded and a flow chart of participants will be created over the course of the study.
Phase 6
End of data collection: Data collection will be concluded after carrying out the final patient categorization. Because of the periodic monitoring of the data in the electonic data collection system, incoherencies will have been located and corrected.
Phase 7
Data analysis and diffusion of results: The collected data will be analyzed, the final report will be elaborated and the results will be diffused in various scientific outlets.
Statistical analysis
Data will be analyzed in concordance with the Consort Cluster guide
Quality Control
Several procedures were employed to ensure the quality of the study data, thus maximizing the validity and reliability of the program delivery and outcome assessments. They were:
• An eight -hour training the professionals who participated in the study in motivational interviewing, pharmocological treatment of smoking, and use of the electronic data collection system.
• Use of an electronic data collection system with a system of warnings and intenal coherency noms.
• A full time person contracted to provide technical and methodological support to the study participants.
• Regular meetings and mailings between members of the study group and all participating centers.
Ethical Aspects
In the first contact with the patient, he or she will be given information about the study and will sign an informed consent form if he or she wishes to participate. The informed consent will detail the ethical conditions and the paricipant's right to intimacy, anonymity, confidentiality, withdrawl and information. The researchers also commit to respect the norms of good clinical practice, as well as the requirements of the Helsinki Declaration. The protocol has been evaluated and approved by the Ethical Committee of Scientific Reseach and the Jordi Gol Center for Investigation in Primary Care. Confidentiality of data: Only the investigators and monitors/auditors of the study will have access to the data of the subjects who agreed to participate.
Although there are studies that use intensive interventions in smoking cessation such as the ISTAPS study
One of the stengths of the ITADI study is the population of the study, diabetic patients that attend PC. Another strength is the design of the study, which is pragmatic in terms of time and material resources needed. If the hypothesis of the present study is confimed, it could be incorporated into current PC clinical practice guidelines. The large number of healthcare professionals and patients involved in the present study is another strength, as it reinforces the external validity of the data.
The randomization has been done by PCT and not by patient, so as to avoid the unethical situation in which a healthcare professional would feel obligated to use the motivational interview and pharmocotherapy in only some of his or her patients. This will also prevent contamination between healthcare professionals of the same center. Although the unit of randomization is the center, the intervention is given at the individual level and the outcomes are also measured at this level. The estimation of the design effect will be taken into account in all of the main analyses.
The motivational interview techiques require personal communication and empathy from the part of the healthcare professional towards his or her patient. The training sessions are one full day, although it is known that the more training the professional has in motivational interviewing, the more he or she is able to apply the learned skills
Cooximetry is a technically simple and affordable method to apply in PC, as well as valid and useful
Finally, the current study will try to describe the profile of a diabetic smoker who receives the most benefit from an intensive smoking cessation intervention in PC. The goal is to use the results of the study as a foundation for a protocolized intervention in PC guidelines for diabetes
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
LR, SP, CM, GP participated in the revision of the bibliography and design of the study methodology. SP formulated the study question. LR and MA contributed in the writing and translation of the present manuscript. The members of the ITADI Group are participating in recruitment and follow-up of the patients. All of the authors have read and approved of the present manuscript.
This study was carried out with financial help from an Evaluation of Sanitary Technologies and Health Services grant (Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias y Servicios de Salud), given by the Carlos III Health Institute (PI08/90345) in 2008.
The authors appreciate the support from the Unit of Research Support of Metropolitan North and the Unit of Research Support of Barcelona and. Nodo Cardiocat (Research Network on Preventive Activities and Health Promotion -G06-128). Furthermore, they thank IDIAP Jordi Gol, in particular Teresa Rodriguez and Cecilia Borau.
The authors would also like to thank the Catalan Institute of Health and Health Consortium of Terrassa, PANEM (Prestaciones de Asistencia Médica al Personal Municipal), as well as their respective centers of employment (ABS La Llagosta. ABS La Garriga, ABS Passeig Sant Joan, ABS Badia, ABS Terrassa Nord), for allowing them to attend numerous design and coordation meetings for the study.
The authors also thank all of the associated researchers of the ITADI Group that have made the development of the field work possible.
Associated researchers:
Ma Eugèni Adzet, Jose Javier Alba, Enriqueta Alcaraz, Immaculada Alegre, Montserrat Alegret, Carolina Alejo, Jordi Alfonso, Carles Alonso, Carmen Alonso, Cristina Alós, Judit Alsina, Ma Montserrat Alsina, Albert Alum, Paula Álvarez, Marta Amatller, Paloma Amil, Eulàlia Andreu, Rosa Ma Andreu, Antonio Aranzana, Melanie Ardite, Eva Ares, Montserrat Argila, Maria Jesús Arroyo, Joan Assens, MariaAtero. Rita Ayala, Gema Badell, Alicia Balsells, Esther Barberan, Anna Barceló, Montserrat Baré, Alex Bassa, Carme Batalla, Noemi Beatriz, Joan Begué, Esperanza Bello, Ma Antònia Benedi ,Ma Rosa Benedicto, Yolanda Bermejo, Jesus Bernad, Nuria Bertolin, Maite Bertran ,Begoña Bessa , Alesandro Bilardi, Paola Blanco, Lidia Bombo, Elena Bonilla ,Sandra Bosch, Ana Ma Bravo, Maria Luisa Bravo, Montse Brugada, Montserrat Bulnes, Alicia Burgos, Inmaculada Burgos, Raquel Buron, Teresa Cabello, Rosa Cabello, Ana Calderón, Ana Calonge,Francisco Javier Calpe, Ana Callejero, Xavier Camarena ,Josepa Canadell, Gemma Canals, Ricard Canals, Raquel Cano, Erika Cano, Silvia Cárceles , Claudia Cardoner, Jose Manuel Carmona, Montserrat Carol, Montse Carrasquer, Remedios Carreño,Dolores Carrillo, Miquel Casadevall,Ramon Casals,Gemma Casanovas, Isabel Casas, Ana Cascos, Miriam Ceña, Ana Clara Cereijo, Rosario Ciganda, Miquel Cirera, Magi Claveria, Carme Clopés, Anna Clot, Sònia Codina, Glòria Colomé, Araceli Comas, Mo Carmen Conde, Toni Contreras, Antonia Correas, Imma Corretjé, Gemma Cortés, Dolors Costa, Laura Cristel, Silvia Crivillé, Jose Manuel Cruz, Maria Isabel Cuenda, Joaquina Cuevas, Judith Cuspinera , Marta Chaves, CristinaDapena, Ma Dolors Daura, Rosa De la Iglesia, Ma Amparo De la Poza, Cristina Delso, Trinidad Diaz, Fernando Diaz , Alicia Díaz, Ma Amparo Diez, Joan Dordas, Joan Elias, Gerard Escriche, Ma Teresa Esteban, Jose Luis Estebanez, Rosa Ma Esteve, Gema Estrada, Marc Ezcurra, Anna Fabra, Eva Fábrega, Gemma Fanlo, Josep Feliu, Juan Fdo Fernandez, Teresa Fernandez, Esther Fernandez, Jorge Fernández, Belén Fernández, Josefina Fernández,Antonia Ferre, Montserrat Ferrer, Mo del Mar Ferrero, Inmaculada Figueras, Souhel, Flayeh, Susana Florentí, Teresa Font, Ma José Font, Didac Fores, Martí Fradera, Jordi Gago, Nuria Garcia, Manel Garcia, Elisenda Garcia, Carlos Garcia, Concepcion Garcia, Carme García, Marta García, Isabel García, Eva García, Marina Garrel, Patricio Garrido, Isabel Garro, Veronica Gasque, Griselda Gasulla, Isabel Gavin, Marta Gelpí, Jana Gerhard, M. Àngels Gibert, Silvia Giménez ,M. Eugenia Giménez, Montserrat Giné, Anna Giné, Alfonso Girona, Carmen Gómez, Ana Gómez-Quintero, Esther Gonzalez, Almudena González, Begoña González, Cristina González, Concepción Gonzàlez, Maria Gordillo, Sergi Granell, Francisco José Granero, Silvia Granollers, Elisenda Guarné, Isabel Guerrero, Carolina Guiriguet, Mercè Guiu, Agustí Guiu, Juana Gutierrez, Felipe Maria Hernandez, Eustaquio Hernandez, Enric Hernandez, Rosa Ma Hernandez, Eva Hernández., Maria del Mar Herranz, Marta Herranz, Juan Herreros, Ma Gloria Huerta, Carme Iglesias, Carmen Ioana Jarca, Núria Jarque, Conxita Jordán, Purificación Jordana, Teresa Jose Maria, Azucena Lara, Miriam Lara,Mónica León, Manuela Licerán, Mercedes Liroz ,Isabel López, Victor Miguel López, Rosa Maria López, Aurora López, Cristina López, Mo Rosa López, Cristina López, Virtudes López, Maite López. Ma Begoña López. Maite Lorén. Ma Carmen Losada, MaribelLozano, Roque Lucas, Lorena Luengo, Carmen Llamas, Mercedes Llorente, Immaculada Malé, Regina Malfeito, Susana Manero, Ma José Manzano, Blanca Mañé, Maria José Marco, Montse Marles, Jordi Martí, Nuria Martí, Mo Teresa Martí, Maria Benita Martín, Juan José Martín, Ma Gloria Martinez, Esther Martínez, Ana Martínez, Fèlix-Salvador Martínez, Rafael Martínez, Ma Sierra Martínez, Xavier Martínez, Miriam Martínez, Milagros Martínez, Javier Martos, Mercè Mas, Imma Mas, Meritxell Masip, Carme Mata, Atanasio Mata, Francesca Mata, Marisol Mayorga, Rafael Medrano, Rosa Melero, Roser Melgar, Estebana Mendoza, Jordi Mestre, Ma Teresa Millán, Joan Mogas, Ma Lluïsa Molina, Gemma Molina, Marta Molina, Ma Jesus Molina, Eva Mon, Ericka Montalvo, Isabel Montaner, Meritxell Montasell, Montserrat Montasell, Ma Remedios Montes, Laura Montes, Susanna Montesinos, Ana Montoliu, Susana Mora, Amparo Moraga, Sandra Moraleda, Beatriu Moreno, Juan Andrés Moreno, Gema Mota, Carlos Luis Mota, Mari Fe Muñoz, Mo José Narvaez, Montserrat Navarro, Carmen Navarro, M. Paz Nieto, Laura Nieto, Montserrat Ochando, Jose Ignacio Olivares, Josep Oliveras, Sonia Omella, Pilar Orellana, Julià Ortega, Raquel Ortega, Sergi Ortiz, Eva Pablos, Encarna Pachon, Jesús Pagés, Lidia Palau, Carme Pallarés, Carme Pallarés, Daniel Pañart, Carme Pascua, M. Encarnación Pastor, Marta Paytubi, Marta Pedrol, Ma Dolores Peleato, Xavier Peral. Yolanda Perez. Edurne Pérez, Montserrat Pérez, Juan Antonio Pérez, Ana Maria Pérez, David Pérez, M. Teresa Pérez, Ma José Pérez, Ana Maria Pérez del Molino, Maria P-Hervada, Mar Pinos, Lucio Pinto, Núria Piquer, Ma Antònia Pons, Alex Prats, Josep Puig, Ma Luisa Puigcerver, Francesc Pujol, Jordi Pujol, Cecilia Quer, Amelia Quílez, Núria Rafols, Concepcion Ramírez, Elisenda Realp, Estibaliz Redondo, Anna Reixach, Montserrat Reverté, Isabel Rey, Ma Begoña Ribas, Ana Maria Ribatallada,Gema Rico, Maria Riera, Lydia Riera, Sofia Riu, Carles Rius, Nuria Rivero, Agueda Robles, Ma Teresa Rodellar, Jose Luis Rodenas, Inés Rodríguez, Vanesa Rodríguez, Isabel Rodríguez, Mònica Rodríguez, Silvia Roig, Ma Isabel Román, Fina Romanyà, Mireia Rosàs, Montserrat Roviralta, Mariano Rozas, Marta Ruberte, Eva Rubio, Felisa Rubio, Ma Teresa Ruiz, Mercè Ruiz, Sonia Ruiz, Olga Ruiz, Josep Maria Ruiz, Fernando Rupérez, Mo Mar Rus, Victòria Sabaté, Juan Antonio Sabio, Maria Assumpció Sagarra, Fina Sala, Fara Sanchez, Mo Belen Sanchez, Marta Sanchez, Sònia Sánchez, Carolina Sánchez, Roger Antonio Sánchez. Sara Sancho, Anselma Sandin, Ana Maria Santín, Gisela Sanz, Nieves Sanz, Alejandro Serra, Josefina Servent, Susana Sevillano, Gemma Simon, José Francisco Sobrino, Lourdes Sodric, Ma Pilar Solé, Merce Soler, Ma Luisa Sole, Esther Soria, Yolanda Suárez, Ana Maria Subias, Francesc Tarrés, Maria Pilar Tejero, Encarnació Tor, Olga Torner, Montse Torra, Mo Lourdes Torrabadella, Nativitat Torres, Araceli Torrubia, Jordi Tost, Ana Turnés, Esther VacasMa Carme Vallduriola, Antonio Vallejo, Pilar Vazquez, Inmaculada Vázquez, Assumpció Vàzquez, Ramon Vecayos, Rosa Ma Verdú, Concepció Vergara, Montserrat Vidal, Angels Vidaña, Ma Angela Vila, Rosa Vila, Carme Vila, Ramon Vilà, Imma Vilafranca, Maria Pilar Vilagrasa, Anna Vilaseca, Florencia Villanova, Dosinda Villanueva, Ma Carmen Viñes, Asunción Wilke, Carolina Yeste, Maria Dolors Ylla, Maria Vega Zafra, Monica Zambrano
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