To: William SPeari l
From: Lesley Groff
Sent Wed 1/22/2014 3:06:20 PM
Subject: Re: Follow-up
Hi Bill...would a call today at 2:30 EST work for you?
Please let me know...and if so, please provide a number for Jeffrey to call you on.
thanks, Lesley
On Jan 21, 2014, at 1:43 PM, William Spear •, ;• wrote:
Lesley,
I can appreciate that Jeffrey is busy and often hard to reach and naturally I respect
his time.
It would be greatly appreciated to arrange a conversation in the next two days as I myself
am about to leave the US for an extended period as part of my work with disaster
relief in Asia, the Mid-East and elsewhere. As an organization, Second Response
(the initiative of Fortunate Blessings Foundation which I founded 16 years ago) is
entering a critical time, a major turning point made that much more significant as a
result of our trauma team now on the ground in Tacloban, Philippines. The word
from there is that our work is felt to be extremely valuable by UNICEF, World
Vision, WHO, Save the Children and many other relief agencies. We are hearing
this from others as well.
Should you or Jeffrey wish to scan through the daily Blog — Second Response (with
photos) from the Philippines, click on the link. The 5econd Response home page
also has a three minute video outlining our work. The bigger site, Fortunate
Blessings Foundation, has much more history and background.
What is pressing now is education-based funding for training and credible evaluation of
our methodologies in the field and staff development so that we can reach more
children. We've retained (and are hoping to hire in the next two weeks) a highly
qualified PsyD, Michelle Wang, who has been the prior Program Director at the
VA Hospital PTSD Clinic in San Francisco.
Can you mention all this to Jeffrey and let me know if we can have that conversation? For
the 17 years we've known each other (we first met at Stephen Jay Gould's
apartment and then I consulted at the NYC residence), we have never discussed
my relief work. I think he still sees me as working with people who are dying while
in fact I am focused mostly on disaster relief.
Now is a time I believe his valuable support can truly make a huge difference.
With thanks,
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Bill
"Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world." Thomas
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