July 1st, 12:00-2:00pm, potluck, Escarosa suicide prevention Coalition, Lakeview center, 1110 W. lakeview ave., Pensacola, FL, 32501

  John Thomas Winskas Attended Event: 

Tuesday, July 1st, 11:30-2:00pm, potluck, Escarosa suicide prevention Coalition, Lakeview center, 1110 W. lakeview ave., Pensacola, FL, 32501

• Walked to Lakeview activity center, 110 W. Lakeview ave, Pensacola, FL, 32501, from home 1517 E Lloyd st. Pensacola, FL, with the  carmalized/ fried peach, apple, cornbread, marshmallow, casserole I prepped for the potluck a few days ago.
• Stopped at fish & loaves thrift store on the way to the potluck
• bought toiletries & writing items ($3.50)
• soap 2-4 bars
• toothpaste
• 5 toothbrushes (free from fish & Loaves)
• 1 pair of small bandage shears
• 1 pair of nail clippers
• 2 fish loaves pamphlets 
• 1-2 bottle of lotion
• loss
• Gorton information/scratch paper note pad
• 2 pens
• Street outreach on the way to the ERSP coalition potluck
• James was gone 
• left a bag with 1 fish & loaves pamphlet 
• 2 toothbrushes
• 1 pair of nail clippers
• 1 pair of small bandage shears
• 1 bottle of lotion
• 1 bottle of toothpaste
• 1 floss
• 1-2 soap bars
• A 211 information card, Emergency information card, and Florida Core card
• 10-20 Gorton information/scratch paper
• 1 pen
• 2 apples
• 2 mandarins
• 1 bottle of water
• Continued walking to lakeview activity center
• gave another person a 211 information card, Emergency information card, and Florida Core card.
• Continued walking to lakeview activity center and arrived at around 11:30am
• Set caramelized peach & apple, cornbread, and marshmallow casserole on the table to serve at potluck.
• Met Rachelle at the activity center.
• set-up
• started putting together care packets.
• Moved tables & Chairs with Lakeview activity center staff member to set up for event.
• continued putting together care packets as other ERSP coalition members showed up to the potluck/ meeting.
• meeting
•  Tried 1 of each dish (2 of the homemade baked beans and boneless chicken), baked beans, fried chicken boneless 2 pieces, fried chicken drumstick, homemade baked beans 2 Spoonfuls, 1 spoonful of macaroni, 1 spoonful of sonny's baked beans, 1 chocolate cookie, 1 macadamia nut cookie, 1 miniature brownie, 1 homemade cookie, 1 spoonful of strawberries, 1 large spoonful of the carnalized apple & peach, cornbread, marshmallow, casserole.
• Listened to the ERSP Coalition members talk about their experiences and issues when dealing with psychological trauma at shelters, veterans groups, people and families with lived experiences.
• Tried to learn how other members of the coalition are participating to figure out what I can and/or should participate in moving forward and what organizations I can or want to learn from and/or contribute to.
• packed up the dessert I made to bring home to share with my family and other and grabbed 4 cookies for the road before leaving.
• After the meeting visited the Lakeview mobile response team building
• picked up a stack of mobile response team business cards/ response cards
• Let them know I have been handing out the business cards/ response cards I have picked up from events.
• learned about the mobile response team from a team member ( I apologize if I forgot your name)
• 15-30 members of lakeview mobile response team
• most if not all members have a psychology degree or bachelors degree and further training during and after onboarding with the mobile response team (according to team member).
• the MRT is on call 24/7
• the MRT does not transport patients but can put patients in contact with transport resources if necessary
• The MRT can send a trained professional out to help/assist/evaluate or talk to at risk or episodic individuals.
• MRT responds on scene around the city/county.
• After visiting the Lakeview mobile response team building walked to the BRACE building.
• Asked a BRACE staff member if it was ok to leave all of the MRT business/response cards 15-20 except 5 I kept for myself to hand out personally). 
• Left the 15-20 MRT business cards where instructed to near the other BRACE bussiness cards on the BRACE window.
• Took 15-20 preparedness pamphlets to hand to others before leaving BRACE building.
• started walking to publix
• on the way to publix
• Checked on James to make sure he got the toiletries/ carebag
• met mark and james at on jame's steps
• gave them another bottle of water
• gave them each 2$ (4$ total) incase they needed to catch a bus to another part of town.
• listened to mark who plays the guitar at sixth babtist church on davis and blount on sunday's at 11:00am.
• Gave mark the last apple and mandarin I brought with me from home
• gave mark the rest of the toiletries (soap, toothbrushes, lotion, a fish & oaves pamphlet ect.) I bought earlier after putting them in a pensacola public library cup I got from the unityfest I volunteered at for the ERSP Coalition with Rachelle.
• Leaned mark was from Beloxi and played the guitar for 40 years.
• Met John who showed up while james, mark, and I were talking, John handed them each a new testament, 
• John said a prayer with Mark and I after James left before leaving.
• gave mark a 3/4 of cookie and ate pieces of a brownie from the ERSP coalition meeting, while mark continued to tell me about how he ended up playing the guitar for the sixth babtist church
• gave mark 3/4 of a cookie to hold on to for James when he returned.
• the rest of the cookies were crumbled in the bag.
• got directions from Mark to the church.
• started walking to publix after leaving Mark before james returned
• after walking a block or two turned around and walked back to Mark.
• Remembered mark asked about what I did and that  I still had a care packet of pamphlets, materials, and items I picked up while at the Juneteenth unity fest, the NWFL american Redcross volunteer recognition event, training at the Escambia county public safety building, that included information and item from community health, lakeview center, among other organizations in my red cross pull-string bag, (still have another bag and mug to hand out from the Juneteenth unity fest, usually takes me a while to hand things out) . 
• walked back to the steps and handed mark a community health bag full of items from the Juneteenth Unity fest, American red cross NWFL volunteer recognition event, Escambia county public safety building, among others.
• (included water bottle, sun lotion, antibacterial spray, 988 suicide prevention hotline wrist band, among other items).
• Continued walking to publix
• followed Marks directions to the sixth baptist church and walked past it.
• bought 1 gallon of milk, 3 pounds of bananas ($.65 per pound-$2 for 8 bananas- $.25 a banana, and 18 eggs)- had a dollar left put it in the anise box as i'm going to start using anise in place of breath mints at $5 for a large bottle of anise could last me a month or two.
• I've been experimenting with different mouthwash recipes
• Walked home from publix
• Returned mom's 18x10 tempered glass baking dish to refrigerator after making deserts from caramelized apple &peach, cornbread, marshmallow casserole with the ice cream I made earlier and the cookie crumbles in the sandwich bag I got from the ERSP coalition meeting.
• Returned dad's type c charger that I borrowed from his bed side before I left this morning.