Scurry for all that she does to advocate for each client. Prior to that, we worked with her at QCI Behavioral Health for five years.
Scurry has been the Executive Director of Safe Journey House for the past five years and has assisted us with care we are trying to access for our clients. Over the past ten years, Patrons for Peace Project and Vernessa Scurry, MA, have worked together coordinating care for consumers accessing mental health services. His multifaceted talents truly enrich the organization! We are so very thankful for all the many unique areas of expertise that Michael brings to the table to assist our clients and our organization. This is one example of the behind-the-scenes legal assistance he provides 24/7 for Patrons for Peace Project.
He walked us through the court procedure, so we were able to accompany her in the courtroom. We had to help the mother take out a restraining order against the landlord.
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He advised us on how to proceed to protect this mother and son. Michael helped to guide us through a particularly heartbreaking case involving a mother and disabled son who were being threatened by their landlord. Michael has always been available to answer a question Patrons for Peace Project may have, reviewing a letter from the courts, advising a client what their rights are, at times representing and other times directing how to get a public defender. Some of our client’s experience substance use disorders and are consumers of supportive mental health services that need his assistance to help get their life back on track.
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He has donated so much pro bono work over the years assisting our clients with a myriad of issues such as DWIs, theft, assaults and MVA troubles. Perhaps the most impactful assistance that has come from Michael has been his assistance with clients as a criminal defense lawyer. Michael has even helped with fundraisers playing music as he can play percussion instruments, guitar, saxophone, bass, and the harmonica. He has assisted with grant writing as we apply to get funding for homeless individuals. Starting with his editing skills as a journalist he has proofread every piece of material we have ever sent out and published. A lawyer, journalist, musician, and all-around Renaissance man, he began by offering his services to incorporate PPP in 2004. Without him Patrons for Peace would not exist.
This June we are incredibly happy to feature the exceptionally talented C. We were able to help four homeless individuals by applying for Social Security disability benefits and eventually housing them. (A law requiring heat was already on the books.) Now we have a law requiring landlords to provide air-conditioning to indoor living units during the hot summer months. We were successful in presenting a Petition with nearly 100 signatures to City Hall. We consulted with officials in other jurisdictions that had passed similar legislation. We met with the local mayor and individual council members. We were instrumental in pushing and helping to pass an ordinance in the City of Laurel requiring that air conditioning be provided by landlords for their tenants. Then they were assisted with halfway-house placement when finished treatment. These were individuals who were put out of local shelters for behaviors caused by substance use disorder issues. We were able to help nine individuals get into treatment programs. His treatment was successful, and he can now see. We then were able to partner with the Wilmer Eye Clinic (for over a year) and provide transportation to Baltimore City while housing him and arranging for him to have two surgeries on each eye. Immediately we put him into a hotel for safety. We came across a homeless man who was almost blind. We purchased 16 phones for homeless individuals so we could immediately begin working with people in crisis and connect eight of them with QCI Behavioral Health. Patrons For Peace Project continued to hand out masks and hand sanitizer daily. After starting out with us as a driver, Bob has transformed into a valuable multi-faceted resource for our clients. He also assisted some of our clients with paperwork to straighten out some tax issues. His primary focus was transportation, but he was also able to help clients apply to redeem stolen stimulus checks. Bob Reilly, our assistant and driver, made it possible for us to continue to provide many valuable services under these challenging circumstances. The COVID-19 Pandemic continued to interfere with the normal flow of social service agencies by slowing down and backing up services available to the homeless population.
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