A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

Advisory Committee resources, Minnesota Advocates will also identify volunteers with
professional knowledge and experience related to counseling victims of trauma, and other
professional services to be available at the sites where statements will be taken. Minnesota
Advocates will make available to statement takers a list of referrals to providers of legal,
immigration and mental and public health services, for distribution to potential statement
givers as may appear advisable. In conjunction with community resources, Minnesota
Advocates will identify sites for statement taking that will be of optimal convenience for
the Liberian community, such as in churches, schools and community centers. Sites will
be staffed, on designated days and times, with statement takers and, if possible, with one
counseling volunteer per site. Statement givers will be given opportunities both to sign up for
appointments in advance, and to appear at the sites on a walk-in basis; Ensure that statements
will be recorded in such a manner as to facilitate their input into the TRC data base and their
subsequent analysis; Minnesota Advocates will identify a team of volunteers to analyze the
data and draft the comprehensive project Report, reflecting analysis of statements, project
recommendations and inputs from both the national and community advisory committees
for submission to the TRC.
7. Project Liaisons The TRC will identify to Minnesota Advocates a single individual to act
as a point of contact and liaison between the Parties with respect to the Project. Minnesota
Advocates identifies its Deputy Director Jennifer Prestholdt as Minnesota Advocates point of
contact and liaison with the TRC. Either organization may change its point of contact/liaison
at will, by written notice to the other organization. The points of contact will endeavor to
communicate regularly, and no less than weekly, on the status of their organizations’ respective
operations.
8. Taking Statements Statements will be taken using, as nearly as possible, the TRC Statement
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