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Community Voice Mail (CVM) provides free,24 hour access to voice mail for people intransition and crisis directly linking them to

jobs, housing, and hope. It is a free servicefor people who have a case manager.

The CVM Summit program is part of thenational network of CVM sites, empoweringpeople living in poverty, transition and

homelessness rebuild their lives byconnecting them to jobs, housing,informat ion and hope. We do this bycustomizing and distributing communicationstechnology via a network of community-based services.

Users receive a personal phone number (witha 330 area code) and create their ownpersonal greeting. The have the ability toretrieve/receive messages 24 hours a dayfrom any phone. Only the user will be able to

hear messages. The system sounds like aregular phone with voice mail capacity.

Info Line Inc. trains case managers on howto instruct consumers to use CVM. Enrollingtakes approximately 10 Minutes!

If you are interested in learning more aboutCVMS please call 330-315-1349 or emailmgibbs@infolineinc.org

CONNECT WITH THE WORLD

THANK YOU

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Our program is funded by foundation grants,government, and generous individuals from

community members like you.

If you are a local agency interested in learningmore, becoming a partner or donating to the

Community Voice Mail Summit program pleasecontact Mike Gibbs by email

mgibbs@infolineinc.org or by phone at330-315-1349.

CVMS is available in Summit County with thegenerous support of:

Charter One Bank

Cisco Foundation

City of Barberton

Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation

United Way of Summit County

OMNOVA Solutions Foundation

Summit County

Welty Foundation

A Community partnership turning phone lines

into lifelines

A Program of

II couldnt get in touch with clients. Employerscouldnt get in touch wit h be so frustrating just an enormous amount of CVM allows us

to leave messages for our clients without undue delays, and for our clients

to stay in touch with progress or questions. This allows us to serve more

clients in a more ef ficient manner.

Sandra Jeffries, BA PACE Program

Thats the magic of voicemail. It

seems like such a small thing. I can tell youits huge.

Since I got Community Voice Mail,

everything changed. Everything

became possible. I was able to find

work and find a home. It gave me a

new start on life.

Ginny, once homeless

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WATCH OUR VIDEOS

AT WWW.CVM.ORG

By placing this simple but critical tool in the hands of people in need,

Every other social service immediately Becomes accessible.

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.Easy to Distribute and Use

You only need a few minute and a touch-tone phone to issue a CVMS Number.

Who Uses CVMS?

Community Voice Mail Summit partners withmany community organizations serving those

in crisis and transition:

Homeless Domestic Violence Veterans

Unemployed Foster Youth Natural

Disasters

CVMS empowers people to take control of their lives. It is used by people using casemanagement services with partnering

agencies to accomplish goals in areas of: Housing Safe communications

Employment Contacting family

Health care Legal Services

Social services Education

CVMS is for individuals that:

do not have a phone, Have a phone but no answering machine,

Have a cell phone but with limitedminutes, or

are living in a potentially abusivesituation

Once you are assigned and set up with your CVMS number you can record a message

for people when they call. You can give itout to employers, landlords, case workers,family, friends, and others. There is no limiton how much or little you use it. You will beassigned a personal password to call anduse the system.

1. The client dials in

2. Records a simple greeting

3. Creates a secure password

4 . The client is reconnected !

QUALIFYING FOR CVMS