Victor Bloomberg, LCSW
Victor is the originator and principal designer of the company's software and co-founder of Info Power To The People, Inc. He is a second-generation community organizer dedicated to forming an effective response to the question: Where do we go from here: chaos or community?
Victor integrates disparate ideas and experiences within a collaborative team. His communication style uses common language and graphics to translate complexity into comprehensible concepts. Consistent success in a broad range of health, mental health and social service environments reflects exceptional analytical abilities, dedication to the principle of personal responsiblity and passion for an equitable distribution opportunity and resources:
Individuals and Families – His work as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker was launched through hospice care with a specialization in pediatrics. This provided opportunities to see the struggles of patients and their families in diverse circumstances: psychiatric hospitalization, community health clinic, outpatient mental health treatment, psychiatric day treatment, home health and private practice. Recognition of the potential for personal transformation and a focus on a person's strengths became key lessons learned. Organizations – Turn-around of debilitated projects became a specialty. Success was achieved for a social service agency's administrative department, an outpatient adolescent mental health department, a psychiatric day treatment program, a social service case management program. Fundamental lessons were learned from an organization that closed (outpatient mental health clinic) and one that moved through bankruptcy (psychiatric hospital). A sequence of superior departmental directors have been invaluable, positive role models for professional conduct and administrative diligence. Communities – Victor came of age during a time of great social change; his family actively participated in it. This experience informs his perspective that resources, opportunity and preparation enable community-based teams to transform the local infrastructure. The most recent validation of this point-of-view was his work, through the Peace Corps, in Paraguay (2006-2008). The three businesses were launched and continue to be successfully run by persons that live in a city garbage dump. Their efforts also led to construction of housing outside of the dump (which is progressing towards completion). Information Technology and Change Management – The relational database that he designed for a social service case management program continues to be used, a decade after it was first deployed. The analysis of workflow and the user interface reflected the active participation of the staff who spoke seven first-languages. Our current management information system expresses his vision for the development of new capacity within individuals, organizations and communities to create new wealth in marginalized communities.Most gratifying is the community of friends formed in the trenches of the “good fight”. This is a network of champions of the vulnerable, advocates of the dispossessed, and builders of community resources. Each of us is committed to leading a purposeful life that calls upon the angels of our better selves to form sustainable, humane, just communities.