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Savannah Area Interfaith Taskforce on Ending Homelessness

Next Steps

Exploratory Meeting (1/17/2013) Follow-up

Survey development

Possible activities, actions, development scenarios

Create Advisory Board Create Focus Groups to study, evaluate, plan development of organization Seek startup capital, funding for development steps Define action plan & development steps for Housing First Develop entity development strategy, seek best organizational structure

501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), L3C, LLC, hybrid Followup meeting topics, develop list, ask for suggestions Interfaith approach confirmation of intentions, efforts, development, outreach to other

denominations, faiths, locate others already engaged in some forms of interfaith activities

or promoting faiths coming together on other topics & to break down barriers to working

together

Study groups on: Toxic Charity Disrupting Homelessness

Subsequent meeting topics, agendas, develop groups to make these events happen,

organize to support education, awareness efforts of effective faith outreach approaches to

the served populations Street ministries as an effective outreach tool for congregations, new engagements with

current street ministries... (document unique aspects of street ministries, history) Aggregate efforts, buying power Voice within community Develop new volunteer recruitment, development approaches, (feeding, clothes,

ministry (love, with effective discipleship, prayer teams, one-on-one relationship

development to seek trust [working with them in their best interest])) Develop common model for all street ministries to remove enablement label for all

ministries Develop common model to deal with needy & greedy understandings within our

volunteers & develop ways to approach & deal with this in a non-judgmental, loving way,

possibly leading to change in greedy mentality to one of volunteering Develop a volunteer development curriculum Support discipleship of homeless population (thru mentoring, bible study, group work) Review Housing First models, develop strategies to implement & finalize models

presented in visions Validate land & housing development models (container housing, supportive services) Develop more volunteering opportunities within the community with existing faith-based

services organizations Develop effective street outreach (beyond weekly street ministry events) approaches,

homeless registry, connecting with services Locations to operate from Develop teams to take message of Interfaith Taskforce to denominational groups,

congregations, community orgs