The Faith Government Partnership

Through Open Table

Extending and Sustaining Systems of Care

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Open Table is a 501c3 nonprofit training organization that licenses its poverty transformation model to faith communities and trains them to implement the model.

Faith and Government

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A Faith-Government Poverty Transformation Movement

A Co-investment model that ends the fragmented and splintered transactional investments that do not transform poverty. Open Table partners the funding, expertise and best practices of government with the intellectual and social capital of faith communities to extend and sustain the system of care from poverty-through systems-to community.

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From Transaction... ...To Transformation

Government

programs expire.

Formal services are time-limited and often there is not a bridge to natural community supports.

Faith communities are a natural bridge home.

Government and faith communities do not have an integration model.

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A new idea.

• Imagine faith communities as a bridge from formal systems to a system of never expiring natural supports

• Faith communities co-investing with government in the transition and transformation of people

Working together, faith communities and

government are already making this idea real…

Open Table Unites Sectors Around the Shared Purpose of Poverty Transformation

Faith Communities

Government

Business

Universities

Community Agencies

All are welcome at the Table.

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National Faith-Government Conferences

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has invited Open Table to co-develop with SAMHSA three 2017 national training conferences through Open Table:

3 National Faith-Government Conferences:

o Implementing Open Table to transform civil unrest

o Implementing Open Table to reduce recidivism

o Implementing Open Table to end homelessness © The Open Table, 2016

Faith-Government Partnerships Through

Open Table Expanding Nationally

Federal: SAMHSA

State and County

Florida

Michigan

Missouri

New York

Pennsylvania

Texas

Virginia

Mayor Teresa Jacobs, Orange County, FL

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The Open Table Model

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Open Table Theory of

Change

Open Table is about a faith community being in direct relationship with those in poverty. The relationships between Table members and the Sister and/or Brother is at the heart of the effectiveness of the model, and the ability of the Sister and/or Brother to establish long lasting relationships with their Table and with other members of the community is crucial to success.

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The Open Table Theory

of Change WORKS

Ask Courtney.

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Update 2: Open Table is becoming an

Evidence Based Model

Outcomes for the Open Table Model, 2015, Dr. John VanDenBerg, Ph.D.

95% of graduated Sisters and Brothers have long term relationships with at least one or more of my former Table members (after two years)

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Outcomes: the Faith Community and

and an evidence based model

VanDenBerg, 2016, continued:

85%: better job and/or in a college or technical school

85%: have skills needed to get through problems and crises better than before

95%: currently self-supporting or confident that they will be self-supporting in the future.

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Update 2: Open Table is Becoming an

Evidence Based Model

A Descriptive and Exploratory Study of Key Elements of the Open Table Model for Poverty Intervention, 2016, Dr. Michael Marks, Ph.D

“The primacy of relationship building, the cornerstone of Open Table’s theory of change, was confirmed by study findings.”

“Relationships between Brothers/Sisters and Table members were identified as important and intensive, with many Brothers/Sisters and Table members using descriptors such as “family” and “friends”, some noting “lifelong” in describing relationships.”

The Open Table Model

Similar to“Wraparound” concept. John VanDenBerg is an advisor to the Open Table board.

Developed independently, but rests on Wraparound learning and evidence.

Partner agencies refer candidates to Tables.

Faith-government partnership provides long-term natural supports for people transitioning out of formal systems.

Focus on real, enduring change in people’s lives.

Congregation members make a year-long

commitment: 52 one- hour meetings, social interaction

and an after-plan for long-term relationships and

support

Theory of Change

Relationship

Shared Purpose

A Safe Place

Transformation not Transaction

Local Determination and

Ownership

Accessing Congregation Resources

Wealth of intellectual and social

capital and community

connections for goods and

services

Estimate - 100 adult members:

200+ years of higher education

2000+ years of job skills and

experience

3000+ community connections

Harvesting Faith CommunityNetworks: Renewable Resources

Accounting/Taxes

Auto Mechanic

Behavioral Health

Career Mentoring

Child Care

Dentistry/Medicine

Education Advice

Housing/Furniture

Jobs

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Tables successfully connect to resources like these:

Update 3: The Open Table Model

Transforms Community Members

“She had been through more suffering than I could ever imagine. . . She lived out of a dumpster, prostituted, worked the whole time and saved money. She is now my friend because of our relationship on her Table. She calls me to pray, I call her to share things that happen in my life. She tells me, “You need to have patience.” I believe her because she has lived that truth. She is amazing and strong and I am blessed to call her friend. Only relationship could affect this kind of change in both of us.”

Table Volunteer, Arizona

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Hear from a Table. Watch video here.

Infrastructure and Technical

Support

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Update 5: A Training Infrastructure Powers Best Practices and Expansion

Mission Leader/Mission Recruiter Training

Manualized

Readiness assessment and training

Online, state of the art, learning management system guides launch process

Navigator Team supports launch of each new congregation

Online Portal resource center for Open Table congregations

Open Table University (OTU) Online Table Member training with Resource Guides

Online group communication platform for each Table

Fidelity tools and licensing support the Open Table Model’s best practices

Skin in the game transoforms participants into owners

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A Experts Power Best Practices and

Expansion

Experts in the Open Table Movement

Cultural Competency – Latino Culture

Digital Marketing

Human Services

Mental Health

Recidivism

Research and Evaluation

Substance Abuse

Training Development and Technology

Trauma

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SAMHSA’s National Training and

Technical Assistance Center for Child,

Youth, and Family Mental Health

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Organic Growth Creates Sustainable Movements

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21 States

500+ Tables

3000+ Table Members

Homeless

Working Poor

Transitioning Young

Adults

Racial and Religious

Reconciliation

Veterans

Re-Entry

Open Table is a Training

Organization

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Update 7: Local Determination Creates

Movement Sustainability

Local determination and ownership.

...how the community of business, non-profits, government and faith sectors form into a local movement, plan expansion, focus on populations, and how the effort and scope proceeds are all locally determined and managed as part of a community vision of their system of care under a shared purpose.

Faith communities are the implementers of Open Table at the sister/brother level and make final determinations at the model level.

Open Table Theory of Change

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