{"id":2429,"date":"2020-07-24T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthiertogetherpbc.com\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2020-08-25T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:49:38","slug":"stewarding-shared-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthiertogetherpbc.org\/stewarding-shared-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewarding Shared Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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While the Glades is a rural economically challenged community, it is rich with proud and diverse people who have a passion for supporting their community and one another. Faith is especially strong here, with trusted pastors and strong formal and informal community leaders creating pathways for Healthier Glades to bring together the human, social and spiritual capital of its people. Veree Jenkins, CEO and founder of the Federation of Families of Florida<\/a> <\/span>and a member of Healthier Glades\u2019 steering committee, shares how the initiative opened the door for residents to share their voices and talents to launch a new faith-based program for helping their neighbors most in need.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Pastor of St. Matthews Missionary Baptist Church Reverend Willie Lawrence, Open Table Participants Marvin and Beverlee, Barbara Bataille and C. Veree Jenkins, CEO\/founder of the Federation of Families of Florida<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u201cI\u2019ll be honest. Even though the Federation was involved the first time Palm Health Foundation came to us with Healthier Glades, we were not as attached. There is very strong leadership in our community, which made it a challenge to implement a resident-driven initiative at first. Sometimes it\u2019s just not the right time. But when the foundation came back to give us another shot, it was<\/em> just the right time.<\/p>

Our organization had just completed Parents on a Mission, which is a parent advocacy curriculum created by two parents with the support of the University of South Florida\u2019s Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute<\/a><\/span><\/strong>. The 12-week course helps parents of children with mental health issues to have a more assertive voice and advocate for themselves and their children. The teens in the course also benefitted from learning how to speak with confidence. When the foundation started inviting residents to Healthier Glades meetings to determine what the initiative\u2019s \u00a0course would be, we offered it as a challenge to participants enrolled in the Parents on a Mission training. We said to them, \u2018This organization is interested in your voice as a resident.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t it be wonderful to see how powerful your voices are?\u2019\u00a0 It was a great idea at a great time to let people see how advocacy really works.<\/p>

People rose to the challenge. The conversation in the community meetings resonated with the individuals we were training because they had lived experience in the foundation\u2019s three health priorities\u2014behavioral health, family caregiving and diabetes. Some could relate to all three.\u00a0<\/p>

The community conversations became real for me when people started talking about their personal challenges. Our youth talked about being fearful and their problems in school. There had been a shooting around the time of one of the meetings.\u00a0 One of the youths shared that his brother had been shot at\u2014the bullets just missing him.\u00a0 That conversation led to one of the sheriffs talking about how she felt that she didn\u2019t have a way to help people.\u00a0 Her only option was to lock them up knowing that many just needed a chance and support.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Pastor of St. Matthews Missionary Baptist Church Reverend Willie Lawrence, Open Table Participants Marvin and Beverlee, Barbara Bataille and C. Veree Jenkins, CEO\/founder of the Federation of Families of Florida<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I could tell by the openness of the conversation that the people in the meeting saw that maybe they could have the opportunity to be change agents. And then a resident and leader in our faith community\u2014Pastor Willie Lawrence\u2014mentioned Open Table<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 I was dancing inside.<\/p>

Our organization had been introduced to Open Table through our work in Children\u2019s Mental Health System of Care<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0as a promising practice. It\u2019s a national faith-based model that brings together a \u2018table\u2019 of approximately ten individuals to invest their time, personal connections, and skills in the life of an individual or family on a weekly basis over the long term, becoming a team of advocates to move them out of poverty, permanently.\u00a0 We had begun exploring the idea within our System of Care Community Partners Group and I had the opportunity to send two peer leaders to a conference where Jon Katov, the founder of Open Table, and John Vandenberg, a consulting board member for the organization, were speaking about Open Table. One of the peer leaders was life-long resident, Pastor Lawrence, who raised Open Table as an option at the meeting.<\/p>

The enthusiasm and energy around the room for Open Table grew.\u00a0 To hear a resident raise the concept during the Healthier Glades meeting was the shift we were looking for. Everybody in the room began to say this makes sense.\u00a0 People got involved. From that point on, it turned out to be not just a Palm Health Foundation or Healthier Glades-driven project, but something the residents said they really wanted to do.\u00a0 That\u2019s what we all hoped would happen, and it happened.<\/p>

I became like staff to the residents.\u00a0 But that was OK.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I was supposed to be there.\u00a0 To give them the support where they needed it.\u00a0 That\u2019s the role of Healthier Together.\u00a0 Let the residents lead and provide the staff to support the process until they have the capacity to do it themselves.<\/p>

What resonated about Open Table is that it\u2019s a faith-based model.\u00a0 The Glades is steeped in faith. When you have the pastors buying into it, and the residents saying this is what we want, it clicked. And it was a model where people could speak for themselves and still have leadership in directing their own lives.\u00a0<\/p>

Open Table happened at just the right time.\u00a0 In that first meeting, a fire was lit.\u00a0 It was the right environment for the birth of Open Table.\u00a0 Palm Health Foundation came in with tools and structure to enhance what was already there, but maybe hadn\u2019t been identified or lifted to the surface yet.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Healthier Glades did.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Sustainable impact:<\/strong> Faith, government, business, nonprofit, healthcare and community leaders have embraced Open Table in the Glades, which was the first Open Table model launched in a rural, low income Florida community.\u00a0 Joe Kyles, Mayor of the City of South Bay, became the first U.S. mayor to sponsor an Open Table in his community to primarily address the plight of young black males and their families.\u00a0 Mayor Wilson, City of Belle Glade Mayor Wilson and City of Pahokee Mayor Babbs have joined as well.\u00a0 Thirteen youth have been helped by the tables to-date through the four churches that have joined the initiative.\u00a0 Recruitment for new table members is ongoing to meet the needs of the Glades residents in need of community support.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Stories of Impact Stewarding Shared Resources While the Glades is a rural economically challenged community, it is rich with proud and diverse people who have a passion for supporting their community and one another. Faith is especially strong here, with trusted pastors and strong formal and informal community leaders creating pathways for Healthier Glades to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthiertogetherpbc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthiertogetherpbc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthiertogetherpbc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthiertogetherpbc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthiertogetherpbc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/healthiertogetherpbc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3073,"href":"https:\/\/healthiertogetherpbc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthiertogetherpbc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthiertogetherpbc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthiertogetherpbc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}