Creating Neighborhoods of Hope - SVDP USA of Hope 5_19 Webinar.pdf · Gilbert on Systemic Change 4. Think of the poorest neighborhood in your area. What would it look like if poverty

CreatingNeighborhoods of Hope

Systemic Change for Councils, Districts, & Isolated Conferences

Hope in Action,

Ending Poverty Through Systemic Change

A Special Work of The Society of St. Vincent de Paul

© 2016, National Council of the United States Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Inc. This copyright covers all materials in this presentation except where otherwise noted.

We praise and thank you, O God, Creator of the Universe. You have made all things good and have given us the earth to cultivate. Grant that we may always use created things gratefully, and share them generously with those in need. Give us creativity in helping the poor meet their basic human needs. Open our minds and hearts so that we might stand at their side and assist them to change whatever unjust structures keep them poor. Enable us to be brothers and sisters to them, friends who walk with them in their struggle for fundamental human rights. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

(from the Letter of Superior General on theme of annual Vincentian Day of Prayer 2008)

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Prayer for Systemic Change

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Better Understanding of the SVDP Approach to Ending Poverty in our Communities

Specific Strategy For Collaboration

Opportunity to Begin Planning for Implementing in your Council/District


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Today’s Outcomes


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SVdP National President Sheila Gilbert on Systemic Change

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Think of the poorest neighborhood in your area.

What would it look like if poverty were reduced by 50%?


Exercise


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What Does a Community Look Like With Our Vision in Place

A community where those in need have a chance for a• Well Paying Job• Good Education• Good Health Care• Fair Credit

It Is a Community With a Tax Base to Maintain:• High Quality Services• Infrastructure• Future Community Development

Social Capital that Brings People Together Across Class and Racial Lines To Solve Problems



St. Vincent de Paul wrote that

“The poor suffer less from a lack of generosity than from a lack of organization.”



Systemic Change

Goes beyond immediate needs

Partners with the poor

Transforms attitudes

Changes structures

Systemic Change principles are found throughout our Rule

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“Come now, let us engage

ourselves with renewed love

to serve the poor, and let us

even seek out the poorest

and most abandoned of all.”

St. Vincent de Paul

“Let us go to the Poor”Frederick Ozanam



Possible Mission/Goal:Reduce Poverty in a

neighborhood or community by 5% over a 3 year period as measured by the US Census

American Community Survey

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Enhanced Service Model

Better Collaboration

Align Efforts with Outcome

Engage Neighbors in the Planning



How We Will Accomplish That Goal?


Better CollaborationAlign Efforts with Outcome





Deeper Home Visit

Mentor Training (Getting Ahead & Donna Beegle)

Poverty Training for Conferences




Sample of New Home Visitor Questions

Do you have a relationship with a financial institution? How is your job going? Aside from the reason you called us, are you usually

able to pay all your bills each month? Is your housing within your budget? How are your kids doing in school? Do you help them with their homework? If not, do you

have a resource to call on for homework help? Who did your taxes last year (know VITA sites in your

area) What are your dreams and what is keeping you from

reaching them?Hope in Action, Ending Poverty Through Systemic



Empower people to move out of poverty through:

Supportive relationships

Social & professional connections ( “Bridging Capital”)

Education & skill development

Spiritual growth

Community engagement

Mentoring Objectives



Council/District Support to Conferences

Poverty Simulations

Resource Development

Training Bridges out of Poverty Getting Ahead Communication Across Barriers



Conference Training

Educate Members To: Fully Understand the Vision Expectations for Conferences Value of Systemic Change

Identify & Train Members Who: Embrace Systemic Change Will Serve as Mentors Will Serve in the Neighborhood Will Advocate



Tools for initial formation & change mgt

• Systemic Change Overview

• Bridges Individual Lens DVDs or Poverty 101

• Ozanam Orientation: Parts VII & VIII

• Poverty Simulation

• Sheila Gilbert’s “Systemic Change” DVD




Better CollaborationAlign Efforts with Outcome





True Collaboration with Business & Community Organizations

Establish Steering Committee

Find Quick Wins




St. Vincent de Paul’s Collaboration Approach

"St. Vincent brought together as many people as hecould, rich and poor, humble and powerful, and usedevery means to inspire in them sensitivity to the poor,who are the privileged image of Christ."



3-C Continuum

Cooperation

Coordination

Collaboration

Progressively more intense types of working relationships



4 Essential Keys to Collaboration

Clarify the Purpose

Involve the Right People

Develop Conflict Resolution

Get It in Writing

Skills

Key #1

Key #2

Key #3

Key #4



Community Enhancement

Project Steering Committee

Residents

Law Enforcement

Chamber of Commerce

Local Employers

Faith Leaders & Nonprofits

Education


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Organize A Steering Committee For Your Community

Establish a clear vision to move the needle on poverty in your target geographic area

“Who should be invited to the table?”

Focus on organizations that deal with getting adults self sufficient:

Housing

Employers

Literacy

Training and education

© aha! Process, Inc.



The Steering Committee Functions

Utilize the strengths of all members and sectors to achieve goals of group

Build a sophisticated service delivery system

Develop a community

engagement approach



What is a quick win?

– A strategy in which you expect implementation and outcomes in next

3-6 months

– Requires a limited amount of resources (e.g., money, time, people)

– Results will be outputs and outcomes, not a major change in the

initiative’s population level goal

– Results may be among a target population and/or target geography

How does a quick win fit in with longer term strategies?

– A quick win should align with at least one of the broader strategies

laid forth by the working group

– It may be drawn directly from the plan, or aligned with the larger

strategy areas

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Quick wins are key to sustaining momentum


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Align Efforts with OutcomeEngage Neighbors in the

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Logic Model

Poverty “Tipping Points”

Neighborhoods of Hope Framework

Data Sources

Collective Impact Model




Logic Model Is A Tool To Align Effort with Outcome

Input Activities Output Outcomes Impact



Logic Model Benefits

• Provides a common language

• Helps us differentiate between “what we do” and “results” --- outcomes

• Increases understanding about program

• Guides and helps focus work

• Leads to improved planning and management

• Increases intentionality and purpose

• Provides coherence across complex tasks, diverse environments



Birth Weight

Preschool Prep

3rd Grade Reading Level

High School Grad Rate

Adult Employment


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Proactive Home Visits &

Outreach

Identify Employable

Adults

Job Skills Training

Mentoring & Better

Relations with local

employers

Help 338 Adults get

Quality Jobs


Adult Unemployment

Reduce Unemploy-ment by 5%


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Data Source


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What Vincentians are doing


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Collective Impact

Work Together to Move Outcomes

Improve

Is What You Do

Advocate for What Works

Collaboration

Convene around Programs/Initiatives

Prove

Addition to

What You Do

Advocate for Ideas



Convene, coordinate, communicate, collaborate

Guide vision and strategy

Support aligned activities

Establish shared measurement practices

Build public will

Advance policy

Mobilize funding

Vincentian Backbone Organization Responsibilities



Backbone Leader: Vincentian thatprovides leadership and management toensure that the mission and core valuesof the effort are put into practice

Facilitator/Trainer: Conducts all trainingfor the effort. Facilitates each meeting


Initial Backbone Roles


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Select Neighborhood

High Poverty

Vincentian Presence

Prospective NGO Collaborators

ID Conferences for Training & Support

Neighborhood Home Visitors

Mentors/Navigators

Determine Timeline & Team for Conference Training



1st Backbone Meetings

Steering Committee

SVDP

Home Visit



How Does it Work Together?








If you are not at the table, then you are on the menu.

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Systemic Change based on belief that a community can develop solutions to many of its challenges

Steering Committee-people, institutions, knowledge, political and economic power can help community grow

Work with community leaders, social groups, and NGO’s to identify people to include on Steering Committee

(http://ctb.ku.edu/en)



Enlisting Neighborhood Engagement

Can we eliminate poverty?

Alone we can’t

but

Together we might



• Train the Trainer• Leadership & Facilitators attend 2 Day Workshop to

learn approach, skills, and delivery techniques

• Series of tailored workshops, delivered over time,in half to one day modules • All interested Vincentians & Community Partners• Mentors & Facilitators • Community Advocates

Decide on Delivery Options



1-3 Months

Convene Vincentian Backbone Team

Train Leaders & Facilitator

Overview to Conferences

2-4 Months

Convene Steering Committee

Poverty 101 for Everyone

Home Visitors Nominating Families/Needs w/ Mentors/Navigators

3-6 Months

Steering Committee Refines Timeline & Leading Indicator Targets

Inventory Existing/Needed Programs/Services

Begin Matching Families w/ Services

Possible Implementation Timeline





SVdP Resources

St Vincent de Paul Systemic Change web portal

http://new.svdpusa.org/systemicchange

Communities of Practice a Networking Site for all Vincentians

http://svdpspecialworks.net/

Hope in Action…ending poverty through systemic changeHope in Action, Ending Poverty Through Systemic



Hope in Action Workshops


Individual Lens

Poverty 101

Poverty Simulation

Conference Lens

A new vision for the Home Visit

Mentoring

“Getting Ahead in Just

Gettin By World”

Council Lens-Neighborhoods of Hope

Organizing for Impact

Leading Change

Organizing a Backbone Committee

Organizing a Steering Committee

Principles of Collaboration

Principles of Advocacy

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Bridges Out of

Poverty

Aha Process

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Communication Across Barriers

END POVERTY

THROUGH

“Hope in Action”

OUR VISION

…. One Person

One Neighborhood

One Community at a time

Hope in Action...Ending poverty through systemic change





Should You Implement This Framework?

“I want to invite the Church to pray and work so that

every Christian will have a humble and compassionate

heart, one capable of proclaiming and witnessing to

mercy. It is my hope that all of us will learn to “forgive

and give”, to become more open “to those living on the

outermost fringes of society - fringes which modern

society itself creates”, and to refuse to fall into “a

humiliating indifference or a monotonous routine which

prevents us from discovering what is new! Let us ward

off destructive cynicism!”POPE FRANCIS

WORLD DAY OF PEACE

1 JANUARY 2016

Closing Prayer



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