About the IFC in 1963, a Group of Seven Local Women United Their Volunteer Efforts to Address the Conditions of Poverty in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
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INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE Spring 2017 | Volume 38, Number 1 About the IFC In 1963, a group of seven local women united their volunteer efforts to address the conditions of poverty in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The Inter-Faith Council was created “to discover unmet needs and to respond through the FoodFirst coordinated efforts of volunteers.” Permit No. 36 No. Permit U.S. Postage Paid Postage U.S. Carrboro, NC 27510 Carrboro, Nonprofit Organization Nonprofit Jim Spencer Architects, PA Inter-Faith Council Inter-Faith Social Service for #D Main Street, 110 W. NC 27510 Carrboro, Inter-Faith Council for Social Service Board of Directors Keith Taylor, President • Kathleen Herr, Vice President • Joseph Liegl, Treasurer • Melba Ribeiro-Doll, Secretary Bernadine Cobb • Evelyn Craig • Molly De Marco • Richard Edens • Matthew Fajack • Ann Henley • Mae McLendon • Jennifer Player • Amy Rix • Will Rose • Anthony Sharp • Bettina Shuford • Sharon Van Horn Honorary Life Board Member, Robert Seymour INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOODFIRST: Carrboro Community Health Center PROGRAMS AND Community Kitchen fills prescriptions written by clinic 100 W. Rosemary Street, providers. The clinic operates on IFC Staff Roster SERVICES Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 p.m. to Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Co-Director: John Dorward Phone: 919-967-0643 9 p.m. and is staffed by PHS employees. Co-Director & Community There are three exam rooms and two IFC @ SECU Community The Community Kitchen serves two Services Director: Kristin Lavergne dental chairs in the medical clinic. Lab House: Housing for hot meals a day, Monday-Friday Finance & Operations Director: Homeless Men and serves one mid-day meal on work and immunizations are provided. Jeff Causey 1315 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd weekends, free of charge for anyone Psychologists conduct mental health Residential Services Director: Chapel Hill, NC 27514 who is hungry. It provides about 40,000 assessments. Stephani Kilpatrick Phone: 919-967-1086 meals to hungry persons every year. Executive Assistant: SUPPORT CIRCLES: Open IFC @ SECU Community House is Nearly all of the food is donated, and Phone: 919-929-6380 ext.16 a community of residents, staff, and volunteers/volunteer groups prepare Project Manager: Support Circles provide support Allan Rosen volunteers working cooperatively. The and serve meals, clean up afterward, to individuals and families who Support Circles Coordinator: Community House is a three-stage and help pick up, receive, sort, and are experiencing — or at risk of — Shannon Gigliotti housing program designed to assist store food. homelessness and who are transitioning Client Services Representatives: homeless men transitioning from FOODFIRST: into permanent housing. In 2012 the Valeria Hernandez, homelessness to living independently Support Circles program began as a Gricelidy Marrero Food Pantry in the community. Community House completely volunteer-led program Community Kitchen Coordinator: 110 W. Main Street offers medical, dental, and mental with two support circles. Currently five Bill Culton Carrboro, NC 27510 health treatment; social worker support circles can be sustained at any Community House Kitchen Phone: 919-929-6380 support; job coaching; and referrals given time throughout the year. IFC is Coordinator: Sean O’Hare The Food Pantry provides around to community agencies; as well as happy to report that the families who Social Workers: Megan Raymond, 1,100 bags of groceries to those in need Rex Mercer, Gwynne Pomeroy referrals for substance abuse education have completed the Support Circles every month. Households in Chapel Permanent Supportive Housing and counseling. The new Community program since 2012 are all still housed. Hill or Carrboro, or adults who work Case Manager: Debra Vestal House serves breakfast and dinner for From moving to transportation, goal in those communities, may become Facilities Coordinators: residents. Volunteers currently work setting to problem solving, volunteer members of the Pantry and receive Wesley Norwood, Sylvester Bethea as job coaches, social workers who Support Circle teams provide material, groceries once a month. Bookkeeper: Tara Stephenson provide case management, in data practical, financial, and relational support. Volunteers act as receptionists and give Kitchen Staff: Robert Barnes, James entry, as administrative assistants, as Dunn, Brian Neader out, pick up, unload, and organize food receptionists, and for Orange Literacy Residential Staff: Bernestine Austin, as well as stock shelves. IFC Fiscal Years 2012-2016 doing literacy tutoring and writing Jo Coe, Shanesha Farrington, Charlotte • Bags of Food Distributed: 80,573 Horton, Chris Horton, Anna Kenion, workshops. CRISIS INTERVENTION: • Meals Served: 329, 890 Rhonda Lee, Robert Meeks, Kevin Homelessness Prevention and • Holiday Meals: 4,348 Noonan, Raney Norwood, Abigail HOMESTART: Meeting Basic Needs Owens, Kris Quick, LaBrone Wade, • Bed Nights for Men: 83, 879 Residential Facility for Homeless 110 W. Main Street Algin Wiley, Cherisa Zafft • Bed Nights for Women and Women and Children Carrboro, NC 27510 Children: 66,043 Phone: 919-932-6025 Phone: 919-929-6380 • Distributed by Crisis Unit: HomeStart provides 24-hour The Crisis Intervention program exists $780,672 emergency and longer-term housing to help people stay in their homes. It • Volunteer Hours: 205,235 Published by the Inter-Faith Council and services to homeless women and serves anyone who lives or works in The UNC Hospital sponsored Robert for Social Service children. HomeStart’s mission is to Chapel Hill or Carrboro and who is A United Way Agency Nixon Clinic transitioned facing economic uncertainty, illness, or provide “a safe, structured home for over to our partner 110 W. Main Street • Carrboro, NC 27510 hardship by providing food, clothing, homeless women and children, helping Piedmont Health Services in 2015. Phone: (919) 929-6380 Fax: (919) 929-3353 them to access community resources rent, utility assistance, transportation, Email: [email protected] and offering everyone ongoing support information, and referrals. July 2016- January 2017 Web: ifcweb.org; ifcfoodfirst.org to break the cycle of poverty and • Medical visits: 364 Editor/Designer: Lucie Branham ROBERT NIXON CLINIC • Mental health visits: 102 homelessness.” (Services Provided by Piedmont Contributing Writers: • Dental visits: 145 Irene Briggaman, Brenda Camp, John Volunteers at HomeStart perform: Health Services, Sponsored by UNC • Prescriptions written and Dorward, Shannon Gigliotti, Tom Hallman, maintenance; act as receptionists; Health Care): dispensed: 1,047 Matt Holway, Stephani Kilpatrick, Kristin provide clerical assistance; process IFC @ SECU Community House Lavergne, Lucie Branham belongings; stock bedrooms; receive, 1315 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. July 2016- January 2017 Cover Illustration: process, organize, and store donations; Chapel Hill, NC 27514 • 15 men moved from IFC @ Jim Spencer Architects, PA SECU Community House to purchase and prepare meals; are With the opening of the new IFC @ Printing: Triangle Web Printing permanent housing. kitchen assistants; evening floaters; SECU Community House, Piedmont Visit us on Facebook, Twitter, & the web! part of recreation groups; work in the • 11 women with children and Health Services is providing medical, 2 single women moved from garden; lead writing workshops as part dental services and mental health HomeStart to permanent of Orange Literacy . assessments at no cost to residents housing. of both shelters. The pharmacy at 2 In Love and Community - Welcome Home Jackie self-sufficiency, and self-esteem – the Community Arts Program is the only free fine arts studio and gallery space for artists and neighborhood residents whose socioeconomic struggles would otherwise prevent them from being a part of the rich artistic and cultural ecosystem of our City; Community Building Program that provides a way for residents to learn about policies and laws being proposed that are of concern and to be a part of the civic and political process by engaging with policymakers; their Employment Program, which helps connect individuals to gainful employment that is critical to stabilizing their lives; their on-site Shelter Program, which was the City’s first overnight shelter, born in 1982, when the country sustained severe cuts to the federal housing program, which continues to provide intensive case managed shelter stays for veterans, immigrants and refugees, people with mental health issues, seniors, and ex-offenders. Last but not least, the drop-in centers of Hospitality House – these centers are its heart. Almost 20,000 people, many people deeply scarred from trauma and many San Francisco Board Supervisor Jane Kim and Jackie of them homeless, visited in one year alone, to use the free phones, bathrooms, and 54 years ago a group of seven local women created the Inter-Faith Council as a the lounge to just be themselves, rest their feet, and talk with people, staff hired from way to help “address the conditions of poverty” in this community. In 2017 a woman the neighborhood, who, like Jackie, are not there to force people into programs or to steps up to lead the Inter-Faith Council into its future. It is with delight that the IFC judge what may be an individual’s lowest moment – but instead, are there to listen & welcomes Jackie Jenks as our new Executive Director. relate with their own ups and downs. Jackie was chosen as IFC’s Executive Director from a field of 72 candidates after a ...As her good friend and