School of Social Work Faith-Based Community Collaborative Visual Notes

WelcomeMembers in Attendance:

• Antonia Clemente – Healing Center

• Blanche Centeno-Hatwood – Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies

• Mayra Lopez-Humphreys – Nyack College

• Ruben Austria – Community Connections for Youth

• Chris Troy – City Serve• Janet Furness – Nyack

College • Joel Gibson – Federation of

Protestant Welfare Agencies

Projects List• We distilled the list of ideas into three projects that the group is interested in: Internships,

Student Centered Projects and Professional Development.• We have many precedents with faith-based organizations working to train our students as

student-centered program. Our goal is to have students placed into the programs by June.• We also have a professional development group that is student run and planned. The goal is for

April 2016.• The aim is to have a synergistic interaction between the organizations and students.• Furthermore we must make sure that these projects are meaningful and produce results.• For the time being we’ve decided on Student Centered Programs and Professional Development

as our focal projects.

Professional Development Project Team

• Lead: Ruben• Asst. Lead: Chris• Support: Kwi• Goal: To showcase

the work of students and place a spotlight on particular groups or communities

Student Centered Project Team

• Lead: Blanche• Asst. Lead: Antonia• Support: Mayra, Joel• Goal: Develop on-going

practices that focus on integrating one’s faith into the work, while defining the “Faith-Based” approach.

Next Steps

Our next meeting is set for Thursday, November 5th from 10:00am to 12:00pm.

One hour of our time will be spent discussing logistics, the other hour will have us break into smaller groups again.

Meeting Adjourned