A visual narrative summarizing out time together as well as our decided next steps.

1. School of Social Work Faith-Based Community Collaborative Visual Notes

2. Welcome
Members 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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Meeting Adjourned