Pima County Faithbased

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Pima County Faith-Based Community Initiatives
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Pima County is in the Real West
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PIMA COUNTY Workforce Investment Board

• Faith-Based Community Initiatives
• U.S. Dept of Labor (DOL)
• Grant
• Presenters Marguerite Harmon Linda Leatherman

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Board of Supervisors Resolution 2003-224 dated
9/9/03

• Voted unanimously to support the White House
  Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in Pima
  County, Arizona

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Pima County Faith Based Community
InitiativesEstablished 9/9/2003

• Unanimous support of bipartisan Pima County Board
  of Supervisors, Resolution 2003-224
• Followed President Bushs Executive Orders 13198
  and 13199, January 29, 2001.
• 32 state governors established Faith-Based
  Community Offices
• Encouraged WIB to create Faith-based Subcommittee
  January 2004

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Pima Countys Broad Mandate

• Elected officials participate in FBCO events and
  activities that encourage community social
  service
• Government departments seek opportunities to work
  with Faith-Based Community Organizations
  (FBCOs)
• Pima County convenes meetings of diverse groups
• Small budget made available to support FBCO
  social service activities

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Neighborhood and Community Collaboration are KEY

• Convened meetings to bring diverse groups
  together
• In early 2003 began working with established
  partners both in the faith-based community and in
  community-based organizations
• Catholic Community Services
• Tucson Urban League
• Grace Temple Missionary Baptist Church
• St Johns
• Rising Star
• Gospel Rescue Mission
• And 23 other groups in the initial community
  meetings

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Active FBCOs Responded2004-2005

• HOPE FEST established event for homeless
  working poor needed larger and cheaper venue
• METH FREE Alliance encouraged groups to help
  with needs of addicted populations
• Feeding sites
• Providers of childrens services
• Shelters, senior programs, events and activities
• Created working environment of Trust Respect

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Trust, Collaboration, Respect

• Pima County faith-based
  community responded
• Wanted collaboration
• Appreciated opportunity

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Charitable Choice

• Levels playing field for faith-based providers of
  Social Services
• Encourages religious groups to contract with the
  government
• Retain authority over their mission
• Right to maintain religious atmosphere
• Right to hire using religious criteria (but not
  discriminate on race, age, gender, disability)

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Charitable Choice clarifies and defines
separation of Church and State to protect
rights of FB groups

• Federal monies to faith-based organizations can
  NOT be used to proselytize religion
• Religious activities and social service
  activities must be separated in time or by
  location
• People being served can NOT be required to
  participate in religious activities
• Everyone must be served per federal
  anti-discrimination guidelines
• Permitted to staff on a religious basis per Title
  VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• are for social services NOT religious
  purposes
• (NOT a problem in Pima County, Arizona)

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Religious groups may deliver federally-funded
social services

• Removes anti-faith barriers by not requiring 100
  secularism

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Pima County WIB awarded DOL grant 7/1/05

• Structure of DOL Grant
• Small FBCOs serving Target Populations (6 ees
  or gt350 k)
• Collaborate with ONE STOP
• Clients Eligible for WIA funding
• Defined Target Area
• Meet Measurable Outcomes of Grant

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Map of Tucson Arizona

• Area 1 Greatest area of need and focus of
  program
• Empowerment Zone
• Youth Opportunity Zone
• Formerly Model Cities

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Implementation of Grant

• Pima County WIB is volunteer Board which uses
  County staff to accomplish mission
• County staff agreed to manage grant
• Pima County Faith-based Community Initiatives
  Coordinator (created in 9/9/03) used community
  connections to encourage applications
• County staff created RFP and released
• 67 RFPs were picked up 14 were completed and
  submitted
• WIB RFP committee evaluated proposals and
  recommended funding

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9 TARGET Populations

• Ex-offenders
• People with limited English proficiency
• People moving from Welfare to Work
• Older Workers
• Homeless people
• Youth aging out of foster care
• High school Dropouts
• Pregnant or parenting teens
• People with disability including drug or alcohol
  addiction

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Measurable Grant Outcomes

• 225 individuals receive services
• 180 individuals placed in employment in Target
  Industries
• 135 employed will be retained for 6 months or
  longer

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Pima County WIB Awarded13 Sub-grants

• 10 to FBCOs to mentor and coach Target groups
  into employment 225,000
• 3 Intermediaries to help with grants writing,
  infrastructure, outreach, volunteer recruitment
  training 40,000

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BENEFITS

• Creates new pool of workforce participants
• Helps community to Collaborate, Advocate,
• Innovate Sum is greater than the parts
• Moves populations out of generational poverty
• Reduces cost
• WIA avg. cost per adult placement 4000
• FBCO avg. cost per adult placement 700

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Program Design

• ORIGINAL
• Staff
• 1) Program Manager
• 2) Admin. Assistant
• 3) PT finance support
• BUDGET
• 355,000 contractual

• MODIFIED
• Staff
• 1) Program Manager
• 2) 3 FT Case Workers
• 3) PT finance support
• BUDGET
• 265,000 contractual

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ONE STOP Logical Basis for building FBCO
partnership

• Many employment programs already in place
• Established employer relationships
• Established network of employment/resource
  providers
• Trained staff

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One Stops are aboutCOLLABORATION

• to develop policies and partnerships necessary
  for a comprehensive workforce system
• Partners
• Identifying service providers and vendors
• Resource sharing
• Reducing duplication

The One Stop Service Philosophy
Universal services Emphasis on job
placement Customer choice Prioritize costs
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Scope of WORK

• JOBS (30 days or more)
• 22
• 16
• 10
• 35
• 57
• 30
• 13
• 46
• 30 _______________
• Total 259 jobs contracted

• Sub-Contractor
• Emmanuel Grace Men
• Grace Temple
• Hope of Glory
• New Life
• Giving Tree
• Living Water
• Rising Star
• SOBER Project
• Heaven Bound

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CHALLENGESMelding of 2 cultures

• Government
• 1. Language/legal or formal
• 2. Detail/paper oriented
• 3. World view
• a) Watch dog
• b) Short term
• 4. Impartial/Dispassionate
• 5. Uncharted territory how best work together

• Faith-based Comm. Org.
• 1. Language/Bible or street
• 2. Result/people oriented
• 3. World view
• a) Caretaker
• b) Long term
• Passionate
• Uncharted territory how best work together

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Additional Challenges

• Outreach
• Needed Public Relations development
• Targeted specific skill development mentoring
  (employment)
• Required interactive relationship
• Time Limits
• ID papers take time
• Not enough time for career training
• Glitches a beyond everyones control
• 1) Pima County changed finance program
• 2) DOL delayed start 7 months
• Changing Job Market
• Construction slowing
• Health care restricting
• Lack of sophisticated accounting/tracking systems
  of small FBCOs
• Too many FBCOs on contract (10)

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Comparative Outcomes

• REQUIRED
• 225 served
• 180 placed in employment
• 135 retained 6 months

• ACCOMPLISHED
• 1062 served
• 297 placed
• 166 retained

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ACTUAL production

• 210 unduplicated, small
• employers participated
• 64 of contracted stayed on job 6 months or more
• 2,000,000 earned dollars
• Many unanticipated Social Service Economic
  Benefits to Community

• Jobs 297 placed
• 3 Contractors exceeded contract
• 3 met contract
• 2 did not meet contract
• 1 had to subcontract
• 1 dropped out

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LOCAL Replication

• Encourage elected officials to support
• Limit number of FBCOs
• Allocate trained ONE STOP WIA staff to implement
• Identify small pot of money to encourage
  participation
• Release monies through RFP process
• Train, Train, Train FBCO staff

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Any WIB Can Replicate

• Encourage elected officials to support social
  service programs of FBCOs
• Establish outreach through FBCOs
• Assist FBCOs to integrate programs with ONE STOP

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Benefits of Collaboration

• Faith-based Community Organizations provide
  space and utilities for implementing social
  service programs
• Volunteers
• Constituencies
• Defined leadership groups
• Longevity of the institution
• Respectful of education and organization
• Resources (skills, energy, money, caring)

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Why work with FBCOs ??WHY REPLICATE ??

• New source of employees
• Expanded resources
• Broadens community impact
• Dollars for government programs are shrinking

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Federal Job Training Funding History
Overall change 1984-2005 -2,172,602,000 Real
change w/ inflation _at_ 2 per year
-3,512,557,000
Appropriation (in 000s)
Year
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Pima Countys One Stop System
Employers
Faith-based and Community-based organizations
Mandated One Stop Partners
Contracted Service Providers
Satellite Centers Jackson Employment Center, Las
Artes, Kino Teen Center, Pima Vocational High
School, Fort Lowell DES
Two Locations Kino Rio Nuevo
Training vendors
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The One Stop Customer

• JOB SEEKER
• Unemployed
• Underemployed
• Incumbent workers
• Laid-off workers
• Persons entering the workforce

• EMPLOYER
• Bringing/creating jobs
• Changing jobs
• Retaining jobs
• Reductions in force

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Three Service Levels
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• Training Services
• Customer choice Individual Training Accounts
• Exceptions
• On-the-job training
• Customized training

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• Intensive Services
• Specialized
• Staff-intensive
• Long-term
• Eligibility criteria apply when funds are limited

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• Core Services
• Available to anyone
• Walk-in
• Short-term
• Self-service or
• Non-staff-intensive

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12 Others Link to the One Stop

• WIA 166 Native American Program
• Migrant Seasonal Farm Worker Program
• Veterans Employment Programs
• Job Corps
• Wagner-Peyser Act Job Service

• Title V Older Americans
• Trade Adjustment Asst.
• Unemployment Insurance
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• HUD Employment and Training
• Community Services Block Grant
• Adult Ed. and Literacy
• Carl Perkins Post- Secondary Voc. Ed.

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Strengths of FBCO Initiativeor What Pima County
did Right!

• County as Intermediary/Trainer/Support
• Fee for Service Contract
• 1. Reduces paperwork
• 2. Frees use of earned monies
• Assigned trained One Stop staff to coach train
  FBCOs
• On-going, regular meetings for training
• and networking convened by County

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Many Community BenefitsNew, unexpected, no cost
to government!!

• Instant FBCO Network for WIB
• Expanded Referral network for Pima County
  programs and with WIB
• Expanded community focus on job search as a skill
  and employment as economic development
• More social services

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Personal Success Stories

• SOBER Project
• The Giving Tree
• Hope of Glory
• Living Waters
• Grace Temple

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Recognition of Success

• Pima County Metropolitan Alliance-Common Ground
  Award
• Economic Development Through Partnership and
  Collaboration
• Government, Private Business and the Faith
  Community

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Workforce Partners

• Government
• Business
• Faith Groups
• The Power of the ENTIRE Community

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LINKING of Diverse GroupsDeveloped Strong Sense
of Community Support
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SOBER Project

• and visibility grew SOBER Project
• 2005 1 (AA type) 12 step program
• 2007 19 12 step SOBER
  Projects
• (16 in FBCOs, 3 in agencies
• across 3 statesAZ, MT, CA)
• Recognition at White House Conference

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The Giving Tree

• 3 additional residences
• Plans for 28,000 sq ft center
• Improved facilities
• 1. Added bathrooms
• 2. Improved commercial kitchen
• 3. Opened thrift store
• Expanded Summer School Feeding
• Received 60,000 DOL grant
• Recognized at White House Conference

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Other community assets

• TIARC received 60,000 DOL grant
• TIARC joined Partners Network
• 2 new 501c3s doing employment/social services
• Expanded ministries/programs
• in health HIV Aids childrens support
  services hot meals mentoring and long term
  support of housing, anti-addiction, ex-offender
  programs, Emergency Preparedness thru Office of
  Emergency Management

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