We believe churches and faith communities can play an integral role in leading people toward holistic sufficiency and transitioning people out of social displacement. 

3e Partnering Churches participate in the journey toward holistic sufficiency with those living through social displacement in a few ways. Some partner financially through consistent giving–choosing to invest in a life through 3e Restoration, Inc. Other faith communities partner by receiving training in the 3e Curriculum, further equipping their congregation to serve their local communities in a holistic way.

Our staff utilizes our emergency shelter, Restoration Place, to help the neighbor/friend in need find stability as a coordinated system-of-care is established and tailored to their situation. This may include a 3e Partnering Church.

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Our Servant Leader Coordinators, commonly referred to as our SLCs, undergo a multi-day training utilizing our highly relational, evidence-based 3e Curriculum. SLCs are empowered with coaching tools and techniques that better enable them to cultivate a healthy relationship with their friend in need. 

Servant Leader Coordinators are people who embrace intentionality through organized and organic practices of gracious hospitality. SLCs have developed a way of life that reflects love, gracious hospitality, and relentless hope. These values are translated to their relationships with their friends in need.

Trained SLCs integrate and administer necessary life skills and teach Growth Symbols© in a highly relational way that lead friends and families in need toward the path of holistic sufficiency. Servant Leader Coordinators model and offer a new vision of life for those in need, oftentimes believing in the friend or family in need more than the friend or family believe in themselves.

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All-in friends are people who have the heart to walk alongside people living through homelessness to help transition them to holistic sufficiency– they just do not have the time to invest as consistently or as deeply as our Servant Leader Coordinators (SLCs). All-in friends are nevertheless essential to our 3e Restoration process and the relational framework within which we work.

These individuals generously lend rides when needed, teach our friends and families in need how to grocery shop, cook, clean, prepare resumes, fill out a job application, and exercise properly for their health. All-in friends may give advice on basic money budgeting and management, offer basic computer skills, and generally extend gracious hospitality to our friends and families in need. 

All-in friends provide a key piece in the relational community network of a friend in need, offering organic “wrap-around” support that is vital but often missing in traditional homelessness alleviation programs.

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Becoming a 3e Community of Hospitality is a great way to begin engaging neighbors/friends in need. It is less intensive and involved than a 3e Restoration Ministry Partnering Church.

3e will equip, encourage, and empower a faith community to become a trauma-informed community of hospitality. 3e Communities of Hospitality partner with neighbors who need a community of friendships to surround them and, when needed, serve as advocates as they navigate the referring agency’s case management process (i.e. social services, human services, etc). Many of these neighbors are already housed and moving forward. They just need a community of trauma-informed support–a community of hospitality.

3e Communities of Hospitality are equipped  by a three-hour (Tier 1) or four-hour (Tier 2) training that includes an introduction to personal and collective trauma, the social science of social displacement, self-care practices, and 4 of our 9 growth symbols (coaching tools).

Greater City at William & Mary was founded independently of 3e Restoration by two college students. They wanted to organize a community of students to offer nutritious meals to neighbors living through social displacement and become friends in the process. In 2017, 3e officially adopted Greater City as our collegiate branch. 

Greater City still delivers food to neighbors/friends in need along with cooking tools, utensils, recipes, and above all, friendship. They also advocate on the campus of William & Mary to inform college students about the realities of social displacement.

Our 3e Coaching Network provides organized wrap-around services which enable our neighbors and friends in need with the necessary life tools and vital resources to continue their journey toward holistic sufficiency. Our 3e Coaches provide those neighbors living through social displacement with the following resources:

• MENTAL HEALTH: licensed professional counselors provide counseling and therapy
• PERSONAL HYGIENE & DENTAL CARE: dentists provide evaluations and dental work; beauticians provide haircuts and hair styling
• PHYSICAL WELLNESS: occupational therapists, chiropractors, physical therapists, and nutrition experts provide holistic treatment for debilitating physical ailments
• JOB READINESS: business professionals specialize in job readiness and executive recruiting provide assistance with preparing a resume and training for job interviews
• LEGAL ASSISTANCE: attorneys provide specialized legal aid
• FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: financial counselors advise friends in need on the best financial management practices

This list is not exhaustive. We have 3e Coaches with the ability to offer auto repairs, interior designing expertise, speech therapy, and other services that could greatly benefit our friends in need. If you or your business have a heart for alleviating poverty in a holistic and relational way, please consider joining our 3e Coaching Network.

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3e partners with employers to establish a workforce development program to hire neighbors and friends in need for a select period of time based upon a Coordinated System of Care Plan (CSCP). The CSCP is personalized for each neighbor/friend in need to guide them through the employment experience.

It includes a weekly meeting between a fully trained and certified employment coach and the neighbor/employee to work through 3e’s curriculum and coaching tools and is overseen by a 3e staff member. 3e will serve as on-call assistance for the employer as challenges arise. Upon completion of the CSCP the neighbor/friend in need graduates with a certificate of completion and a proven track record of employment readiness.

The benefit for the employer is to contribute to the creation of a productive workforce in our city.  An additional benefit is the possibility of a great hire if the employer wants to make an offer to a neighbor/friend for a permanent role.

3e partners with employers to develop an Employment Assistance Program (EAP) to help increase the retention of employees. Similar to our Workforce Development Program, our Sustainability Program utilizes a Coordinated System of Care Plan personalized to each employee participating in the Employment Assistance Program.

Our 3e At Home Rapid Rehousing is a program that coordinates permanent housing for short-term (up to three months) and medium-term (4-24 months). It provides tenant-based rental assistance and supportive services to households experiencing homelessness. 3e at Home RRH Services is a privately funded program that meets the Virginia Homeless and Special-Needs Housing Program match requirements. 3e formally partners with James City County to seamlessly transition individuals and families to combine RRH rental assistance with 3e’s housing location and care management services. Depending upon housing availability, RRH may also serve as a bridge to PSH (long-term rental assistance for people with disabilities).

Our 3e Cornerstone Permanent Supportive Housing coordinates housing vouchers obtained through a number of partners, including James City County and York County as well as other PSH partner providers. 3e’s Cornerstone Program also includes individuals and families who are housing stable but require ongoing support services and/or prevention. All participants in this program are living with disabilities and/or seniors.

Restoration Place is a mass shelter and hotel/motel voucher “hybrid” model offering onsite intake & assessment for non-congregant hotel rooms. Shelter guests are offered housing stabilization services and resource coordination, including trained 3e Communities of Hospitality and/or 3e Restoration Ministries. 

This program serves as an Assessment Point within the region’s Coordinated Entry System as a pathway to permanent housing and homeless services.

We host colleges, universities, and faith communities from all across the nation for three to five-day poverty experiences. These are immersive learning experiences led by a friend who lives through homelessness. Each participant is given a case study from which they live for the week. The purpose of the experience is to awaken the mind and heart to catch a glimpse of the trauma-inducing complexity of social displacement, as well as to cultivate greater compassion. Our hope is that all who participate form a renewed imagination for how they will seek to be faithfully present to neighbors living through social displacement in their cities.

Here is a snapshot of the colleges, universities, and churches that have participated in a 3e Poverty Experience:

• Auburn University Christian Student Center
• Oklahoma State University Christian Student Center
• Williamsburg Christian Church Student Ministry

We train organizations and agencies, governmental and non-governmental, on any of the following four tracks:

• Trauma-Informed Practice
• Resilience, Empathy, and Compassion in a Culture of Collective Trauma
• Hospitality as Leadership
• Cultivating Communities Committed to Hospitality

Here is a snapshot of the organizations and agencies we have trained: Williamsburg Department of Human Services (Williamsburg, Virginia), James City County Department of Social Services (Williamsburg, Virginia), Bacon Street Youth & Family Services (Williamsburg, Virginia), Williamsburg Walk the Talk (Williamsburg, Virginia), Micah Ecumenical Ministries (Fredericksburg, Virginia), Freekind (Virginia Beach, Virginia), and more.