Program Design and Implementation
“People are not problems to solve, projects to fix, or prospects to save, but instead, they are persons to be embraced.”
– Fred Liggin, Founder and Executive Director of Faith Community Development & Training
When hospitality links with asset-based collaboration practices, a movement of community development empowered by everyday people can work to solve local problems and address injustices for the common good. We believe that alleviating impact of trauma and reality of social displacement is a community-based effort that requires strong commitment and risky actions. We believe that the most creative long-term solutions to the problem of social displacement come from grassroots faith-based movements willing to collaborate with other nonprofits, social services agencies, and education institutions.
The 3e approach is to offer strategy and sustainability consulting for trauma-responsive program design and implementation for the workplace, non-profit sector, government sector, and faith-based communities, and follow up with thorough providing accredited education and training.
When we began we had to figure everything out on our own. After 12 years of facilitating our own direct-service programs and developing several asset-based community development collaborations, we want to offer nonprofits what we did not receive: guidance. Today, we offer a comprehensive menu of services to guide nonprofit organizations in developing their operational and programmatic policies, processes, and procedures. We can assist in the following areas
- Developing Funding Strategies & Grant Readiness
- Program Clarification & Logic Models
- Board Development & Governance
- Data Evaluation & Assessments (quantitive and qualitative)
- Advocacy & Community Development Strategies
The Be The Change initiative will provide a minimum of two-weeks emergency shelter and access to on-site stabilization services at the Pineapple Inn and Housing Center until housed or referred to other collaborative service providers coordinated and assessed by 3e. On-site stabilization services include access to a food pantry, kitchen and utensils, laundry services, clothing closet, computer access, and life skills development classes specific to financial literacy, career development, and mental health awareness. This project will partner with other non-profit organizations, agencies, and churches to combine resources to offer safe shelter, collaborate wrap-around services and other coordinated systems of care, such as mental health, resiliency, education services, substance use disorder, financial management, food insecurity, career development, and aging and disability services.
Josh’s Gift of Grace is a memorial fund and initiative created and named after our dear friend and William & Mary graduate Josh Owusu. This initiative provides temporary/emergency stabilization shelter to those in the community who need it while they are assessed for permanent housing.
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-responsive 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).
We believe Housing First is the only trauma-responsive approach to housing as it addresses the most life-threatening circumstance: stable shelter. Programs we have designed, such as Home First and the Footprints Collaborative, coordinates permanent housing. It provides tenant-based rental assistance and a coordinated system of care based upon a strategic collaboration of service providers and agencies. Our housing first initiatives meet the Virginia Homeless and Special-Needs Housing Program match requirements.
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.
Check Out Our Latest Partnership: Column 15 Coffee Roastery
We are thrilled to have our own 3e blend of coffee thanks to the brilliance of Column 15 Coffee Roastery called, 3e Guatemalan Dark. It is a dark roast, bold in flavor with a sweet finish. When you buy these bags, 15% will go toward the work of community development for neighbors living through social displacement. Visit Column 15 at 701-R Merrimac Trail, Williamsburg, Virginia, or order online.
