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Mobile Safety-Net Team Strategic Direction

We are working with elected officials, faith-based groups, citizens and local and regional organizations to determine the needs in communities, how to bolster their services and how to help connect residents to services they need. Our goals are to provide information to foundations to help them direct their funding for basic human needs services where it is most needed; provide outreach and networking support to local and regional service providers and, of course, connect people who have never needed assistance before to necessary services. We also hope to ensure that organizations that publish directories on available services have the most current information.

We have three teams that are travelling to every community in Erie and Niagara counties, spending about five weeks in each municipality working to meet our goals and those of our many partners. We culminate our time in each community with a three day Community Resource Event. These events provide opportunities for organizations to provide outreach and to network with other service providers, as well as to make it easy for residents to access services without leaving their communities.