Neighborhood Impact & Resources Steering Committee

The purpose and intent of the Trusted People Neighborhood Engagement Steering Committee is to connect human service providers and residents of the neighborhoods for greater awareness and access to available resources. The focus group serves as a fact‑finding source of community input and technical resources for County, City, CSC, and UWBB staff to develop recommendations that strengthen engagement with neighborhoods experiencing high rates of food insecurity, improve access to and knowledge of available resources, and reduce barriers to healthy and nutritious food and overall economic prosperity.

• Conduct quarterly meetings with agencies funded by the County, City, CSC, UWBB, and Big Bend Continuum of Care to become familiar with available services and how they are delivered.
• Conduct quarterly meetings with neighborhood stakeholders to gather information on human services needs of residents and disseminate information about available services through community contacts such as churches, HOAs, youth sports teams, barber shops, beauty salons, Title I school counselors, and others.
• Gather feedback from residents to assist County, City, CSC, and UWBB in developing recommendations for consideration by respective Boards to improve residents’ access to information and services, thereby reducing barriers to basic services that support economic prosperity.
• Assist County, City, CSC, and UWBB staff in planning and implementing programs and events that engage neighborhood leaders and stakeholders to raise awareness of available resources to the community.
• Participate in the review of Community Human Services Partnership (CHSP) outcome measures and provide feedback on programmatic success and challenges of funded programs to improve outcomes for residents that utilize human services agencies.
• Participate in the development and implementation of diversity, economic, and inclusionary training for CHSP agencies to improve cultural sensitivity and awareness, expanding access and delivery of human services to residents in the targeted neighborhoods.

Members must be at least 18 years old, resident of Leon County, and demonstrate knowledge, experience, capacity, and cultural awareness necessary to engage children, families, and households within neighborhoods that struggle or are reluctant to access nutritious food and meal resources. At least five members must be residents of the following neighborhoods, with at least one resident from each:
Bond, Frenchtown, Griffin Heights, Providence, and South City.

Term Length: 3 years (expiring December 31). Maximum Number of

Terms:

3. No member shall serve more than three full consecutive terms. Vacancies are filled for the remainder of the unexpired term.

To be determined.

Focus Group