ENGAGE

We have an overwhelming sense of purpose and are anticipating great opportunities in the future for our community and our taskforce will be right in the center of these opportunities.

Richard L. Walker Pastor

Richard L. Walker – 6

Recently I spoke to the President of Trinity Pregnancy Resource Center, who also was the director of our Local Food Pantry and They Expressed to me that this Task Force is one of the best things that has happened in Chowchilla in a long time.

Richard L. Walker Pastor

Richard L. Walker – 5

The Taskforce has become a source of information sharing as well as an opportunity to connect the community together to enhance our services.

Richard L. Walker Pastor

Richard L. Walker – 4

We made a connection between our Elementary School District and a Local Food Pantry Which enabled them to work together to provide much needed assistance to those less fortunate in our community.

Richard L. Walker Pastor

Richard L. Walker – 3

We have connected a number of families with our only employment service provider and been able to get much needed employment for these families

Richard L Walker Pastor

Richard L. Walker – 2

Since we began to meet we have seen some exciting things Happen, we have connected Community leaders together and been able to enhance the services that they offer our community

Richard L Walker Pastor

Richard L Walker

Sometimes the basics are simple: connect, listen, share, learn and do. There is a lot we can accomplish by listening to each other, helping where we can and doing what we must. It is working in Sanger, and can work in countless communities

Hugh Ralston | Community Foundations

Hugh Ralston

The city of Sanger and the School District are better because of the Community Task Force which grew itself out of some tragic circumstances, but in the end is doing so much good for so many people

Matt Navo, Superintendent | Sanger Unified School District

Matt Navo

COMMUNITY TASKFORCES

Convening strategic cross-sector collaboration, resulting in high impact community outcomes.

Our experienced team provides training and equipping in catalyzing a Community Taskforce. We equip taskforce leaders, training them to convene private, public, faith-based, and social sectors to collaborate around specific goals that seek commonly agreed upon spiritual and societal changes.

TASKFORCES OUTCOMES

Sanger connected every school to a church in the city

The Sanger Chamber of Commerce credits the Community Taskforce for helping to win a bid to relocate the headquarters of the California State American Legion (88,000 memebers) to Sanger increasing jobs and added economic growth

The taskforce has engaged 300 leaders representing 90 agencies who together have found how to leverage community assets bringing about community solutions

Hope Sanger, a solution to address Homelessness, was birthed out of the Community Taskforce

During the Taskforce Crime in Sanger dropped 35%

The Sanger school district went from bottom 2% in the State to a top ten% school district and won an award for the most improved school district in the US

Community Services Enhancements:

CMDA hosted two free medical and dental clinics with over 160 people served. Every time there is a community event hosted by a taskforce member, the other members support it by attending and participating

Personal life change story

An 11 year old boy started Stand Up and Bee Heard, and has held numerous community-wide events along with funding coming from members of the task force

Mental Health

There were suicides addressed by the task force and through NAAMI and the school Mental Health team over 90 people have taken classes for awareness, prevention and intervention

Restorative Justice

started through the task force and now 16 mediators have been trained and the police department is finalizing cases to go to mediation