Irene Frechette
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Irene Frechette replied to the topic GA Background Checks in the forum
Getting Ahead Programs 3 years, 7 months ago
Hi Bill — this is Irene in Massachusetts – we do not do background checks on our investigators. I remember that one the Vincentian Groups were being requested to do so. They were holding their meetings on church property. We do not hold our meetings on church property, therefore, there are no restrictions concerning background. As good…[Read more]
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Irene Frechette started the topic Getting Ahead Blog from Dayton, Ohio in the forum
Getting Ahead Programs 3 years, 10 months ago
New story from Sunnie Lain in Dayton, Ohio – read her blog on the most recent graduating class from the Dayton Getting Ahead Program – great week by week chronicle
https://stvincentdayton.org/?s=Getting+ahead -
Irene Frechette started the topic Getting Ahead Blog from Dayton, Ohio in the forum
Getting Ahead Programs 3 years, 10 months ago
New story from Sunnie Lain in Dayton, Ohio – read her blog on the most recent graduating class from the Dayton Getting Ahead Program – great week by week chronicle
https://stvincentdayton.org/?s=Getting+ahead -
Irene Frechette started the topic Getting Ahead Blog from Dayton, Ohio in the forum
Getting Ahead Programs 3 years, 10 months ago
New story from Sunnie Lain in Dayton, Ohio – read her blog on the most recent graduating class from the Dayton Getting Ahead Program – great week by week chronicle
https://stvincentdayton.org/?s=Getting+ahead -
Irene Frechette started the topic Getting Ahead Blog from Dayton, Ohio in the forum
Getting Ahead Programs 3 years, 10 months ago
New story from Sunnie Lain in Dayton, Ohio – read her blog on the most recent graduating class from the Dayton Getting Ahead Program – great week by week chronicle
https://stvincentdayton.org/?s=Getting+ahead -
Irene Frechette replied to the topic Helping "neighbors" who drop in parish office asking for money. in the forum
Reconceiving the Home Visit 3 years, 12 months ago
Hi Betty
Does your conference have their own helpline/voicemail?
Anyone who stops by the parish office in my area is given the SVDP helpline telephone number and asked to call. We check for voicemail at least once a day and call the folks back to make an appointment for a home visit -
Irene Frechette created the group
SVDP Stores Group 4 years ago
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Irene Frechette replied to the topic Home Visit Client Needs Survey in the forum
Reconceiving the Home Visit 4 years, 2 months ago
Hi Terry
this is Irene Frechette, I will search our documents and get back to you later today -
Irene Frechette replied to the topic Micro-loans in the forum
Finance/Micro-Loan Programs 4 years, 3 months ago
Judith Coleman in the NE Region, Fall River Diocese has experience with
a micro-loan program. I will have her respond -
Irene Frechette replied to the topic In-Home Work Opportunities in the forum
Job Skills/Employment Training 4 years, 5 months ago
Great idea, I will ask Tom Mulloy to pose that question in the E-Gazette
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Irene Frechette replied to the topic In-Home Work Opportunities in the forum
Job Skills/Employment Training 4 years, 5 months ago
The situations that you have uncovered are exactly what I thought of upon reading your original question
The other factor is location. What may be available in one area may not be available in another.
I really think that this may be an opportunity for the enterprise model, where you, yourself, or your team contact business owners in your area and…[Read more] -
Irene Frechette replied to the topic In-Home Work Opportunities in the forum
Job Skills/Employment Training 4 years, 5 months ago
Good Evening Ian
An interesting inquiry
I will share this with Tom Mulloy in our National Office and see if he can come up with any information
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Irene Frechette started the topic The Chicken lady – The Holy Spirit works in strange ways in the forum
Systemic Change at the Community Level 4 years, 6 months ago
Santa Rosa’s Got Eggs:
In the Fall of 2015, Linda called us for assistance. Linda’s husband works hauling rocks and when the weather is bad, there is no work, and therefore, no paycheck. We had had a lot of rain and her husband had missed several days of work. They didn’t have enough income to meet all of their bills. They were $500 short…[Read more] -
Irene Frechette started the topic Frequently Asked Questions in the forum
Getting Ahead Programs 4 years, 6 months ago
The short answer to the question of “What does it take to become a Bridges out of Poverty Facilitator is as follows:
Review/Watch the 7 DVD Series (this series can be purchased from SVDP National for $100+ or can be viewed online
At http://www.ahaprocess.com/svdp/ at NO cost to the viewer. National pays $4.50 for each v…[Read more] -
Irene Frechette uploaded the file: September Newsletter from Tucson to
Getting Ahead Programs 4 years, 7 months ago
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Irene Frechette started the topic Newsletters from Tucson in the forum
Getting Ahead Programs 4 years, 7 months ago
See Tucson’s September Newsletter in the Documents Section September 2016
Dear Vincentians and Friends:
Attached you will find a PDF file with the September 2016 OUT OF POVERTY… Systemic…[Read more] -
Irene Frechette replied to the topic Graduation Stories in the forum
Getting Ahead Programs 4 years, 8 months ago
St. John Providence, Catholic agencies in Detroit support anti-poverty initiative
August 15, 2016
By NANCY FRAZIER O’BRIEN
Jesse Maybin and LaRenda Lauchié know they’ve made some wrong turns in life.
Maybin, 37, survived a childhood filled with violence and abuse. He joined a gang at 11, became a father at 13 and by age 17 he was in prison for…[Read more] -
Irene Frechette replied to the topic Question on how to approach GA Module 8 in the forum
Getting Ahead Programs 4 years, 9 months ago
Tom Pelger offered the following advise – At week 10 of our 18 week class, investigators and mentors used the Planning Backwards exercise at the end of Module 5 to plan how they were going to investigate one of the aspects of our community from Module 8. We gave them 4 weeks before the investigators presented their conclusions. As you have…[Read more]
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Irene Frechette replied to the topic Question on how to approach GA Module 8 in the forum
Getting Ahead Programs 4 years, 9 months ago
Kathy J from the Attleboro, MA District answered – GA proved to be a learning experience for not only the investigators but Diana, Irene and myself as well. We also struggled as to how to deal with this Module. We decided to break up the Community Assessment portion of Module 8, we assigned one investigator and a mentor or facilitator to each of…[Read more]
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Irene Frechette replied to the topic Question on how to approach GA Module 8 in the forum
Getting Ahead Programs 4 years, 9 months ago
I am Diana Reeves, co-facilitator with Kathy J. in Attleboro, MA who has already clearly described the process we went through in working on Module 8. A few additional thoughts:
We tried to assign a research category that dove-tailed an interest of the investigator eg. healthcare went to a person who had suffered a major medical crisis, housing…[Read more] - Load More