Irene Frechette

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]

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

Hi Terry
this is Irene Frechette, I will search our documents and get back to you later today

Judith Coleman in the NE Region, Fall River Diocese has experience with
a micro-loan program. I will have her respond

Great idea, I will ask Tom Mulloy to pose that question in the E-Gazette

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]

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
Irene

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]

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]

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]

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]