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® Arabic:3 ® Multiracial:4 ® Unknown: 14 All served lived or had children who attend the Mounds View and Roseville Area School districts, which consists of New Brighton, Mounds View, Arden Hills, Shoreview, St Anthony, Roseville, Little Canada, Falcon Heights, Lauderdale andportions of Maplewood. Unanticipated results, either positive or negative: Much of the work of the CSC in its first year was crisis focused. Our main goal this coming year is to be more long-term/relationship focused in everything we do. We didn't anticipate having so many homelessness/near homeless individuals or families coming to the Center for services; nor did we anticipate that our partners would need our services in cobbling funding together for their clients as well. Resources are very limited and the CSC was seen as a stop gap service when no other resources were available. The Ally numbers served were less than anticipated, because almost all of the service occurred at the CSC through the CSW and not through "ministry planning groups ". (The Circles of Support team was run through Starfish Ministries and only attracted 4 mentor teams throughout the year). The classes/groups that we hoped to create at the center did come to pass, but very few people showed up for these classes, even when we surveyed folks and created the presentations based on what they asked for. What did you learn because of this grant? We have learned so much about the crisis housing response system and how it is so reactive and crisis based that it perpetuates crisis behaviors and toxic stress in our providers and our neighbors, their families and their children. We understand that there are so few resources and the payor of last resort' is the principle that drives these systems. However, our partners are working on moving from this crisis - oriented principle towards one that calms down the process enough to engage families and individuals in a responsive and long term view of goal setting and relationship development. This is going to be a very difficult transitionfor everyone, as we are all, both neighbors and providers alike, conditioned to wait until for a crisis to `ripen' in order to respond. In Year 2 of this work, we are working on instituting a two-tiered approach: 1) that addresses the immediate crisis response, and 2) that addresses a 6-9 month goal orientated relationship with mentors and volunteers providing a social support system with CSW supervision and support. We hope in Tier], a corps of volunteers will provide navigational support with the neighbor under CSW supervision. Will you make any changes based on these results? Yes. The main change we intend to make is to ask each faith partner fill out a "Commitment Form " that guarantees human, financial and in kind support to the CSC. This will ensure we have a broad base of support for individuals and families referred to the CSC moving forward. We will also need to establish work teams to address the need to broaden outreach to our faith