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Open Table is a 501c3 nonprofit training organization that licenses its poverty transformation model to faith communities and trains them to implement the model.
A Faith-Government Poverty Transformation Movement
A Co-investment model that ends the fragmented and splintered transactional investments that do not transform poverty. Open Table partners the funding, expertise and best practices of government with the intellectual and social capital of faith communities to extend and sustain the system of care from poverty-through systems-to community.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has invited Open Table to co-develop with SAMHSA three 2017 national training conferences through Open Table:
3 National Faith-Government Conferences:
o Implementing Open Table to transform civil unrest
Open Table is about a faith community being in direct relationship with those in poverty. The relationships between Table members and the Sister and/or Brother is at the heart of the effectiveness of the model, and the ability of the Sister and/or Brother to establish long lasting relationships with their Table and with other members of the community is crucial to success.
A Descriptive and Exploratory Study of Key Elements of the Open Table Model for Poverty Intervention, 2016, Dr. Michael Marks, Ph.D
“The primacy of relationship building, the cornerstone of Open Table’s theory of change, was confirmed by study findings.”
“Relationships between Brothers/Sisters and Table members were identified as important and intensive, with many Brothers/Sisters and Table members using descriptors such as “family” and “friends”, some noting “lifelong” in describing relationships.”
The Open Table Model
Similar to“Wraparound” concept. John VanDenBerg is an advisor to the Open Table board.
Developed independently, but rests on Wraparound learning and evidence.
Partner agencies refer candidates to Tables.
Faith-government partnership provides long-term natural supports for people transitioning out of formal systems.
Focus on real, enduring change in people’s lives.
Congregation members make a year-long
commitment: 52 one- hour meetings, social interaction
Tables successfully connect to resources like these:
Update 3: The Open Table Model
Transforms Community Members
“She had been through more suffering than I could ever imagine. . . She lived out of a dumpster, prostituted, worked the whole time and saved money. She is now my friend because of our relationship on her Table. She calls me to pray, I call her to share things that happen in my life. She tells me, “You need to have patience.” I believe her because she has lived that truth. She is amazing and strong and I am blessed to call her friend. Only relationship could affect this kind of change in both of us.”
...how the community of business, non-profits, government and faith sectors form into a local movement, plan expansion, focus on populations, and how the effort and scope proceeds are all locally determined and managed as part of a community vision of their system of care under a shared purpose.
Faith communities are the implementers of Open Table at the sister/brother level and make final determinations at the model level.