Transylvania Resource Access & Information Network TRAIN
Feb 22, 2016
Transylvania Resource Access & Information
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Transylvania County Collaboration
History1910-2005
• A “value added product”& “failure not an option” spawns – Collaboration
• The Great Clergy Scam Spawns “Sharing House”
A forward looking board plans for :Inclusiveness
Case – Management & Benefits Enrollment
Dad’s Job
Transylvania County
CollaborationHistory
1955 – United Way of Transylvania County
1981 - The Great Clergy Scam Spawns “Sharing House”
2005 - A forward looking board plans for :Inclusiveness
Case – Management & Benefits Enrollment
1981 - The Great Clergy Scam
Spawns Sharing House
After the third Scam Artist gets $200 fromA clergy member and the board
Has to pay it.Lib Provence gets the churches to
Collaborate
Sharing House 1981Brevard, NC
2005-2010 2005 - Sharing House -
Roundtable monthly meeting.All county non-profits invited – anyone
welcome“Open meeting philosophy”
2009 – United Way and Transylvania collaborative
TRAINInformation Sharing & Refferal
Management for Transylvania County non-profits
“No wrong door” approachThe Haven
Sharing House Roundtable
Regular meetingsNo hierarchy
No “sacred cows” All participants equal
Failure not an option
Guiding Principles
Client FocusedSimplicityTeamwork
HolisticAccountable
Inclusive
Transylvania Resource Access & Information
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Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
-Henry Ford