PORT ST. JOE

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PORT ST. JOE

• Jessie Ball duPont Fund
• Assets Team Conference
• Main Library, Jacksonville, FL
• October 28-30, 2008

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What we set out to do
PORT ST. JOE

• Develop Affordable Housing
• Create Jobs (spin off from hospital)
• Develop a Young Adult Leadership Program

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Our goals now are
PORT ST. JOE

• Completion of the One Stop Shop, partnering
  with the CDC, CCDF, SHIP, and People Helping
  People Programs
• Pursue affordable housing sales and rentals
• Finalize the Young Adult Leadership Program
• Begin the EITC Program
• Begin the financial management and personal
  education programs

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What changed?
PORT ST. JOE

• Changed the Asset Team goals
• Brought in new CDC leadership
• Development of a One Stop Shop
• The St. Joe Asset Team members
• Ricky Farmer
  Eddie Fields
• Reverend Phil Fortin
  Brenda Galloway
• Pastor Charles Gathers
  Quen Lamb
• Mayor Mel Magidson, Jr.
  Denise Manuel
• Jane McNabb
  Debbie Mikolajczyk
• Honorable Nathan Peters, Jr.
  Diana Sealey
• Clay Smallwood
  Anna Tankersley
• Erika White
  Troy White
• Tim Wilder

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Strategies pursued
PORT ST. JOE

• Affordable Housing
• Expand the SHIP Program
• Build single, duplex, and fourplex housing to be
  sold or rented
• Education
• Develop the financial management and personal
  education programs
• Develop trade schools and non-credit courses for
  students in high school and college
• Provide transportation for students
• Medical
• Education
• Provide child care education
• Educate the mother on her health care
• Provide assistance/Transportation to medical
  appointments

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How were organized
PORT ST. JOE
CCDF Diana Sealey Fred Willis Catherine
Collier
CDC Board
Executive Director Quen Lamb
Administrative Assistant Erika White
People Helping People Quen Lamb Erika
White Jerry Stokoe Eddie Fields
Affordable Housing Eddie Fields
SHIP Program Ricky Farmer
EITC Program
PIN
Asset Building
Food Bank
Furniture Bank
Churches United for Social Change
Referral Service
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Signs of progress
PORT ST. JOE

• Development of the One Stop Shop
• Setting up of partnerships
• A noticeable attitude change by City and County
  Government

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Challenges
PORT ST. JOE

• Slow down of the economy
• Changing team members and resetting the goals for
  the Asset Team
• Delay in hospital completion date, currently
  reducing potential jobs
• City and County attitudes

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Looking ahead
PORT ST. JOE

• We need to know how to improve fund raising
  skills
• We need to know how to improve community
  motivation
• We need to improve our knowledge of affordable
  housing
• We need to utilize consultants to expand our
  knowledge of the above issues

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Anticipated next steps
PORT ST. JOE

• We intend to focus on the following
• Increasing the community usage of the One Stop
  Shop over the 2008 base.
• Create at least one successful affordable housing
  project.
• Finalize the Young Adult Leadership Program.
• Complete and utilize the financial and personal
  education programs.
• Continue to develop positive attitudes of the
  City and County citizens and government.