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ENP is Hiring! Multiple Positions Available

March 11, 2022 Gabrielle Piceno ENP News, Jobs

ENP is expanding our School Support Department with 3 new positions:

Volunteer Staff Coordinator: Oversee and manage the ENP volunteer and college staff experience from start to finish. Make sure everyone has a smooth onboarding, service experience, and off-boarding. This could include the creation of job descriptions, fingerprinting, connecting to various departments within ENP and the Fresno State Richter Center.
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Extended Learning Coordinator: Manage and oversee college staff and church/community volunteers at ENP’s Extended Learning programming including Read Fresno After School intervention, Saturday Sports, and other community after school programming as needed.
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Literacy Mentor Coordinator: Manage and oversee college staff and church/community volunteers in ENP’s Literacy Mentor program.
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To Apply: Fill out this Google Form and upload your resume and cover letter

A Church Discerning its Time and Place

March 8, 2022 Gabrielle Piceno Equipping

This webinar includes biblical foundations, key tools and questions, as well as examples from churches and an opportunity to interact with other church leaders wrestling with their role.

Presented in English, this is an online event via zoom. Lunch is included via gift card.

Tim Soerens –
Author, Church Planter, Catalyst

Tim Soerens is the co-founding executive director of the Parish Collective (parishcollective.org) and author of the newly released, Everywhere You Look: Discovering the Church, Right Where You Are (IVP 2020) and co-author of The New Parish (IVP 2014). Along with his wife Coté, he is helping to start South Park Neighborhood Church. Tim is a co-founding owner of Resistencia Coffee, as well as the South Park Idea Lab.

Coté Soerens, –
Planter, Innovator, Business Owner

Coté is a Planter and Innovator. As a neighborhood pastor, Coté has focused on discerning God’s dreams for the South Park community since 2014. This journey led her to see the neighborhood as an endless source of inspiration for community-based projects and community enterprises such as Resistencia Coffee, The Urban Fresh Food Collective, El Mercadito Farmer’s Market, The South Park Arts & Culture Collective, and South Park Neighborhood Christian Church.

ACEs Aware Training

February 22, 2022 Gabrielle Piceno Equipping

Join a training on screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences and responding with trauma-informed care to mitigate the health impacts of toxic stress.

Maintaining Your Church’s Convictions Without Polarization or Judgementalism

February 22, 2022 Gabrielle Piceno Equipping

The FPU Center for Community Transformation and the Center for Anabaptist Studies are proud to present another workshop in its New Skills for a New Era series of convenings for Valley congregations. This one will be of interest to all members of churches that are struggling to know how to retain their firm convictions without drawing lines that promote polarization and judgmental attitudes, or the tendency to pronounce who’s “in” and who is “out”? In an era of shrinking church attendance, what biblical principles, ministry and relational skills would a church need to grow in this ability?

This FREE online workshop called Centered on Jesus will be led by FPU Biblical Seminary’s Mark Baker, Ph.D. who will be presenting the concept of the “centered-set church,” its theological and practical foundations. FPU alum Pastor Grace Spencer, MA Theo. will also present, sharing her experience from three churches she has served in a pastoral capacity. Registrants will be able to enter a raffle to receive Dr. Baker’s new book, Centered-Set Church: Discipleship and Community Without Judgementalism (IVP), and the first 50 to register and attend will receive a $10 lunch voucher.

Resilience Based Community Development through Parent Cafes

February 11, 2022 Gabrielle Piceno Parent Engagement

In 2021 Every Neighborhood Partnership received a $50,000 grant from Kaiser to increase community resilience and trauma-informed behaviors by providing resident-led workshops. ENP trained facilitators working in 3 different neighborhoods in Fresno to run Parent Cafe workshops and support groups. The Parent Cafes were run by leaders from each neighborhood with participants from the community with whom they were already in relationship. 99 individuals went through these Parent Cafes. Participants expressed through post-session surveys that they want to go through the course again and invite new friends to attend, as well as have the group continue beyond the original length of the course. As a result, 4 out of 5 of the groups have been continuing to meet beyond the designated timeframe for the sessions because of the supportive relationships that developed through their time together.

The 8-session Parent Cafe curriculum was developed by Brainwise Solutions with the goal of equipping parents and caregivers with tools to develop Resilience, Relationships, and Rebuilding in a supportive group environment. It was created with the intent of having leaders from the community facilitate groups with a preventative approach rather than as a response after a family has gone through a specific traumatic incident.

2021 Annual Report

February 10, 2022 andrewfeil ENP News

A Note from the Executive Director

In those brief check-in conversations, I have with people in the hallway, I am often asked, “How is ENP? What have you all been up to?” Honestly, I haven’t gotten better at summarizing our work to a 1 to 2 sentence response. There is so much to say!

How do you summarize the impact of hundreds of literacy mentors who support kids’ educational and emotional development? How do you summarize residents beginning to know themselves and the power and knowledge they have to change their communities? How do you summarize the numerous church, CBO, and other partners we have worked with around Trauma/Resilience, Digital Equity, Land Use Planning, Church Equipping, and/or Racial Justice? Sometimes all I can say is, “We have an amazing team and great partners and the work is going well.”

I hope as you scan this report that you get a sense of all that has happened, that you see the work being done and the reason your support and investment in ENP is worth every penny. Thank you for partnering with us to activate our schools and neighborhoods!

Financial Snapshot
Literacy Mentoring
Recreational Resilience
Neighborhood Development
Neighborhood Health and Wellness
City-Wide Equipping

Understanding Human Trafficking

February 7, 2022 Gabrielle Piceno Equipping

Understanding Human Trafficking is a basic introduction course (previously called Human Trafficking 101). It covers:

Realities of exploitation (myths and misconceptions)
Recognizing red flags (identifying victims of exploitation)
The role of traffickers and process of recruitment
Clinical dynamics of impact on youth
Understanding paths to freedom and community resources
Ways individuals and communities can take appropriate action

Zoom link provided upon registration. Click to register.

Interfaith Scholar Weekend

February 7, 2022 Gabrielle Piceno Equipping

The Ethics Center at Fresno State University is hosting the Interfaith Scholar weekend March 18-20, 2022. It will consist of 4 free webinars on Sabbath Economics. Each of these 90-minute presentations will be presented by Ched Myers and Dr. Elaine Enns and include elements of Lecture, PowerPoint, Art, Text, Design, Polling and Q and A to engage viewers/listeners.

Friday, March 18, 2022, 7:00-8:30PM: Revisiting Old Covenants in a Time of Plagues
Saturday, March 19, 2022, 10:30-12:00 NOON: Manna vs. Mammon: Are We Building Capital or Community?
Saturday, March 19, 2022, 1:00-2:30PM: Public Addiction, Ecological Ultimatums: A Call to Recovery
Sunday, March 20, 2022, 1:00-2:30PM: Sabbath as Reparative Justice

For more information, visit interfaithscholar.org or contact Jim Grant: jimgrantbc@gmail.com

Meet Our New Resident Engagement Specialist

January 12, 2022 Alexis Kalugin Community Outreach, ENP News, Equipping, Serving Our Neighborhoods

Christian Gonzalez at ENP as a Resident Engagement Specialist!

We are pleased to congratulate Christian on her new role as a Resident Engagement Specialist within the Neighborhood Development Team of ENP. Her passion for community engagement and building relationships that cultivate empowerment has led her to pursue continued intention and growth in neighborhood-focused development.

Within her new role, she will work in six targeted neighborhood elementary schools located in the 93702 and 93706 zip codes, to build a strong network of parent and resident leaders, build community capacity, and identify community priorities that lead to positive outcomes.

“Christian brings an amazing set of skills to the ENP team as our new Resident Engagement Specialist that we can’t wait to unleash her talent on the world”

– German Quinonez, Neighborhood Development Director

Although we may not see her within the CEDP gatherings as often, this partnership allows us the benefit of staying connected and continuing to engage through other community and city networks.

Feel free to send her well wishes at her new contact email: christian@everyneighborhood.org

Welcoming and Supporting Afghan Refugees

December 21, 2021 Gabrielle Piceno Serving Our Neighborhoods

Afghan Refugees have begun moving to Fresno and there are several ways individuals and churches or groups can welcome and support our new neighbors. Check out the opportunities below!