Redding Restart: Addressing Partnerships

Date: Friday, August 2, 2024, 9am-Noon

Location: SCOE Professional Development Center, 2985 Innsbruck Drive, Redding

Hosted by Jonathan Anderson, Executive Director of the Good News Rescue Mission

Dear Redding Community,

Thank you for your valuable input! Your voices have guided our next Mission’s Redding Restart event towards a crucial focus: understanding how our local agencies collaborate to support individuals experiencing homelessness. The number one question asked in the reply was: Why don’t agencies work together more?.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

  • Interactive Engagement: Get hands-on experience witnessing how various agencies collaborate.
  • Insightful Panel Discussion: Four experts will share how their organizations positively impact our community.
  • Networking Opportunities: Connect with representatives from 15 different agencies providing essential services in Redding.

Key Questions: We encourage you to register and submit questions about these vital partnerships. Your inquiries will shape the discussion and ensure we address your concerns effectively.

Registration: Attendance is free, but registration is required to secure your spot. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, engage, and contribute to our community’s collective efforts!

Contact: For inquiries and registration, please reach out to Mimi Moseley mmoseley@gnrm.org.

Let’s come together, learn, and work towards a brighter, more supportive future for all members of our community.

For questions contact Mimi Moseley at mmoseley@gnrm.org

PANELISTS:

Crystal Spencer, Faithworks Executive Director

Crystal is a blessed believer, Alaskan Native, grateful mom of boys, a wife and big fan of “do-overs.” She was kindly helped to her feet by various Shasta County entities in 2012 after becoming homeless and losing everything due to my substance abuse issues. Crystal is now a homeowner holding a Masters Degree in Management and Leadership and is the Executive Director of FaithWorks Community Coalition. FaithWorks collaborates to help provide transitional and permanent supportive housing for homeless families and veterans with a focus on prevention, education and generational cycles. 

Megan Preller, Ready for Life Administrator

Megan has an MSW working as an Administrator/Supervising Social Worker and Host Homes Program Coordinator with over 15 years experience working in social services. She began her time at Ready for Life as Administrative Assistant, later becoming a Support Counselor where she worked with Intensive Treatment Foster Children, and now serves as Administrator of the organization. Megan started the Host Homes program in 2019, in an effort to address our community’s homeless youth crisis. The program focuses efforts on providing housing and other resources to housing unstable youth (ages 18-24) in Shasta County. Megan is passionate about the children, youth, and families in our community, and has devoted her life’s work to supporting them.

Tim Danielson, United Way Senior Program Manager

Tim has worked in social services for over 15 years.  He has served the homeless and at risk of homelessness community in Fresno, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Hanford, Eureka, Napa and Redding.  Tim has managed homeless prevention, substance use, emergency food/feeding, shelter, transitional housing, and workforce development programs.  Tim spent six years as the local Salvation Army Officer in Redding and now works for United Way of Northern California as the Sr. Program Manager Homelessness where he oversees the NorCal 516 CoC HMIS and Coordinated Entry System administration and the South Market Micro Shelter.

Amber Middleton, Shasta Community Health Sen. Director of HOPE

Amber is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, with a master’s in social work and bachelor’s in psychology.  Amber has been working in the field of social work in Shasta County with populations who have been greatly impacted by social determinants of health, poverty, lack of housing and trauma for over 20 years .  Through her career she has learned that systems are often not designed to meet those who are in most need of comprehensive services and she has spent most of her career working to improve coordination of care and access to services.

Her vision for equity and well being in the community is for service delivery systems to be coordinated to deliver patient driven, trauma informed care to the community. Amber would like all members in the community to have access to the resources they need to have housing, health care and a living wage so that we may begin to change our community’s legacy of poverty, high scores of adverse childhood experiences and substance use in our community.