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Hopewell committee outlines faith-based model for unsheltered services after New Bern site visit
Summary
An unsheltered-committee field-trip report described a New Bern, N.C., faith-community model that pairs daily no-barrier meals, case management and a small emergency bed capacity with extensive volunteer networks; committee plans to return with a local proposal developed with faith-based partners.
Mr. Bennett, speaking for the city's unsheltered committee, summarized a site visit to New Bern, North Carolina, portraying a decades-old, community-driven model that couples daily meal service with case management, targeted housing placement and workforce services.
Bennett described the New Bern operation as a community campus that started as volunteer work in 1982 and grew into a nonprofit with paid…
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