'Stone Soup' collaboration: Hampton staff urges centralized guide, partner round table
City staff proposed a 'Stone Soup' model and a centralized resource guide to reduce service navigation gaps, plus partnerships with colleges, faith groups and nonprofits to scale training and temporary housing repurposing.
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Deanna Valentine described the "Stone Soup" approach as a framework for many community partners to contribute time, skills or small resources so that, together, they can meet household needs that single programs cannot. "So what is it, what's going to be needed to move this family forward?" she asked, urging inclusion of people with lived experience on partner tables.
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