Leadership
Buzz Ritchie
Team Chairs
Education: Ted Kirchharr
Environment: Dr. Enid Sisskin
Health: Robin Herr
Housing: Susan Senkarik
Poverty: Tim Evans
Sponsors
Partners
31 Individuals
70 Organizations
7 Sponsors
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About Our Team |
Mission: To Make Escambia County a Community Without Poverty!
The Poverty Solutions Team, chaired by Tim Evans, Executive Director, Manna Food Pantries, is currently meeting once a month to review recent community reports and research best practices of other communities to reduce the following:
- Number of Children in poverty
- Number of Elderly in poverty
- Homelessness
The team has adopted the concepts and language of Bridges Out of Poverty and CIRCLES™ to change mindsets about poverty and to build a sustainable increase in community partners motivated to improve the conditions of neighbors and colleagues living in generational poverty.
Additionally, the Poverty Solutions Team works closely with the Housing Solutions Team as many of the goals are shared. Housing solutions and goals are discussed at monthly Poverty Solutions Team meetings, held the third Thursday of each month at 3:30 p.m. at the Dorrie Miller Community Center, 2819 North Miller St., Pensacola.
A growing number of businesses, government, educators, faith‐based and non‐profit organizations, and the community at large have all become part of the solution.
Goals
Poverty:
- Reduce the number of people living below the federal poverty line in Escambia County by 50%, from 42,935 including 16,918 children (15.8%) to 21,467 in 2020 (7.9%), including 8,459 children.
- Increase to 200 the number of partners working to reduce poverty by June 30, 2011.
Housing:
- Increase by 100 every quarter the number of individuals who have the tools necessary to obtain/maintain affordable housing.
- Conduct at least 10 housing workshops yearly with emphasis on basic money management, credit and credit repair, and basic home maintenance.
- Decrease substandard housing by half (from 5% to 2.5%) by 2020.
- Increase homeownership by 10% by 2020.
Haley Richards, richardsh@cc.ptdiocese.org, for more information.