In 2007, the new Congregation of St. Joseph was formed with the combining of seven CSJ Congregations throughout America's heartland. The new Congregation had over 35 ministries under its care and within a year of the Congregation’s formation, CSJ Ministries came into being. CSJ Ministries was created as the “sponsorship arm” of the Congregation, the organization that would be completely dedicated to current and future sponsored ministries of the Congregation. Over the past 10 years, CSJ Ministries has worked to support, encourage, help sustain, and provide leadership for the ministry organizations the Congregation of St. Joseph is proud to sponsor.
The sponsorship structures and processes the Congregation has used in relation to their ministries have worked very well over many years. However, in recent years it has become apparent that these structures no longer fit the changing realities. Emerging realities have led the CSJ Ministries board to assess its historical sponsorship model and begin to envision a new model, a new way for the future. For the past two years the CSJ Ministries Board has been in the process of assessing the current CSJ Sponsorship model and determining what is needed going forward into the future. Collective Impact has been assisting CSJ Ministries through this transformational paradigm shift by providing planning, development, stakeholder engagement, and change management services.
Collective Impact continues our work with the CSJ Ministries Board in visualizing the emergence of the CSJ Mission Network, a flexible, nimble, and adaptive structure whereby all current and future ministers and ministerial outreaches are strongly united by the Congregation’s mission and charism for many years to come … “that all may be one.”
Over the course of four years, Collective Impact has provided an array of system-building services for the West Virginia Home Visitation Program (WVHVP) to build and strengthen the capacity of the home visitation system in the state. Services have included providing quarterly, regional system-building planning meetings, home visitation expansion retreat services, and numerous trainings and workshops on a variety or related topics. The West Virginia Home Visitation Program involves partnerships at federal, state and community levels to help families in need. The program is available for pregnant women and all children (birth to five).The WVHVP connect families with services and resources that provide education and support and delivers positive support, education, referrals and information on resources. WV HVP services are provided through the following programs: Partners in Community Outreach (Healthy Families America, Maternal Infant Health Outreach Workers and Parents as Teachers), Early Head Start, Right From the Start and Health Start/Helping Appalachian Parents & Infants project.
"Bruce and Jeremy were a pleasure to work with on our agency's Comprehensive Community Needs Assessment project. They made sure they understood our needs and worked diligently to deliver a product that exceeded my expectations." ~ Rick Smith, Executive Director, Eastern West Virginia Community Action Agency, Moorefield, West Virginia
