Community Development Training
12 Neighbors - free 7-part video series with accompanying discussion guides challenging perspectives on poverty, marginalization, and effecting real change from a Christian perspective.
Art of Neighboring - provides tools and support for getting to know your neighbors to share the love of Christ.
Bless Every Home - Provides the names of five neighbors around a home or church address in a daily email to pray for them, as well as other resources and encouragement to support and care for neighborhoods.
Circles - program bringing together higher-, middle-, and lower-income individuals to share successes and challenges, identify and overcome barriers, and create supportive communities.
Job Clubs - churches can host these support groups for individuals looking for work. Restoring Hope Roanoke has resources and support to help churches start a successful job club. Contact us for more information.
Jobs for Life - Biblically-based soft skill training program in which unemployed and underemployed individuals work alongside "allies" who help them create resumes, career plans, and more. Training is available online. Restoring Hope Roanoke helps churches offer Jobs for Life classes in the Roanoke region.
Making Life Disciples - free online course from Care Net for churches to learn how to walk alongside and support those facing pregnancy decisions. This training equips a group of first-responders within a church to offer compassion, help, and hope to women and men facing unplanned pregnancies and raises the life-affirming IQ of the whole church related to abortion.
ProLove Church - Training and support for churches wanting to reach out to men and women facing unplanned pregnancies or single parenting, including Embrace Grace groups for pregnant women, Embrace Life groups for single moms, and Embrace Legacy groups for single dads. Each of these support groups includes a structured Bible study curriculum.
Spent - free, interactive, web-based game allowing players to understand the lives and choices of individuals in poverty.
The Chalmers Center - resources and training for individuals, churches, and nonprofits on walking in Christian relationships with those experiencing poverty, including Faith & Finances, a Biblically-based program considering stewardship and finances.
Think Tank - provides training to increase understanding, connect with communities, and utilize approaches that partner with low income individuals to create lasting change. Programs include COPE (Cost of Poverty Experience), an immersive poverty simulation that may be tailored for a church, and ACTS, a model of how churches can engage with people in poverty to heal the broken relationships with God, self, others, and the rest of creation and build lasting relationships.