Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum™: How to Build and Sustain Communities Episode 5, Part 2

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Conflict Resolution, Racial Reconciliation and Healing through Collaboration, Charles Barnes, Director of Community Outreach

Contact and Bio
Email: cbarnes@fatherssupport.org
Website: www.fatherssupportcenter.org
Twitter: @fatherssupport
Facebook: Fathers Support Center
LinkedIn: Fathers Support Center

​Charles Barnes has been employed with FFSC for 20 years. He has served as a Facilitator, FFSC Substance Abuse Program Monitor, Employment manager, Director of Employment Services and now the Director of Community Outreach.
With a history of excellence and extensive experience, Mr. Barnes is strategic and highly motivated while providing facilitation and trainings in the areas of responsible behavior, employment readiness and family reunification. He has facilitated in the community, local, state and federal correctional institutions. 
Mr. Barnes’ life accomplishments consist of an array of experiences which assist to enhance life skills, self-esteem, and decision-making skills, skills on coping with stress, anger management, and family interactions. As well, he teaches families about new ways of living and working together that are healthy.  He’s covered topics that touched on parenting, adult relationships in healthy families, solving family problems, passing on values to children, sex, drugs and rock and roll. He has made significant contributions that have impacted the lives of many children and adults. Mr. Barnes’ true passion encompasses motivating and educating people from all walks of life

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Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum™: How to Build and Sustain Communities
Episode 5, Part 2: Charles Barnes, Director of Community Outreach
 
Conflict Resolution, Racial Reconciliation and Healing through Collaboration

• Charles explains FFSC teachings around conflict resolution, starting with inner conflicts with ourselves and how to proact before facing triggering situations
• Charles describes the mindsets and principles FFSC teaches for navigating unjust situations
• These mindsets and principles are so powerful, they have the capacity to transform our region
• Charles describes the cultures of commitment and collaboration (internal, city, regional, state, national) that lead FFSC to tremendous community impact and life-changing outcomes 
• Charles describes how many obstacles people are facing without the presence and support of every sector and how FFSC’s wholistic approach through commitment and collaboration is helping restore that village, helping coordinate sectors for collective impact
• Charles explains the ways this village just keeps growing through the ongoing opportunities to get involved with the work of FFSC

 
Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum™: How to Build and Sustain Communities
Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum™ methods this podcast features

• Supporting people in hearing their stories, finding their paths, recognizing their journeys
• Supporting people in hearing other people’s stories, finding their paths and recognizing their journeys
• Helping people root themselves in a stream of life so deep and wide, they tap into spiritual truths that carry and empower them
• Replenishing the village of sectors working together for the good of all of our youth and families
• Supporting youth and families in finding personal agency and developing the life skills to use communication to build healthy relationships while learning new sectors
• Learning how to put ourselves in people’s shoes in ways that support communication and relationship-building within and across our differences, our departments, our sectors, and our fields
• Supporting every person in an organization and creating mentorship and cross-departmental training that helps all employees advance their careers
• The central importance of employment and of employers who help create talent pipelines and inclusive work environments