By Jessica J. Burchard
AmeriCorps*VISTA Sara Mraz has seen partnerships for The Ohio Benefit Bank begin right before her eyes.
Mraz, who coordinates OBB events in the West Ohio Food Bank region, finds herself closely observing the interactions among different agencies and the tentative agreements they reach.
“By doing these events it really does put together the organizations in that community in one area,” Mraz said during a telephone interview. “It really is hard to get all the power players in one area to hear one message. Also, we are bringing awareness to the whole idea of people in need, whether it’s visually or telling stories of people in need.”
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| Guests at the Hardin County OBB Event get acquainted as they prepare for the presentation to begin. Many of them are county officials such as JFS, city council and executive directors of nonprofits. Submitted by Sara Mraz. |
Recently, Mraz saw two groups join together in an effort to expand the OBB.
Representatives from the Forest-Jackson Library and the Forest United Methodist Church began discussing partnering at the Hardin County OBB Luncheon event on July 21 in Ada to create a new site for The Ohio Benefit Bank.
Mraz recalls how enthusiastically the librarian expressed her interest in using The Ohio Benefit Bank computer software to assist people in need that would come to the library for help. Many times, she would send them to the United Methodist Church as a place to start. By partnering together, they could potentially help more people in their local community.
Neither the church nor the library has registered at this time for the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks’ free hour-long Pre-Training Orientation program. The computerized program, which can be done from any computer with Internet access, is the prerequisite for the free six-hour training for individuals to become certified OBB counselors.
As Mraz continues to plan and attend OBB awareness events, she keeps her goal in focus:
“To me, having this tool and making people aware is crucial. Each county is different and depending on the knowledge and awareness that each organization has of their community’s resources can really help to connect people in need to ways that they can survive. The OBB is just one way that we can start to help our fellow Ohioans,” she said.
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