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OUR VISION
We envision a world where responsibility of care is the bedrock of local communities everywhere, and healthy communication and connection is fostered between people who are housed and unhoused.
OUR WORK
The Community Development Initiative: To transform and inspire communities to approach the issues of homelessness and trauma from a place of deep compassion, care, and a desire to help. To use non-denominational, connection-and-conversation based transformation to create a volunteer base of educated, informed and compassionate community members.
The People for People Initiative:
To create and provide opportunities for spiritual empowerment, growth and life change in the lives of those who are experiencing poverty, homelessness and local incarceration.
The Street Ministry Initiative:
To support (financially, collegially, emotionally, spiritually), develop and represent the crucial work of street ministers in local communities across the United States.
OUR MISSION
We equip local communities to build professional and community-based systems of wholistic care for those living in the institutions of poverty, homelessness and county incarceration.
OUR VALUES
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Empowerment: We stand under the belief that true change comes from within, not from others. Our role is to uplift strengths, provide brave space for healing, and to demonstrate healthy, communicative relationships. We use these skills to empower individuals, interpersonal relationships and larger communities.
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Connection: We see that so many communities in the US are deprived of the kind of connection that allows for a healthy, thriving and positive community experience. We seek to find ways to build and heal connections within a community.
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Spiritual Care: We believe that spiritual care is the most essential and undervalued piece of the social services system in our society and must be brought to the forefront if we are interested in seeing any sort of cultural change.
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Radical Space of Belonging: We seek to create radical spaces of belonging wherever we are and in every space we support. This means that people of all races, genders, sexualities, socio-economic statuses, mental states, sobriety states and housing states are treated with respect, human dignity, kindness, compassion and welcome.
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Compassionate Boundaries: We believe that at the core of any community of belonging are strong, clear, and compassionate boundaries that protect and serve all people within the community.
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Abundance: We believe that abundance and prosperity is a sacred human experience. We believe that every human being has an inalienable right to abundance, prosperity, and pleasure
About Founder & Street Minister
Rev. Charlotte Cramer
Rev. Charlotte is an ordained Interfaith Minister and Chaplain with her Master of Divinity from Starr King School for the Ministry, a Certificate in Chaplaincy from The Chaplaincy Institute, and four units of Clinical Pastoral Education from The Shaw Chaplaincy Institute. She works as a street minister with The Street Chaplaincy in San Rafael, Marin County, CA, providing spiritual care for the many unhoused folks currently living in the city. Rev. Charlotte also works in Marin County Jail, providing direct spiritual care to inmates (with a list of at least 10-16 clients) and leads weekly tarot card reading group sessions. Prior to this work, Rev. Charlotte worked in family ministries for a UU congregation, lived in and managed a retreat center in Costa Rica, and lived in a spiritual community in Nevada City, CA. Rev. Charlotte has been studying, both personally and academically, inter-spiritual mystical experience, deep listening, non-ordinary states of consciousness and death/dying for over 5 years. She has a deep passion for spirituality, caring for the human soul, and for her calling as a street minister. Rev. Charlotte lives in San Anselmo, CA, with her little puppy dog, Willie, and spends her free time in nature, practicing jiu jitsu, and going to ecstatic dance.
