Social Services Roundtable discusses territorial efforts

social services roundtable discusses territorial efforts. delegates at the social services roundtable photo by john docter. the 2012 social services roundtable, held in long beach, calif., presented more than a dozen ways the territory serves: from ministering to veterans, job training for the working poor to finding homes for the homeless. the theme for the event came from john 15:5: jesus said, “i am the vine; you are the branches. if you remain in me and i in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”. three notable programs discussed at the roundtable include: the pathway of hope initiative implemented in the central territory and under consideration in the west to provide enhanced case management to vulnerable families through designated corps social services; the california united project engineered by major sherry mcwhorter to make the state aware of the work the army does in california with 483 social service programs and a nearly $210 million budget; and missionbridge, a missional approach to link social services with the corps via a certified training for designated salvationist chaplains, orientation for corps soldiery, evaluation and development of evidence-based practices and the creation of a new type of social service linkage, the missionbridge corps.