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Episode 2, Part 1: Cheri Tillis, COO Fathers and Families and Support Center
Introduction to Podcast, Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum®: How to Build and Sustain Communities
-Introduction to core structure of the trainings provided by Fathers and Families Support Center
-Cheri’s story of growing up in St. Louis and her career path and how she found FFSC
-Cheri’s story of creating every position she occupied from case manager to COO
-How FFSC operated as a team to support one another through the growing pains
-How FFSC discovered community core needs and recruited funders and supporters to help them provide for those needs
-How FFSC branched out from those core community needs and expanded the resources they provided
-How FFSC secured steady funding that aligned with their mission and their niche
-How FFSC worked strategically with funding to keep employees employed
-How FFSC hires and promotes from within, including people who partake of their programs
-Funders who are key players in both securing funding, systematizing operations and in helping remove obstacles FFSC faces
-The range of resources St. Louis and Missouri funders provide
-Specific support and tough love for employees that streamlines operations and provides for employees and the organization

Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum®: How to Build and Sustain Communities
Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum® methods this podcast features
-Building inclusive innovative change-making teams
-Recognizing range of strengths and weaknesses of team members
-Learning the value in the cultural language practices of team members
-Providing needed training to help team members expand cultural expertise and communicate with needed audiences
-Supporting employees through learning process
-Multiple sectors as key village partners
-Identifying specific needs of community members
-Partnering with funders and organizations who join the team and understand or research the multi-faceted nature of those needs by getting to know programs, people, obstacles program participants are facing
-Building a village that makes the village FFSC is possible