
Community Service Approach
Sometimes the processes - how you communicate, who participates, and how to find and train these people, is as important as the service itself. In our humble attempt to give our best, this is how Ark delivers vocational services to the community it serves.
E C T R
Engage * Connect * Train * Reach
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Engage
Everyone has a skill, talent, or ability. Many have perfected what they were born with into a true expertise. So often, however, we don’t get to use or share these abilities outside of a career. Ark is place that gives you the place and the tools to share your gifts with those who need them most. No more sitting the bench, let’s get out there and put those skills to the test!
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Connect
Surprising as it may be, there’s a large group of people that desperately need help with something, and conversely there’s another large group of people with the exact knowledge and skills needed by the first group,…Yet, they don’t know each other and wouldn’t feel comfortable asking the other if they did. Ark provides the environment that makes the introductions natural.
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Train
Experience, knowledge gained by doing something repeatedly over a long period of time; and if you don’t have it, you can share. We can’t defeat the process of gaining experience, but we can make it much faster and efficient. Ark helps those wanting to learn quickly skip past the most common errors so that can get busy helping themselves and others too (which is where the rest of of the experience will come from!)
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Reach
Relationships are where it’s at. You may have heard it said, “Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care” Trust is the beginning of all sharing regardless of what you’re sharing - technical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. Ark desires to build all kinds of deep diverse friendships. Once created, you can’t stop a good friendship from a bountiful production. Let the iron sharping iron begin.