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Orange County residents and organizations discuss food security, homelessness - The Daily Tar Heel <br />https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2019/03/justice-community-workshop-0326[5/13/2019 10:18:47 AM] <br />Around 70 community members joined the Family Success Alliance, Orange County Partnership to End <br />Homelessness and the Orange County Food Council for the Charity and Justice Community Workshop at <br />the Carrboro Century Center on Monday. <br />Allison De Marco, outgoing chairperson of the leadership team of the OCPEH, said the event was meant <br />to share the three hosting organizations’ work with the community and raise awareness on the difference <br />between charity and justice approaches to human need. <br />“Our organizations have been working with the county to really think about systems change and how we <br />make, how we impact issues of poverty and homelessness and food insecurity in a more lasting and <br />systematic way,” she said. <br />She said providing shelter or food to people experiencing homelessness or food insecurity is an example of <br />a charity response, while expanding affordable housing is an example of a justice response. <br />EDITORS PICKS <br />Editorial: We stand with <br />UNC Charlotte <br />UNC women's basketball <br />head coach CourtneyBanghart ready for 'a new <br />beginning' <br />Office DJ: Here's where our <br />bottom quotes came from allyear <br />Syndee Kraus, a Carrboro resident, said she came to the event because she was interested in the topic. <br />She said it can be difficult to know how to respond to human need. <br />“My husband and I give charitably and want to be actively involved, but you don’t always know that what <br />you’re doing is helping,” she said. <br />During the event, community members broke off into groups and were assigned topics like homelessness, <br />unemployment, hunger and access to health care. They were subsequently asked to think of causes of the <br />issue, as well as charity and justice responses. <br />When one community member asked if event attendees were allowed to switch groups after seeing his <br />assignment, Ashley Heger, the coordinator of the OCFC, empowered him to stick with his original topic.