Doesn the Church Care Service Outreach duplicate or overlap existing benevolence programs in the agencies?
No. This is a matter of Church Care policy. Whether a referral has come to Church Care from a church or from an agency source, the initial resource search will be in the agency system. If the service requested can be handled by a funded agency, it will be referred to the agency. Church Care has installed in its computers contact data and service descriptions for all 1200 funded agencies now serving the Indianapolis area. Referrals to churches are only those which the agencies cannot or will not address.
