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• Immigration reform networking project in partnership with Dioceses of Atlanta, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Olympia, Rochester, Southern Ohio, Upper South Carolina, and Washington • Multimonth advocacy campaign for comprehensive immigration reform in collaboration with the Presiding Bishop, Bishops Working for a Just World, and Bishop of Rochester Prince Singh; participating bishops/ dioceses included Arizona, Central New York, Iowa, North Carolina, Rochester, San Diego, and Western North Carolina. • Office of Black Ministries Rising Stars Program: The office helps to implement the program to ensure mentor training, background checks and Safe Church Training in the Dioceses of Central Florida, Long Island, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Southern Ohio. • Office of Government Relations hosted youth D.C. mission trip for discussion on faith, policy, and politics. • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • State Public Policy Network development • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • United Thank Offering Grant: Circles Chatham, St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Pittsboro, $14,275 • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training 16 5