This group exists to connect neighbors, share information, and coordinate support so that residents, families, and local businesses in the North End can respond to challenges together. Our goal is to strengthen relationships and build a community-led network of care that helps ensure no one has to navigate difficult moments alone.

Our work is organized through Response Teams and Systems Teams, each with distinct roles. Response Teams address immediate and emerging community needs, while Systems Teams maintain the communication channels, tools, and processes that support coordinated action.

Each team leads its own planning process and shares updates with the larger group in three areas: Actions (steps being taken), What’s Next (current priorities), and Asks (requests for information, assistance, or resources). This structure allows teams to work independently while staying aligned and informed.

The following roles describe how volunteers contribute their time, skills, and coordination to support the community response effort.

• Team Members: Groups of people working together toward a shared function or objective. These teams self-organize but report back to larger teams with progress reports and needs. •

• Leads: Individuals responsible for coordinating a team’s work and ensuring accountability. •

• Navigators: Individuals who provide follow-up support and help others move through systems, referrals, and longer-term processes. • Connectors Connectors who communicate between teams, community, or external partners to ensure trusting relationships are established and communication flows in both directions.

• Crews: Task-focused groups mobilized to complete specific, often short-term, operational activities.

• Coordinators: Individuals responsible for organizing people, information, and activities across teams to ensure efforts are aligned, communication is clear, and actions move forward efficiently and consistently.

• Specialists: Individuals or groups that bring specific skills and expertise to building, troubleshooting, and strengthening processes and services.

• First Responders: Individual or a small team that addresses urgent or unexpected needs in real time by assessing situations quickly, troubleshooting barriers, and directing people to appropriate support or resources.

These are the teams that are currently operating or have been identified as needed:

System Teams support the overall community response by building and maintaining the tools, processes, and communication channels that help response teams operate effectively. Click on the link below for further detail:

• systems teams

Response Teams focus on addressing immediate and emerging needs directly within the community. They work directly with residents,

• response teams

Planning Support

• Currently seeking an individual to join the team that has effective communication and organizational skills as well as the ability to follow up and address asks from other teams.

Signal Moderator

• Currently seeking an individual that can monitor the Signal community care feed. This position requires the moderator to be objective and not connected to working teams (assists with objectivity).

Interpreters

• Need for Hmong, Karen, Somali, Spanish speakers.

Volunteer Intake Coordinator

• Currently seeking an individual to read volunteer request forms, provide initial training and then link volunteers to teams.

Canvassers

• currently seeking volunteers to visit with businesses and share information.

These are steps that are being taken by teams to deepen and expand our connectedness to neighbors.

• Digital Engagement: create web links that will further connect teams to need resources that include contact information, spreadsheets, etc.

• Canvassing: Someone from the canvassing team will organize and downsize materials.

• Toys: Resource Allocations team have inventoried toys that are in storage and are now working to arrange delivery of items to those in need.

• Teams Identifications: Teams are currently submitting a role identification form that will be made available within the next week or two.

• Drivers: the team is working to gather prep materials/guidance for drivers that are transporting residents to immigration hearings.

We need an articulated plan and timeline for moving toy donations from storage to children.

Need for a Signal Moderator

Here’s the space where we will be throwing our ideas for ways we can celebrate and further support our neighborhood:

• Free market trade and barter activities

• pop up veggie markets

• pop up arts activities