Current Response Teams

  • To provide support for students, families, and school staff by identifying unaddressed needs, strengthening communication pathways, and ensuring schools remain safe and connected community anchors. 

    Team Lead: Katzenschwanz

    Contact: Signal APP

  • Engage faith-based communities by identifying congregational needs, mobilizing available resources, strengthening care networks, and supporting culturally grounded spiritual support systems.

    Team Lead: Genji

    Contact: Signal App

  • Assess operational and safety needs, strengthen communication channels, coordinate resource access, ensuring businesses remain viable anchors within the community care ecosystem.

    Team Lead: Speedy Potato

    Contact: Signal App

  • Assess operational and safety needs, strengthen communication channels, coordinate resource access, ensuring businesses remain viable anchors within the community care ecosystem.

    Team Lead: Speedy Potato

    Contact: Signal App

  • Increase response capacity and field coordination related to connecting residents to available legal resources with a specific emphasis on eviction defense. 

    Team Lead: Rich Uncle Skelton

    Contact: Signal App

  • Provide direct support to individual families by addressing immediate safety and basic needs, developing trusted relationships and ensuring consistent follow-up as needed.

    Team Lead: Sharon

    Contact: Signal App

  • Connect residents to available social services  by sharing known resources, reducing service duplication, and ensuring equitable, efficient access to critical supports.

    Team Lead: Vacant

    Contact: NA

  • Provide mental, physical, and community-based wellness support that stabilizes individuals and strengthens collective resilience.

    Team Lead: Kristine Sorensen

    Contact: soren@in-progress.org

  • Coordinate timely, culturally responsive interpretation and translation services that remove language barriers and support clear communication across all community sectors.

    Team Lead: Melissa

    Contact: Pending

  • Coordinate temporary housing, veterinary access, supply distribution, and reunification support.

    Team Lead: Vacant

    Contact: NA

  • Develop a sustainable, community-informed framework that strengthens long-term resilience by formalizing structures for cross-sector partnerships, resource identification, and  care systems that endure

    Team Lead: Robby Wan Chiang

    Contact: Signal App