Clinton's Neighborhood Care Center recently expanded into Heyworth earlier this year and its Executive Director says as their plans unfold, the continued focus is to make connections in the community.

Cody Monkman explains they admit they don't have everything figured out and are dealing with a different community from Clinton. He says they are phasing in the program in Heyworth.

According to Monkman, as he and the Neighborhood Care Center Board considered expansion and researched where would be the best place to expand, he points out one thing that stood out to him was the underserved population of southern McLean County.

As he works to establish relationships in Heyworth, Monkman says it is a lot of knocking on doors, introducing himself and the Neighborhood Care Center is instrumental. He calls it time-consuming but fruitful.

Monkman spoke to the culture of the organization. He believes they need to establish the right community in Heyworth and if they can do that, they will be successful.

Monkman says the phased-in planning is intentionally structured so they do not need a very large group of community members. He indicates though, as they look to the holidays, they will need to start finding more volunteers. 

You can find the Neighborhood Care Center on Facebook for more information about both networks or visit neighborhoodcarecenter.net.