Nuestra’s Organizing & Resident Services department began to transform itself this past fall to provide a greater level of all-around service to the community. For years, resident support staff predominantly worked one-on-one with tenants living in our properties. The staff, working closely with the new Executive Director, created new strategies to address the rapidly changing community needs. One decision was to focus community stabilization efforts within the Dacia FIT area, which is in effect “ground zero” for the current economic crisis within our communities. Additionally, Nuestra restructured the department around the following initiatives: using social networking principles to engage small groups of residents in designing initiatives to solve local concerns; community safety organizing to address the effects of foreclosures; and curriculum development and management of our community learning centers based on needs identified by residents through surveys and focus groups. This restructuring of initiatives is now accomplishing two goals: providing an increasingly perceptive understanding and grass-roots support network regarding the social fallout in the Dacia FIT area from the foreclosure and economic crisis; and providing a broader spectrum of services as requested by the community.