A Support Team Initiative is a community plan to empowers several organizations to create and sustain teams where they worship, work, or live.

A Support Team Initiative is a practical way for several organizations and congregations to share a common training together and to learn from each other's experience in order to develop more and healthier teams.

Instead of training and learning in isolation, an Initiative introduces the Team Approach to several groups at once by teaching "Team Developers" how to to start Support Teams in a congregation or organization. Each participating group has the flexibility of applying the Support Team model to any needs it wants to address, while at the same time having the advantage of learning from and supporting one another.

An "Initiative Team" is formed (A Support Team for Support Teams) from organizations or congregations in the community who assume responsibility for the planning, funding, and support of the Initiative.

The five phases to a Support Team Initiative include Exploring, Preparing, Training, Developing, and Supporting.