Members of Mayor Thomas Menino’s “neighborhood response team” for the Bowdoin-Geneva area are hitting the streets this week to spread word of a family resource fair set for this Saturday at the First Parish Church.

The fair will give families a chance to sign up for food stamps, fuel assistance, health care, parenting support, and housing assistance.

Under a balcony with a flag that read “Dorchester 1630” and over the sound of hissing church pipes, about two dozen members of the “neighborhood response team” met on Tuesday to lay out logistics and plan street-by-street distribution of fliers promoting the fair.

The team, established over a month ago and modeled on a similar one focused on Blue Hill Avenue, gathers every other Tuesday at the church where members take up problems from trash to street lighting issues or a house with too many loud parties.

At Tuesday’s meeting, which was run by Adalberto Teixeira, deputy director for City Hall’s Office of Human Services, officials from the Boston Police Department and Inspectional Services (ISD) went through incident reports and “problem properties” and the Park Department pledged to keep the lights on longer at Ronan Park.

“Everybody comes together here to solve those problems,” said Rev. Arthur Lavoie, the minister at First Parish Church.

Darryl Smith, assistant commissioner at ISD, said his department is focusing on 181-183 Bowdoin St., the site of a recent shooting and a lot filled with debris and abandoned vehicles. The owners have been given a week to clean up the area before ISD swoops in, he said.

ISD also condemned a bank-owned property at 9 Inwood St. because of “drug use” and “squatters,” Smith said. “It’s a different street.”

But the most “troubled location” along the Bowdoin-Geneva corridor, said Smith, is a property owned by the Star Five oil company at 303 Geneva Ave, which Star Five acquired from the city for $20,000 in the early 1990s, according to a 2007 Reporter article.

The city, the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood, and the company have frequently clashed over the site, which, to the chagrin of the community, the company uses to park its vehicles. The city is now pursuing an abatement order that will eliminate parking for any vehicles on the site, Smith said.

But the focus on Tuesday was largely on the fair, which will last from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The first 100 families to show up will receive a bag of groceries and a toy.

The neighborhood is also getting an influx of federal and state grant money, some of which city officials announced last month at the Holland Community Center. In particular, $1.1 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s initiative to reduce youth violence will go toward Bowdoin Geneva, Mattapan, Grove Hall, Uphams Corner, and Orchard Gardens.

“I think we’ve been seeing progress,” said Philly Laptiste, a neighborhood resident who attended the response team meeting.