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Office of Family Assistance
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| Name of Grantee: | Circle of Parents |
| Federal Project Officer: | Tanya Howell (202) 205-8714 |
| Target Population: | Married and unmarried fathers whose spouses or partners are receiving home visiting and family support services through Healthy Families America (HFA)or Parents as Teachers (PAT) programs. |
| Federal Award Amount: | $900,000/year |
| Program Name: | Circle of Parents: Enhancing the Involvement and Responsibility of Expectant and New Fathers in Partnership with Home Visiting Programs. |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
Allowable Activities: Responsible Parenting
Organization Description: Circle of Parents is a national network of national parent leaders and twenty-five statewide and two metropolitan regional non-profit organizations dedicated to using a peer to peer, self-help model of parent support as one of the means of preventing child abuse and neglect and strengthening families.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Circle of Parents proposes to implement a comprehensive training, technical assistance and capacity building project to increase the capacity of local home visiting programs to provide parent support and education that promotes responsible parenting among expectant and new fathers. In collaboration with the national advisory committee, the approach will include: training for pilot sites, the creations of a train the trainers curriculum, technical assistance and funding to support the implementation and replication of the program model in 50 sites over five years and a process and outcomes evaluation.
| Name of Grantee: | Community and Economic Development Association of Cook County, Inc. |
| Federal Project Officer: | Seledia Shephard (202) 401-5722 |
| Target Population: | 1,400 couples and single parent families in Cook County |
| Federal Award Amount: | $500,000/year |
| Program Name: | Promoting Responsible Fatherhood |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
2 (two or more allowable activities) |
Allowable Activities: Healthy Marriage - skill-based marriage education (#1); premarital counseling (#4); and relationship skill education (#5); counseling, mentoring, and information about the benefits of marriage (#6); The economic stability components include: helping fathers improve their economic status by providing job search, job training, subsidized employment, and career advancement education (#1).
Organizational Description: The Community and Economic Development Association of Cook County, Inc. (CEDA) has as its mission, “To work in partnership with communities to empower families and individuals to achieve self-sufficiency and improve their quality of life.” CEDA has operated a Male Involvement Program for more than ten years. Activities have included a conference, workshops, and “Daddy Read-A-Thons”.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The goals of the project, include: providing couples with skilled-based marriage education to form and sustain healthy marriages; providing parents with information about he benefits of marriage and two-parent involvement for children; improving marital relationships via workshops, support groups, and counseling; providing workforce and economic development services to males to enhance work readiness skills; providing subsidized and unsubsidized placement services in career and/or demand driven industries; and providing incentives and support service to promote employment retention. Project curricula include: Within Our Reach/PREP Curriculum; African American Family Life Education; and Alpha and Omega Marriage Program
| Name of Grantee: | City of Chicago |
| Federal Project Officer: | Seledia Shephard (202) 401-5722 |
| Target Population: | Fathers and expectant fathers, including teens and young adults, in the Englewood and Uptown communities whose female partners are receiving case management and other services |
| Federal Award Amount: | $500,000/year |
| Program Name: | Promoting Responsible Fatherhood |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
2 (two or more allowable activities) |
Allowable Activities: Responsible Parenting - skill-based parenting education (#1); and encouraging child support activities (#5). The economic stability components include: helping fathers improve their economic status by providing job training and placement (#1); and offering financial planning that encompasses budgeting (#4).
Organizational Description: City of Chicago, Department of Public Health (CDPH) is the public health agency for the nation’s largest city. It has a workforce of over 1,200 employees and implements a broad range of public health activities and programs including communicable disease control, women and children’s health, and mental health.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Increase fathers’ involvement in the lives of their children through structured activities and individual and group counseling; improve fathers’ parenting skills; provide fathers’ with financial, educational, and career counseling services to improve economic status, including their ability to support their children; and promote responsible fatherhood to current and future fathers through peer programs.
| Name of Grantee: | Indiana Department of Correction |
| Federal Project Officer: | Charles Sutton (202) 401-5078 |
| Target Population: | All incarcerated fathers within IDOC regardless of race, age, disability or religious preference (sex offenders are excluded) |
| Federal Award Amount: | $250,000/year |
| Program Name: | The Fatherhood Program |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
3 (single activity) |
Allowable Activity Area: Responsible Parenting - Skill-based parenting (#1); Good parenting practices (#2); Counseling, mentoring and mediation (#3); and Domestic violence and child abuse (#4).
Organization Description: The Indiana Department of Correction is a community dedicated to improving and protecting lives in all communities within the State of Indiana. The mission of the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) is to maintain public safety and provide offenders with self improvement programs, job skills and family values in an efficient and cost effective manner for a successful return to the community as law-abiding citizens. As of July, 2006, the IDOC houses 22,404 male offenders within 19 adult facilities across Indiana.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: This program is a comprehensive parenting program for incarcerated fathers that encompass the “InsideOut Dad” parenting curriculum, “Baby Care Basics”, Caregiver Appreciation Month, the “Reading with Dad and Me”! program, and the Children’s Visitation Center program. During the first year of the project, IDOC anticipates that at least 250 offenders per facility (four facilities) will participate in some or all facets of The Fatherhood Program. The Fatherhood Program’s curriculum is designed to help inspire involved parenting, child development, communications skills, active parenting skills, healthy relationships, and successful re-entry. In the first year of the project, IDOC intends to offer 16 sessions of the 12-week “InsideOut Dad” program (15 fathers per session) and four Baby Care Basics sessions (10 fathers per session). Additionally, approximately 50 fathers per facility will participate in the “Reading with Dad and Me!” program while approximately 200 fathers per facility will participate in the Children’s Visitation Center.
| Name of Grantee: | Indiana Department of Correction |
| Federal Project Officer: | Charles Sutton (202) 401-5078 |
| Target Population: | Fathers who are currently under criminal justice supervision within IDOC facilities and their partners. |
| Federal Award Amount: | $400,000/year |
| Program Name: | Promoting Responsible Fatherhood |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
5 (any of the 3 activity areas) |
Allowable Activity Areas: Healthy Marriage - Skill-based marriage education (#1); Enhancing relationship skills (#5); Counseling, mentoring, benefits to children (#6); Controlling aggressive behavior (#7); Responsible Parenting - Skills-based parenting (#1); Good parenting practices (#2); Counseling, mentoring and mediation (#3); Domestic Violence and child abuse (#4).
Organization Description: The Indiana Department of Correction is a community dedicated to improving and protecting lives in all communities within the State of Indiana. The mission of the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) is to maintain public safety and provide offenders with self improvement programs, job skills and family values in an efficient and cost effective manner for a successful return to the community as law-abiding citizens. As of July, 2006, the IDOC housed 22,404 male offenders within 19 adult facilities across Indiana.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: IDOC plans to use funds from the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Grant Program to implement the PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program). PREP is a well respected and empirically based divorce-prevention/marriage strengthening program. This project will aid an estimated 780 couples develop the necessary skills to say what they need to each other and get to the core of their problems.
| Name of Grantee: | Indiana Youth Institute |
| Federal Project Officer: | Tanya Howell (202) 205-8714 |
| Target Population: | Teenage Fathers, incarcerated fathers, fathers of children w/disabilities, addicted fathers, or divorced parents. |
| Federal Award Amount: | $999,000/year |
| Program Name: | Indiana Youth Institute (IYI) |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
Allowable Activities: Responsible Parenting
Organization Description: The Indiana Youth Institute (IYI) is a private non-profit agency established in 1988, whose mission is to promote the healthy development of children and youth. IYI has served more than 12,000 youth workers and youth advocates with 24 programs that provide technical assistance, training, information and research, networking, and community linkage, with a focus on building effectiveness in serving youth.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Indiana Youth Institute (IYI) proposes an innovative project to promote responsible fatherhood in five Indiana communities. IYI will identify and coordinate with five community coalitions of small faith-based and community partnering organizations that will deliver direct services. The allowable activity for the five communities will focus on Responsible Parenting. IYI will require the following project elements; Fatherhood symposiums, a National Fatherhood Initiative community mobilization workshop, development of a community action plan as well as deliver direct services to a variety of parent audiences.
| Name of Grantee: | Baraga Houghton Keweenaw Child Development Board, Inc. |
| Federal Project Officer: | Charles Sutton (202) 401-5078 |
| Target Population: | Fathers of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds with a special focus on expectant and new fathers and fathers of children ages newborn to five |
| Federal Award Amount: | $250,000/year |
| Program Name: | Fathers-To-Dads |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
3 (single activity) |
Allowable Activity Area: Responsible Parenting - Skill-based parenting (#1); Good parenting practices (#2); Counseling, mentoring and mediation (#3); and Domestic violence and child abuse awareness (#4).
Organization Description: The Baraga Houghton Keweenaw Child Development Board (BKH) has a 32 year history of providing effective human services through federal, state and private funding. Most services are educational in nature, addressing critical needs identified through a thorough annual community needs assessment process. The agency serves more than 700 families and 1,500 children at more than two dozen locations across the three-county area.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Fathers-to-Dads project will provide an innovative blend of educational and supportive services, including 1,700 home visits per year, four Dad’s Group activities per month, an average of three monthly father-child-family field trips and special events, one-on-one counseling and mentoring and an ongoing system of referrals to additional services as needed.
| Name of Grantee: | Oakland Family Services |
| Federal Project Officer: | Barbara Spoor (202) 401-4724 |
| Target Population: | Fathers of children birth to seventeen with developmental delays/disabilities in Oakland County, Michigan |
| Federal Award Amount: | $200,193/year |
| Program Name: | Fathers’ Resource Center |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
3 (single activity) |
Allowable Activity: Responsible Parenting - skill-based parenting education (#1); disseminating parenting practices information (#2); counseling, mentoring, and mediation (#3); disseminating information on the causes of domestic violence and child abuse (#4); and encouraging child support activities (#5).
Organization Description: The Father’s Resource Center (FRC) has been in operation since 1995. Since its inception the Resource Center has served over 2,000 men and their children. Fathers receive education and support within confidential group settings and engage in staff-guided father-child interactive activities which aid fathers to bond, attach and nurture their children. Fathers are provided with individual supportive counseling and case management.
Use of ACF Program Grant Funds: The purpose of the project is to strengthen fathers’ relationship and connections to their children and families. The Father’s Resource Center will link the Oakland Family Services’ Lekotek® program with the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, which is a nationally recognized evidence-based fatherhood program. Together the programs will provide services to 612 fathers of children with delay or disability over the five year course of the project. The Lekotek® program which includes a toy lending library designed especially for children with special needs, parent education, disability information and referrals to additional services. In the responsible fatherhood group, fathers and their children will discover toys and activities that will accommodate the child’s delay or disability which can improve the child’s development. The whole family will have the opportunity to use the Lekotek® Toy Lending library.
| Name of Grantee: | Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency |
| Federal Project Officer: | Seledia Shephard (202) 401- 5722 |
| Target Population: | Unemployed Fathers (in Highland Park & Hamtramck) |
| Federal Award Amount: | $250,000/year |
| Program Name: | Fathers Forward Program |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
3 (one allowable activity area) |
Allowable Activities: Economic Stability - work services, job search and training, educations (#1); financial planning and household management (#4).
Organization Description: Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency was established in 1971 to address the needs of low-income individuals and families. The agency is a multi-service, multi-funded human services agency. The four areas of services focus on Homeless Programs, Community Support Services, Community Development and Youth and Family Services.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The grantee will implement the Fathers Forward program which is an intensive employment, training, and personal finance education program designed to foster the economic stability of fathers. The program will provide these services in a pro-participation atmosphere that is father-friendly and service-oriented. They expect to serve 75 fathers over the first year.
| Name of Grantee: | Community Action Agency |
| Federal Project Officer: | Seledia Shephard (202) 401- 5722 |
| Target Population: | All Jackson/Hillsdale Counties low-income couples |
| Federal Award Amount: | $203,854/year |
| Program Name: | Community Action Agency |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
3 (one allowable activity area) |
Allowable Activities: Healthy Marriage-skills based marriage education (#1); enhancing relationship skills (#5).
Organization Description: The Community Action Agency is a private, non-profit agency that opened its doors in 1965. The Agency provides drug and alcohol counseling, health education, prenatal care, and is now part of a pilot program with Early Head Start, a program working with families with infants/toddlers, as well as pregnant woman.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The Community Action Agency project will provide a total of eight (8), relationship/marriage skills groups. The skills groups will be conducted weekly for 1.5 hours, lasting eight (8) weeks each in both Jackson and Hillsdale Counties utilizing the PREP, Inc. “Within My Reach” Relationship skills building curriculum. Program participants will be provided the ongoing opportunity to attend refresher classes provided between group cycles. The project will serve forty-eight (48) couples over the 5 years.
| Name of Grantee: | Detroit Workforce Development Department |
| Federal Project Officer: | Seledia Shephard (202) 401- 5722 |
| Target Population: | 100 Unemployed and low-income fathers in Detroit |
| Federal Award Amount: | $500,000/year |
| Program Name: | Promoting Responsible Fatherhood: Detroit One-Stop Fatherhood Project |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
4 (one allowable activity) |
Allowable Activities: Economic Stability - helping fathers improve their economic status by providing job search, job training, subsidized employment, and career advancement education (#1).
Organizational Description: The Detroit Workforce Development Department (DWDD) is one of twenty-five workforce development agencies in Michigan. The Department has administered employment and training programs since 1975; and oversees four of the State’s one-stop career centers and one satellite service center providing career development programs to youth and adults in Detroit. Funding for the agencies is made available by the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth and the U.S. Department of Labor.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The project will support economic stability for parents and children through: subsidized employment programs; vocational and on the job training (OJT); and increase financial support for children.
| Name of Grantee: | Oakland Livingston Human Services Agency (OLHSA) |
| Federal Project Officer: | Charles Sutton (202) 401-5078 |
| Target Population: | Incarcerated & newly released fathers and fathers on probation or parole |
| Federal Award Amount: | $368,555/year |
| Program Name: | Focus on Families (FOF) Project |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
5 (any of the 3 activity areas) |
Allowable Activities: Healthy Marriage - Skill-based marriage education (#1); Enhancing relationship skills (#5); Counseling, mentoring, benefits to children (#6); Controlling aggressive behavior (#7); Responsible Parenting - Skills-based parenting (#1); Good parenting practices (#2); Counseling, mentoring and mediation (#3); Domestic Violence and child abuse (#4).
Organization Description: For the past several years, OLHSA has been at the forefront of working to establish key partnerships, create meaningful programs, and lay the groundwork necessary to launch a continuum of care to serve the needs of incarcerated parents and their children and families. The Child and Family Services Division of OLHSA operates three separate programs and is integrally involved in a state-wide Michigan Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The overall goal of the project is to create an effective, outcome-driven, research-based marriage/relationship and family-strengthening program designed to: 1) assist low-income families with multiple barriers who are impacted by parental incarceration; 2) organize community to support incarcerated parents and their children/families; 3) create safer neighborhoods by supporting families dealing with parental incarceration; 4) improve parental relationships; and 5) reduce the rate of recidivism. The objectives of this project are to: 1) Create a seamless, multiple-entry, open-ended program to recruit and service 100 families through parenting and relationship awareness classes, couples counseling, support groups, crisis interventions, and additional relationship/family-strengthening activities; 2) Ensure that all program participants work with a “Systems Navigator” to assist them in linking up with appropriate services in the community; 3) Take a lead role in establishing necessary partnerships with community agencies, businesses, stakeholders, Corrections officials, Friends of the court, etc.; and 4) Effectively assess program development and outcomes at a every integral step to ensure best-practices and lessons learned.
| Name of Grantee: | RESOURCE, Incorporated |
| Federal Project Officer: | Barbara Spoor (202) 401-4724 |
| Target Population: | Low income unemployed or underemployed non- custodial Fathers (Minneapolis and St. Paul) |
| Federal Award Amount: | $250,000/year |
| Program Name: | Men in the Making |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
3 (single activity) |
Allowable Activities: Economic Stability - helping fathers improve their economic status by providing job search, job training, subsidized employment, and career advancement education (#1); coordinating with existing employment services (#2); disseminating employment materials (#3); and offering financial planning that encompasses household management, banking, and/or budgeting (#4).
Organization Description: RESOURCE is a multi-faceted social service organization founded in 1960 with a mission to empower people to achieve greater personal, social and economic success. RESOURCE has over 46 years of experience helping people sustain economic self-sufficiency as over 30 years of providing comprehensive education, family support and employment services to low-income youth, adults, and families.
Use of ACF Program Grant Funds: The purpose of the Men in the Making program is to provide comprehensive employment and training, job placement, assessments, remedial education, scholarships for short-term vocational training, job placement, and retention for 100 disadvantaged fathers in the first year. This program addresses economic stability. The program will provide parenting support (assistance with paternity, child support orders, custody and visitation, parenting and anger management classes) as well as basic job placement assistance.
| Name of Grantee: | Urban Ventures Leadership |
| Federal Project Officer: | Barbara Spoor (202) 401-4724 |
| Target Population: | Low Income young men 13-30 (African-American & Latino) |
| Federal Award Amount: | $250,000/year |
| Program Name: | Center for Fathering |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
3 (single activity) |
Allowable Activities: Responsible Parenting - skill-based parenting education (#1); disseminating parenting practices information (#2); counseling, mentoring, and mediation (#3); disseminating information on the causes of domestic violence and child abuse (#4); and encouraging child support activities (#5).
Organization Description: The Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation was established in 1993 by Art Erickson and Ralph Bruins. The Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation is all-encompassing social service agency in The Phillips and Central Neighborhoods of south Minneapolis. Over the last 35 years the foundation has successfully established a comprehensive vision to empower families by addressing the fundamental causes contributing to the demise of urban neighborhoods and then creating opportunities to encourage sustainable change.
Use of ACF Program Grant Funds: The project purpose is to help 400 young fathers in poor neighborhoods of Minneapolis to be responsible parents by providing programming that improves participants’ relations with their children and facilitates reconnections through the Center for Fathering program. Through the Center for Fathering program participants will address issues that are barriers to becoming more involved fathers, the program will provide parenting classes including special classes for Latino fathers and recently released inmates. In addition, the center will provide an Early Childhood Family education program for children of the participants and provide role-models for at-risk young men between the ages of 15-18 through the Elevations program at three inner-city high schools.
| Name of Grantee: | Minnesota Council on Crime and Justice, MN |
| Federal Project Officer: | Charles Sutton (202) 401-5078 |
| Target Population: | Incarcerated fathers who are married or in a committed relationship with a sentence of four years or less |
| Federal Award Amount: | $400,000/year |
| Program Name: | Our Family Strengthening Project |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
5 (any of the 3 activity areas) |
Allowable Activity Areas: Healthy Marriage - Skill-based marriage education (#1); Enhancing relationship skills (#5); Counseling, mentoring, benefits to children (#6); Controlling aggressive behavior (#7); Responsible Parenting - Skills-based parenting (#1); Good parenting practices (#2); Counseling, mentoring and mediation (#3); Domestic Violence and child abuse (#4); and Economic Stability - Work services, job search and training, education (#1); Employment training initiatives (#2); Employment materials (#3); and Financial planning and household management (#4).
Organization Description: The Council on Crime and Justice (CCJ) is an independent agency that has been providing innovative services to offenders and their families since 1957, and has provided services specifically designed to promote healthier family relationships in Minnesota DOC facilities since 1988. CCJ’s mission is “to build community capacity to address the causes and consequences of crime through research, demonstration and advocacy.”
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The “Our Family Strengthening Project” has an overall goal of Promoting Responsible Fatherhood in support of Healthy Marriage. In support of this goal, CJJ will: 1) Intervene early with families experiencing incarceration, to develop a plan for the entire family’s well-being throughout the sentence and upon release; 2) Strengthen commitment to marriage/relationships by building communication and conflict resolution skills; 3) Improve both parents’ ability to support their children through incarceration and upon release; and 4) Increase the family’s economic self-sufficiency. In Year 1, CJJ is expected to enroll 80 inmates and: a) create a handbook for families of incarcerated individuals; b) identify families for family wellness assessments; c) conduct family wellness assessment; d) offer couples/family counseling; e) offer marriage/relationship classes; f) offer parenting classes; g) offer financial literacy education; h) conduct pre-release planning sessions; i) provide follow-up case advocacy.
| Name of Grantee: | Goodwill Industries, Inc. |
| Federal Project Officer: | Seledia Shephard (202) 401-5722 |
| Target Population: | 872 low income fathers (over five years), particularly African American, Native American, and Latino, in Hennepin County |
| Federal Award Amount: | $500,000/year |
| Program Name: | Promoting Responsible Fatherhood |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
2 (two or more allowable activities) |
Allowable Activities: Responsible Parenting - skill-based parenting education (#1); and encouraging child support activities (#5). The economic stability components include: helping fathers improve their economic status by providing job search, job training, subsidized employment, and career advancement education (#1); and coordinating with existing employment services (#2).
Organizational Description: Goodwill Industries, Inc. is a 501(c) (3) organization employing 641 individuals including 90 professional staff in the Program Services Division with a mission to assist people with education, employment, and self reliance in achieving their goals.
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Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The following activities will be supported by this grant: reduce the barriers to education and employment; 2) increase long and short term economic self sufficiency; and 3) improve parenting skills. Activities include: life skills training, GED preparation, job placement, parenting groups. Project staff will implement the following curricula: Latino Parenting Education and Balancing Work and Family Curriculum; and the G/ESM Employment Readiness Training Curriculum.
| Name of Grantee: | WSOS Community Action Commission, Inc. |
| Federal Project Officer: | Charles Sutton (202) 401-5078 |
| Target Population: | Young fathers, including expectant, low-income individuals, disabled fathers, fathers with disabled children, non-custodial fathers, incarcerated fathers and ex-felons |
| Federal Award Amount: | $249,492/year |
| Program Name: | “FamilyWorks” |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
3 (single activity) |
Allowable Activity Area: Economic Stability - Work services, job search and training, education (#1); Employment training initiatives (#2); Employment materials (#3); and Financial planning and household management (#4).
Organizational Description: WSOS Community Action Commission, Inc. is a community based 501(c)(3) corporation with a 41 year history of providing comprehensive community and family development services in helping families become self sufficient and in administrating a seven state network of rural training and technical assistance.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: This project will focus on 120 fathers with diverse backgrounds interested in strengthening their family unit and creating a healthy, stable family. Activities include skill-based parenting education, disseminating information about good parenting practices, work ethic training, housing counseling, job placement, and job maintenance. Fathers will also be given the opportunities to learn and apply life skills relations to problem solving, relationship building, conflict resolution, and budgeting.
| Name of Grantee: | Lighthouse Youth Services, Inc. |
| Federal Project Officer: | Seledia Shephard (202) 401-5722 |
| Target Population: | 120 men ages 17-24 in arrears with child support payments |
| Federal Award Amount: | $500,000/year |
| Program Name: | Promoting Responsible Fatherhood: Lighthouse Skills for Young Father’s Program |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
4 (one allowable activity) |
Allowable Activities: Economic Stability - helping fathers improve their economic status by providing job search, job training, subsidized employment, and career advancement education (#1).
Organizational Description: Lighthouse Youth Services was established in 1969 to develop and maintain programs that assist youth, young adults, and their families to overcome barriers to self-sufficiency. Services are also provided for homeless and runaway youth.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: To increase the financial support of and involvement with their children; and increase economic stability by strengthening employment skills, familiarity with, and access to paid work. The following curricula will be used to achieve project goals: Ansell-Casey Life Skills and MDRC Responsible Fatherhood.
| Name of Grantee: | The RIDGE Project |
| Federal Project Officer: | Charles Sutton (202) 401-5078 |
| Target Population: | Incarcerated and formerly incarcerated fathers and their partners in NW Ohio |
| Federal Award Amount: | $400,000/year |
| Program Name: | “Bringing FAITH” & “Keeping FAITH” |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
5 (any of the 3 activity areas) |
Allowable Activity Areas: Healthy Marriage - Skill-based marriage education (#1); Enhancing relationship skills (#5); Counseling, mentoring, benefits to children (#6); Controlling aggressive behavior (#7); Responsible Parenting - Skills-based parenting (#1); Good parenting practices (#2); Counseling, mentoring and mediation (#3); Domestic Violence and child abuse (#4).
Organization Description: The RIDGE Project, a nonprofit community-based organization, provides a broad range of services in thirteen NW Ohio counties to over 40,000 individuals with over 100,000 units of service each year. The focus of this organization is youth and family development and strengthening. The mission of the RIDGE Project is to provide youth and families with the education and information to allow them to reach their highest potential.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: The “Bringing FAITH” and “Keeping FAITH” programs are designed to reinforce the importance of two-parent families amongst incarcerated and formerly incarcerated fathers and their partners. The goals of the project are to: 1) Strengthen Marriages of Incarcerated Fathers; 2) Strengthen Families of Incarcerated Fathers; and 3) Equip fathers who are or have been with the criminal justice system with parenting, communication and relationship-building skills. This project will include: 1) offer marriage education & marriage strengthening/mentoring components; 2) promote fathering behind bars and parenting upon re-entry; and 3) offer overall family growth enhancement programs. This comprehensive project will provide services in local communities as well as on prison campuses with the goal of reducing inmate divorce rates and improving spousal and father/child relationships. The RIDGE Project will have access to over 9,000 inmates per year solely through their partnership with Correctional Center of Northwest Ohio (CCNO).
| Name of Grantee: | Rosalie Manor Community and Family Services, Inc. |
| Federal Project Officer: | Seledia Shephard (202) 401-5722 |
| Target Population: | 1,200 low income, urban fathers in Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha |
| Federal Award Amount: | $500,000/year |
| Program Name: | Promoting Responsible Fatherhood |
| Project Period: | 9/30/2006-9/29/2011 |
| Priority Area: |
2 (two or more allowable activities) |
Allowable Activities: Responsible Parenting - skill-based parenting education (#1); disseminating parenting practices information (#2); and mentoring (#3). The economic stability components include: helping fathers improve their economic status by providing employment preparation workshops (#1).
Organizational Description: Rosalie Manor in a non-profit organization that provides youth development, support to teen families, and abstinence initiatives; as well as training to school, faith-based, and community agencies.
Use(s) of ACF Program Grant Funds: Provide parenting education to 300 fathers; host a series of 10 responsible fatherhood activities; provide one-on-one mentoring services to 100 high risk fathers; conduct four employment presentation workshops; conduct marking and outreach campaign. The 20 lesson Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum will be used to support project activities.
