Community Capacity Building Plan

Services

Programs

1. Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP, Mini-Grants).

The organization is funded by federal, private, and charity organizations, with a pass-through community family service agency. The funds are used in the implementation of Home Instruction For Parents Of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY). HIPPY teaches the parents to train their children and build their confidence and skills before they start school. The organization has community service centers (CSC) that provide technical assistance that helps build grantees' capacity, expand and strengthen community partnership among residents, providers, and partners in the region. The organization targets the children and families vulnerable and needs assistance to ensure children's safety, stability in families, and the community's general wellbeing.

2. Community-Based Child Well-Being Services.

CSC provides support to the families that help in achieving their safety, permanency, and wellbeing goals. With the help of CFSA, the organization offers a community based child-welfare services program based on needs to provide support and unite the children and families. Through CSC, the organization also includes a network of support that helps families prevent a child's wellbeing crisis.

3. Family Rehousing Stabilization Program (FRSP) Rapid Rehousing.

FRSP is a government-funded program that offers rental assistance in the short term to those experiencing homelessness. In addition, the organization, through CSC, provides the community members with services of how to handle housing cases, teach the homeless house maintenance skills like how to effectively settle for rent and bills on time, how to communicate with the landlord effectively, and any necessary referrals to assist in stabilizing families.

4. Parenting Education & Support Program (PESP).

With the help of CFSA through CSC, the organization offers parent education in individual or group settings when requested by the parents. This program helps to educate parents about family and child care. From this program, referrals are made to other CSC programs as required, including case management, Truancy, WFD, and FGC. This program also provides a community workshop for the general public to train for basic technical skills.

5. Progressive  Employment Program  (PEP),

The organization provides employed youths in a 15 weeks PEP program and job placements, mainly male youths. This helps to reduce poverty, idleness, and immorality, Family-oriented strength-based case management, follow-up support to facilitate job retention, and more pertinent services through a referral that comes with services offered at CSC. This helps the organization to provide a wide range of services to the community.

6. Rapid Rehousing  Homeless Youth

In partnership with the DHS, the organization helps the youth of age gap 18-24 years with services like a house acquiring procedure to maintain and retain the place and housing case management and referrals. This is done through youth seminars and training initiatives in community service centers. This program helps the youth to ensure and establish independent living.

7. Safe Home, Safe  Families 

The organization engages in safe homes and a safe families program; this program helps house the homeless and precariously housed individuals. In addition, the organization builds housing that helps settles these vulnerable citizens. The organization also came up with initiatives that help to reduce the causes of homelessness, such as poverty and gang violence. This helps to provide safety in homes and families.

8.  Soccer Youth  Diversion Program

To keep the youth off the streets. The organization is engaged in childhood, particularly males, in soccer youth diversion initiatives. In addition, the organization organizes football tournaments using the high school health curriculum (HSHC). This program also provides the youths with a wide range of other life skills through CSC. This program helps the child to identify their talents, skills, be actively engaged, and keep them away from drug abuse.

9. Success in Reentry  (SIR)

With the help of the Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants (OVSJG), the organization facilitates successful reentry of incarcerated persons back to the community after their prison term is over. The organization puts a lot of emphasis on women, their children, and children caregivers. The organization accomplishes this program by providing healing cycles and family group conferences (FGCs), and child monitoring groups that help reenter the community. In addition, the organization oleo offers support services such as educational sessions, advocacy, and case management with a target of not more than 30 women per year. This program helps the community and the ones from the prison to co-exist hormonally in the community.

10.  Truancy / SUSO

The help of SUSO and OVSJG helps students who have five or more unexcused absences from school. The organization provides these students with wraparound services to help them, their families, and school address factors that hinder them from regularly attending school. The organization accomplishes this by creating awareness and outreach about the importance of education to students and families, the identification, intake, and enrollment of this affected student. Also, the organization offers multi-tiered individualized services to families through case management and home visiting family strengthening and parenting workshops and training. This service helps to accommodate parent’s availability and commitments in addressing issues that impend school attendance.

11. Violence Intervention  Services

With the help of the Organized Network of Services for Everyone (ONSE), the organization provides violence intervention services and initiatives. The organization engages the community through violence interception and interruption, community engagement, critical incident protocol, school-based education, and peacekeeping. In addition, the organization organizes incident meetings with community members, cooldown activities that help the community to build collective efficacy and heal from violence.

12.  Youth Gang  Intervention

With the help of the Office Of Juvenile And Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), the organization provides a youth gang intervention program. This program is focused on decreasing gang violence incidences, violence escalation, and retaliatory violence by intercepting, interrupting, and preventing potential youth gang violence. The organization's program activities include: engaging the community through violence interception and interruption, community engagement, critical incident protocol, school-based educational and peacekeeping, and sports like soccer that help youths divert from gang involvement. In addition, the organization coordinates with multi-agency gang intervention, private sectors, law enforcers, and other community organizations to accomplish this program.

13. Youth Gang  Suppression

With the help (OJJDP), the organization provides youth gang suppression and violence diversion services and program. This program is focused on suppressing youth gangs. The organization program activities include: engaging the community through violence interception and interruption, community engagement, critical incident protocol, school-based education. In addition, the organization organizes incident meetings with community members, cooldown activities that help the community to build collective efficacy and heal from violence.