Crisis Intervention and Prevention

1 9.10.21 Crisis Intervention and Prevention Application

Please limit your proposal and responses to spaces provided in this form. Responses to this RFP should be complete and comprehensive but succinct. Materials submitted in addition to this application form will not be considered in the evaluation of the proposal.

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Legal Name of Organization:

Families and Schools Together Total Amount Requested:

$ 40,000

Priority Area: Prevention Services and Activities

Program or Activity are you Applying for

☐ Crisis Intervention Services: 24 Hour Services

☐ Crisis Intervention Services: Shelter Services

☐ Recovery and Stabilization Services: Resource Service Facilitation and Case Management

☐ Recovery and Stabilization Services: Youth Restorative Justice

☐ Recover and Stabilization Services: Restorative Court

☐ Prevention Services and Activities: General Information

☒ Prevention Services and Activities: Specialized Program Support

Contact Person: Molly McGowan Email: [email protected]

Crisis Intervention and Prevention APPLICATION FORM

Submit Application to: [email protected]

Deadline: 12:00 pm CST (noon) on October 22, 2021 Official submission date and time will be based on the time stamp from the CDD

Applications inbox. Late applications will not be accepted

mailto:[email protected]




Address: 2801 International Ln Suite 212 Madison, WI 53704

Telephone: 608-663-2382

Agency Profile: 1. Describe the history and current structure of your organization and speak to the diversity of your staff.

Families & Schools Together, Inc. is a Madison-based non-profit with a mission to nurture the inherent potential of every child by uniting families, schools, and communities. With a small but mighty team of 7 staff, our organization coordinates the training and support, provides evaluation, and serves as the international headquarters for the FAST Program, working with our partners across Dane County, around the state and broadly across the country and world. We provide training for new teams, technical assistance, host training conferences, certify trainers, and convene opportunities for connection, sharing of strategies and resources across all of our partners and sites. FAST recognizes the importance of having program staff represent the community in which it is serving. In fact, this is a required component within the program itself: the FAST team must represent the community it serves across race, ethnicity, and language spoken, and must be from the local community. FAST also contracts with diverse Trainers to train the representative teams. A majority of our trainers, both nationally and locally, identify as BIPOC, and we have trainers who are bilingual speakers of Spanish and English. We are intentional about the trainers that we contract with, ensuring that we can match Trainers to the communities they will be training for race, ethnicity, and language spoken. We have both national and local trainers who are African American and Latino, as well as bilingual (which will serve our new Lighthouse partnership). The goal of the FAST Program is to build protective factors while children are young and parenting is often most challenging so that the entire family will have a more robust foundation for their future success. FAST partners with community-based organizations and schools to implement social work practices with an equity-focused lens to family engagement programming. FAST is evidence-based, and has been shown to “set the stage” to both prevent and reduce the incidences of violence among children, and to increase children's mental, social and emotional well-being and school readiness. Initially developed in 1988, the FAST Program helps children thrive by building stronger, more supportive relationships at home. Built on evidence-based practices and rigorously tested, the FAST Program consistently produces improvements while building lasting relationships among families, schools, and communities. FAST has earned a place on several evidence-based lists including the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), National Dropout Prevention Center/Network, and the National Institute of Justice, among others. We partner with schools and community organizations that primarily serve BIPOC communities. The Lighthouse community is 60% Latino and 30% African American, and 90% of the school qualifies for free and reduced lunch. Goodman Community Center serves a diverse community, from young children through older adults, providing many programs that benefit those living in poverty, and families from a wide variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. For their child and youth participants, 44% identify as Black, 32% white, 16% two or more races, 14% identify as Hispanic/Latino 4% Asian, 1% Indigenous American/Alaskan Native, and around 60% qualify for free or reduced school meals. FAST at Goodman Community Center will expand on their highly-regarded early childhood and after-school programs to serve preschool and elementary-aged children, and their families more broadly. We also contract with the Indian Community School in Milwaukee, our longest continually running Wisconsin program, to serve their Native students and families through FAST.


In 2019, FAST hired Toni Rivera as executive Director. Ms. Rivera, a Latina, who brought an abundance of diverse experience to FAST, most recently serving as President and CEO of Centro Hispano Milwaukee. Former roles also include positions with the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, during which she worked on the nationally recognized violence prevention and intervention program, Project Ujima. Under Ms. Rivera’s leadership, FAST has strengthened program diversity and commitment, significantly increased the number of diverse partners we work with, and strengthened and diversified the FAST Board. Through her work we have added programs in Madison’s most diverse areas.

2. Describe how your agency builds relationships and authentically engages with individuals and households served. Specifically include information on previous strategies used to authentically engage with BIPOC, LGBTQ+, immigrant and/or individuals, households, and low income neighborhoods. Over the last few years, under the leadership of our new Executive Director, Toni Rivera, our organization has been working to rebuild our program’s presence in our local community of Madison and Dane County, focusing, with an equity lens, on building relationships and partnerships with schools and communities most in need, specifically families of color and those living in poverty. The FAST Program requires FAST Teams at each school to be locally-based and representative of families served across race, ethnicity, and language spoken. Our organization recognizes that each community has its own strengths, local context and knowledge and that no one is more equipped to build relationships and provide support to families participating, than those from the community. It is our role to help schools and community organizations convene a group of local, representative individuals - both with lived and professional experience - and to provide the training needed to implement the FAST model. FAST Teams make an intentional effort to include, through respectful coaching and representative teams, families of color, those living in poverty, LBGTQ+ families, families with disabled individuals, as well as those speaking multiple or varied languages. Each FAST Team member must sign a formal agreement, during training, to uphold the values of the program, one of which specifically names the adverse effects of racism, sexism, and poverty, and the most important of which, that all parents love their children and want a better life for them. Through respectful, culturally-relevant coaching, the FAST Team supports parents to build connections and increase their power through the program. While FAST can be run in any community, it was developed around social justice and community organizing theories, which ultimately work to build power among unreached parents, families, and the community. FAST does not teach parents how to be “better” parents, but rather recognizes the inherent knowledge of parents (which is often undercut or ignored) and empowers families together, with the school and community, to support children. Because the program is facilitated by local parents, families participating receive respectful, culturally-relevant coaching and support that is not degrading or devaluing and is locally specific. Families & Schools Together has always believed that families are central and critical to the educational performance of children, and we view families as active and equal participants in the work we do. Rather than just relegating families to fill prescribed roles or to participate in school-driven activities (back-to-school nights, bake sales), we see parents as the primary teachers of their children and recognize and honor the knowledge they bring to the table. As Barton et al (2004) found, traditional parent involvement approaches often overlook some of the ways marginalized parents participate in their children’s education because they do not correspond with the assumed notions of family engagement. FAST, however, acknowledges the importance of empowering parents. It engages parents on the implementation team, empowers parents as the leaders of their family, and provides opportunities for parents to build relationships with one another, and build power at the family level.


3. How is your agency linguistically responsive to populations served? The FAST Program requires FAST Teams at each school to be locally-based and representative of families served across race, ethnicity, and language spoken. Specifically for families who speak multiple languages, or whose primary language is not English, it is critical to have Team Members who can not only speak the language of the families, but also relate to specific cultural norms and traditions. Furthermore, when assigning a Trainer for a particular team, the FAST Office works with the site to identify a Trainer who will be most closely aligned with their teams and families across race, ethnicity, and language spoken. Families from marginalized communities often feel unwelcome, powerless, and unheard in their children’s schools (Yull et al, 2018). Parents from culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse backgrounds are often made to feel that they or their parenting skills are “lacking” (Lawrence-Lightfoot, 2004) and that the school wants to teach or fix them (Gabriel et al, 2017). However, our approach to family engagement differs from this in significant ways, through our focus on engaging all families in family engagement programming and by specifically serving children and families of color, through equity-informed educational and programming approaches. FAST avoids the pitfalls of other approaches to engaging marginalized communities. Specifically on this project, we anticipate that Lighthouse may want a bilingual trainer, and so we will work with their team to find the right fit.

4. Briefly describe your agency or group’s connection to relevant systems, collaborations, and networks. What is your group/agency’s role and how long have you been in this role? Families & Schools Together partners with both local, community-based organizations, as well as directly with schools to implement our programming. Our role is to assist schools to identify local, representative teams of parents, school staff, and mental health and other community professionals, to whom our office will provide the training, technical assistance, and support, for teams to thrive and to operate independently and sustainably, moving forward. During the early stages of COVID we made a strategic decision to expand our programming -- FAST counters so much of the negative impact of the pandemic, from isolation to despair. FAST went virtual so it created a place where children and families could be together during quarantine. This required us to greatly broaden the partners we are working with, which now includes key leaders like Dr. Jack Daniels, Jessica Cavazos, Oscar Mireles, the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, Madison Community Foundation, Cuna Mutual Foundation, M3 Insurance, Madison Rotary, WEA Trust, WEAC, among others. Specifically for this project, we have engaged in several conversations with leadership at Lighthouse Christian School (Marcio Sierra, Jr., Senior Pastor and Tia Sierra, School Principal) as well as Goodman Center Leadership (Letesha Nelson CEO/Executive Director, Heidi Deininger, COO, Dewayne Powell, Senior Director of Business Services). We are also working with our legislators on a local, state and federal level to help raise awareness of the impact FAST can make at such a crucial time in our community.

5. How does your agency support staff to pursue professional development? Executive Director Toni Rivera is highly committed to her staff. As a woman, a Latina, a full-time working single mother of two, one of whom has special needs, she recognizes that people, many of whom are like her, are often left out of professional development opportunities. It is a core of her philosophy as a leader. FAST staff regularly attend conferences (primarily virtual) on a range of topics, including family engagement, community schools, multi-language learners, fatherhood, among others. FAST Staff frequently share information with one another, and occasionally with our broader FAST Community, about weekly webinars hosted by local governments, other non-profits, universities, and others, to keep on top of current issues, challenges, and solutions. When feasible, FAST can help cover costs for staff to take classes related to their positions, to help further their knowledge and experience.


FAST staff also have an opportunity to work with the community leaders/partners of the local FAST program at each site. We know that opportunities often arise through meeting people as opposed to formal training. Our team is engaged with social workers, mental health professionals, industry leaders and public officials the same as the CEO does. In addition, we encourage participation in volunteer community activities so our team can be seen in the community. such as volunteering on supply drives, attending cultural events, and other activities designed to inform and engage our diverse community.

6. How does your agency collect and protect client/participant data? Program evaluation is critical to long-term program success and effectiveness. In every program and every site, parents, teachers, youth, and team members complete surveys before and after the program which enable them to provide feedback. Data is collected by teams, and our office processes and creates a report for each team to review. All family participants are given ID numbers and all data is collected using their family ID. Code keys are kept separate from the data and only the Evaluation Manager has access to the code keys. Program surveys are administered to every program participant via an online survey tool; participants are asked for their family ID so the program can match their pre and post answers. Teacher name, student name, and family ID are used to manage survey administration only; individual responses are reported in aggregate and not associated with a specific student or teacher. FAST does not keep identifying information such as name, email address or IP address. All data is stored in a password protected electronic format.

Program Profile:

7. Describe your program or activity. The evidence-based FAST program aims to increase protective factors like family cohesion, parental self-efficacy, and social connectedness, which reduce family stress and support mental health. Building off our 30 year history, we are expanding in Madison to serve more children and families. In addition to our three current Madison sites, we are expanding to new sites including Lighthouse Christian School and the Goodman Center. Over the next year, we will expand to Lighthouse Christian and Goodman Community Center, running 2 cycles at each site; each site will serve about 120 people/year/site for a total of 240 people served, including children and their parents/family members. The FAST Program is designed to be administered ongoing, to reach new families, each year; training is conducted around the first cycle, and once the team is trained they can continue running the program without the trainer, which helps build local capacity and program sustainability. For each year, these two sites could continue to serve an additional 240 individuals. During FAST, families gather weekly at the school/community organization to participate in research-based activities - families eat and play communication-focused activities together, parents talk as a group and share experiences and challenges, and parents and children have one-on-one time. The program can also be run virtually. Our organization builds capacity at the local level for family engagement and family strengthening by providing training to teams of parents, educators, and community professionals that are representative across race, ethnicity, language spoken. FAST uses an equity-centered approach, recognizing the inherent knowledge of parents and bringing families together with the school and community, to support kids. FAST is aimed at children and communities of color, families with socioeconomic needs or other disadvantages. The whole family is invited to attend FAST; children, their parents, siblings, grandparents and others benefit from the program. Teams of local parents, school and community partners are trained by FAST to administer the program, creating community-ingrained knowledge and capacity. Through experiential learning, family activities, and coaching


parents to do ‘responsive play’ each week, the potential effects of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) are mitigated. FAST provides safe, predictable, and nurturing environments to enhance the child’s well-being and empower parents. FAST is foundational; our schools see increased participation in other programs offered after running FAST. The program builds key relationships needed so families are empowered to advocate for the services they need, and for what their children need for the best education, for years to come. The FAST program also helps connect families to needed resources available in the community. Throughout the program, families become empowered and build relationships with the FAST team, and informal referrals frequently take place (especially through community professionals, who often have a mental health and/or substance abuse prevention background). Families can and frequently do seek services, resources, and information from trusted sources, such as counseling for themselves or their children, substance abuse treatment or support, or other needs, instead of having to navigate blindly. Furthermore, both parents are empowered throughout the program, and thus feel more confident to advocate for themselves and their families - in the school and in their community.

8. What are the program or activity’s goals? The purpose of FAST is to build strength between children and their caregivers, families, and their schools so that children can perform at their highest capacity academically and families can thrive amongst the community in which they live. It is targeted specifically to underserved and socioeconomically disadvantaged primarily Black, Latino and First Nation peoples. Our record strongly demonstrates this. The FAST Program works towards three ultimate goals: to strengthen families and enhance positive parent-child relationships, strengthen child and family’s feelings of school connectedness, and to strengthen the connections of children and parents to their community to help reduce stress. By focusing on goals at the family, school, and community levels, the FAST Program builds a web of support around participating children and families, strengthening their relationships with one another as well as with other participating families and the school itself. In this way, FAST supports the whole family’s mental and emotional health - creating an environment where families feel comfortable reaching out for support, and through which they can seek referrals to additional mental health or other services. FAST at the elementary school level allows for parents and the school to build a strong, collaborative relationship early in the life of the child. Families have the opportunity to spend time in the school, to feel more comfortable moving through the hallways, and to begin to feel belonging within the school community. This helps to foster those stronger family-school partnerships that can help reduce achievement- and opportunity-gaps for students of color. Because the whole family is included, many families participating will have children who are older or younger (siblings) who will also benefit by participating, thereby increasing impact beyond elementary-aged children. At the family level, FAST provides the social infrastructure for reducing the cortisol and stress levels of young children who may experience trauma and stress at home. When FAST activities with the family take place, it helps the child feel that the building is a safe haven, and they can relax. The FAST program has been shown to increase family and child access to mental health agencies, especially among previously struggling families and children, and FAST teams frequently include mental health professionals in the program. FAST can have a dramatic impact on parents. It is not uncommon for parents who complete FAST to become part of parent/governance councils/groups at their schools, and many have gone back to school to achieve their degrees.

9. What are your expected service hours and location? Describe the frequency and duration of services (i.e. hours, days, months). In addition to program operation hours please include hours spent on planning, supervision, and staff meetings.


FAST is an 8-week program, run twice a year where families gather together at the site once per week for about 2.5 hours. The day of the week and the time of day are determined by the team. For families participating through Lighthouse Christian School, they will gather together at the school for 2.5 hours once per week for 8 consecutive weeks. For Goodman, families will gather together at their community center, for the same amount of time. Each cycle will serve 10-15 new families, as families transition into the follow-up program FASTWORKS, which helps families maintain the relationships and connections built during the intensive 8-week cycle. Typically the first cycle will be held March through April, and the second October through November, but of course start dates are up to the discretion of the teams. Team members will need to be present for all the family sessions. They will also have a larger commitment around recruiting and planning. Family recruitment usually takes place over a period of 4 - 5 weeks preceding the start of the family sessions, with an emphasis placed on home visits or face-to-face meetings (where possible and conducted safely in light of Covid restrictions), to build crucial relationships with families before the start of the program. Team Members will likely meet once per week, for 1 - 2 hours outside of the FAST sessions to plan, coordinate, and schedule for the following week’s session. Our FAST Staff and Trainers will be working closely with Goodman and Lighthouse Christian staff and teams to ensure everyone has the info and tools they need to be successful. During the first cycle, the FAST Trainer conducts an initial two-day training with each team; once the family sessions begin, the Trainer is present for 3 site visits, on the first, third, and final night of the program, and will conduct a debrief with the team following each site visit. These site visits help the Trainer see the team in action, to provide feedback and support, so the team can strengthen their program implementation and integrity. A final wrap-up training is conducted following the graduation, which is a one-day training for the Trainer and team together. As we work to get the new program sites launched, our FAST Staff will be working closely with each site to help form teams, identify a Trainer, provide needed materials for training and programming, to run through program details so each team can plan, and providing ongoing support in collaboration with the FAST Trainer to ensure strong program implementation.

10. Describe any relevant training, certifications, and accreditations your staff has received. Our FAST Trainers go through rigorous training to become certified as FAST Trainers. First, they must serve on a FAST Team as a Team Member. Once they have done this for at least one cycle (many will have served on teams across several cycles before advancing), they will then attend a Training of Trainers, which is a training where Trainer Candidates can learn how to train the program and how to empower and support a team to run FAST Programs. Trainer Candidates attend a 5 day training to learn the different components of training a team, to practice those skills, and to meet other people who are in the process to become new Trainers or who are recertifying (which happens every 3 years) as Trainers. This opportunity to connect with others doing this work around the country provides a lot of information, sharing of resources amongst sites, and overall strengthening of programs through this time spent together. Following the Training of Trainers, the Trainer Candidate, now called a Trainer Intern, will complete an Internship. This is where they will train a new FAST Team from start to finish, but under the guidance of a Trainer Supervisor, who helps them practice and hone their skills has a trainer. We will ensure that the choice of Trainer balances local knowledge, particular skills (such as bilingual trainers), and supervisory experience in selecting the Trainers for each of these sites.

11. How do you coordinate and collaborate with other relevant service providers? If you are collaborating with an organization, please describe other partner’s roles and responsibilities.


They must submit a signed letter describing their roles and responsibilities with the program. Both Lighthouse Christian School and Goodman Community Center will fill the following roles and responsibilities for their respective sites: 1. Provide adequate, safe space for FAST Program to run each week 2. Recruit necessary team members, and any additional volunteers or childcare providers as needed to facilitate each cycle 3. Participate in the required Team Training so that each team is ready to implement the program with fidelity and integrity 4. Recruit families through all available means, to participate in the program including through light-touch, universal measures (fliers, phone calls or text messages, through apps if used by the school/center) and through high-touch more specific measures (home visits, face-to-face meetings, relationship building, teacher or center referrals, etc.). 5. Host 8 weekly FAST sessions, twice per year, for two years with the goal of serving 10 - 15 families each program cycle. 6. Oversee purchase of local program materials and supplies and provide tracking and reporting information back to FAST Office 7. Administer evaluations to parents, teachers, and team members for each cycle, and deliver needed information to our office for Evaluation Report Processing 8. Collaborate with FAST Trainer and FAST Staff to ensure strong program implementation and best outcomes for children and families participating.

12. Describe the demographics (i.e. BIPOC, LGBTQ+, income level) of populations your program or activity serves. Note: CDD asks funded programs to collect data on age, race, ethnicity, income level, and gender identity. We target and serve schools and organizations that have the greatest need. Thus far in Madison, our programs at One City, Sandburg Elementary, Kennedy Heights, and now Goodman and Lighthouse, serve primarily children of color with significant socioeconomic need. Lighthouse’s current enrollment is 90% children of color and 90% below the federal poverty line. At Goodman, around 60% of youth participants qualify for free or reduced school meals, and 79% identify as BIPOC. For families specifically participating in the FAST Program, they will be asked to complete surveys which will ask the following demographic questions: parent/caregiver representative and child race and ethnicity, parent and child gender, family income, and child age. This data will then be included in each cycle report, so that comprehensive data across these measures can be shared upon completion of the project.

13. Identify 2-3 measurements of success. How will you collect this data? Note: that CDD staff will discuss these with you and then incorporate them into your quarterly service report. Each cycle of the FAST program is evaluated by everyone involved--parents, teachers, and FAST Team members--via individualized surveys completed before and after the program. Surveys are composed of validated scales related to program goals, as well as more specific programmatic questions. Feedback and data are used by teams to make necessary adjustments for the next program cycle, as well as by our office to make broad program revisions if patterns emerge that necessitate changes. Proposed measurable outcomes include: Strengthening positive parent-child relationships; Strengthening child and family’s feelings of school connectedness; and Strengthening the connections of children and parents to their community. Long-term outcomes include the prevention of mental health issues, substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, school failure, child abuse and neglect, and violence. Our office collects, analyzes, and aggregates survey data and creates a report that is shared and discussed with the FAST Team. These reports are designed to serve four purposes: to provide feedback to the team, and give them a


sense of the impact of their local program and areas for possible improvement; to provide accountability to funders of the program; to ensure our program is achieving desired outcomes, and to allow us to be responsive to the needs of our partners. Parents are able to share feedback, and the team is able to use the report to review each cycle, determine what was effective and what can be improved for the next cycle.

AGENCY AND PROGRAM REVENUES CITY OF MADISONCOMMUNITY RESOURCES PROGRAM

APPENDIX I

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Name of Agency: Families & Schools Together, Inc.

**Instructions: Complete this workbook in tab order, so the numbers will autofill correctly. Only fill in the yellow cells.

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TOTAL REVENUE 40,000 40,000 0 0 0 0 0

The Purchase of Service Agreement shall include the agency's total revenue for the calendar year for each program you are requestingfurnding for in this RFP, as well as the Agency (Non-APP) budget.

*OTHER GOVERNMENT: Includes all Federal and State funds, as well as funds from other counties, other Dane County Departments, and all other Dane County cities, villages, and townships.

**FUNDRAISING: Includes funds received from foundations, corporations, churches, and individuals, as well as those raised fromfundraising events.

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REVENUE AND EXPENSE REPORT SUMMARY CITY OF MADISONCOMMUNITY RESOURCES PROGRAM

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All expenditures must be documented. Only program expenses actually paid out for the period covered may be claimed on this report.

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Families & Schools Together, Inc.

10/19/2021

Molly McGowan

**Only use whole numbers, if using formulas or amounts with cents, convert to whole number before submitting to CDD.

INDIVIDUAL PROGRAM EXPENSES CITY OF MADISONCOMMUNITY RESOURCES PROGRAM

APPENDIX IV - PART 2

10/22/2021-FAST CDD Budget Pages for Grant.xls:AppIV-PgExp Page 6

Name of Agency: Families & Schools Together, Inc.

Pgm Letter

Program Name Program Expenses 2022 City Request

City Portion of Expenses Paid YTD

City Portion of Exp. Billed this Period

City Portion of Exp. Billed

YTD

% of City Allocation

SpentA PERSONNEL 29,949 0 0 0 0%

OTHER OPERATING 10,051 0 0 0 0%

SPACE 0 0 0 0 0%

SPECIAL COSTS 0 0 0 0 0%

TOTAL 40,000 0 0 0 0%

B PERSONNEL 0 0 0%

OTHER OPERATING 0 0 0%

SPACE 0 0 0%

SPECIAL COSTS 0 0 0%

TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0%

C PERSONNEL 0 0 0%


SPACE 0 0 0%


TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0%

D PERSONNEL 0 0 0%


SPACE 0 0 0%


TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0%

E PERSONNEL 0 0 0%


SPACE 0 0 0%


TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0%

40,000 0 0 0 0%

All expenditures must be documented. Only program expenses actually paid out for the period covered may be claimed on this report.

FAST Program

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TOTAL FOR ALL PROGRAMS

October 20, 2021

Dear Members of the Crisis Intervention and Prevention Grant Committee,

We are glad to support and partner with Families and Schools Together or “FAST” in its application for resources.

As you may know, FAST has been providing programs to Madison communities for over thirty years. The program has an incredible array of evaluation and research that demonstrate its effectiveness in supporting children and their families to live better, more resilient lives. It has been proven to help children, parents and the entire family who participate and evaluated as an effective tool in violence prevention.

Goodman is partnering with FAST to expand their programming to Goodman families. We serve some of Madison’s most diverse and socioeconomically disadvantaged families in Madison. In 2021, our child and youth participants identify as: 44% Black, 32% white, 16% two or more races, 4% Asian, 1% indigenous American/Alaskan native. Of our youth participants, 14% identify as Hispanic/Latino and just under 60% qualify for free or reduced-price school meals.

Goodman has been searching for a program that includes parents because we know that the opportunities and the challenges they experience are experienced by their children as well. We are looking to develop stronger, deeper relationships with parents so we can collectively work on behalf on the entire family, and we want evidence-based programming that we know will be effective.

We recognize violence prevention is achieved by using a variety of tactics and given FAST has been proven to positively impact families, we are excited to add FAST to our prevention portfolio.

FAST needs support to run their central organization so that new programs like Goodman are successful. The pandemic has meant greater need for support for children and their parents alike. We think FAST is an extremely positive prevention strategy and we look forward to supporting families at Goodman as well.

Thank you for supporting their request.

Sincerely,

Letesha Nelson CEO/Executive Director

Lighthouse Christian School | 6402 Schroeder Rd. Madison, WI 53711 | www.lcsmadison.net Tax ID Number: 39-1603836

October 19, 2021 Marcio Sierra, President Lighthouse Schools 6402 Schroeder Road Madison, WI 53711 Dear Committee Supporting the Violence and Prevention Grant, Thank you for the opportunity to support and partner with Families and Schools Together organization to host a FAST program at Lighthouse Schools. As you may know, Lighthouse Schools serves exceptionally diverse and socioeconomically disadvantaged children that come from all parts of Madison, not just the local neighborhood. This is due, in part, to having strong connections with the Latino population and growing our support with the African American community. The challenges faced by our school community are already great but the challenges as a result of COVID have been profound. Well over half our entire student body had parents out of work, a statistic which has not improved much. For many, they already reside in cramped living conditions, a component that impacts spreading the virus as well as the stresses that occur with isolation, job loss, illness and sometimes death. This has meant that entire families have needed support, not just children. This is one of the reasons we are so interested in FAST. FAST is about connecting families together so they can be among friends who may be experiencing similar challenges. Our children are already facing enough, and we want to provide positive experiences to help set our children and families on a heathy path as the move through COVID, as well as the financial strife and racial discrimination that our children and families face every day. The racial achievement gap for Latinos and Black families in Madison is terrible, and so is the incarceration rate. We need every opportunity to provide a foundation to our children and families to shed the statistics and stigma so they can succeed in our community. FAST has long had a reputation for supporting children and their families, and we have wanted a program at Lighthouse for years but have not been able to afford it. However, with COVID, we see the stresses are too intense not to move forward. We hope to use funds from fundraising, along with support from this grant to help fund the program. Thank you for your consideration of our partnership with FAST. Marcio Sierra President, Lighthouse Schools

http://www.lcsmadison.net/

Documents

Crisis Intervention and Prevention