1. Education for Community Agencies
Families of Home
Education for Community Agencies

2. The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is a program that has a biblical based approach of serving and meeting the needs of individuals, children, and families in the communities that they are based in Their mission and ministry are motivated by God’s word and His love with an emphasis on the importance of serving others in an unbiased way. The Salvation Army assists these populations through various services which includes, but is not limited to: elderly services, clothing and food services, adult rehabilitation, hunger relief, holiday assistance, and emergency disaster services.

3. Pathway of Hope The old program Strength Based
Guidance for Families in risk of, or in, poverty
Family had to have one child under the age of 18
Interventions Focused on the Parents
Education on community resources
Assistance on developing a support system
Meant to break the intergenerational poverty

4. Families of Home The renovated program
Same Population as Pathway of Hope with added income threshold
More intensive
Wholistic – focuses on the entire family
Interventions for children and parents
Early Childhood education
Parenting Classes
Employment training
Vocational Education

5. Evidence Parents-As-Teachers Program Data
Helps educate children before school
Will be the model for childcare with in FoH
Data
Shows that children who had early childhood education had greater upward mobility and were less likely to be in poverty later in life.

6. Evidence Two Generational Program Program Evidence
Interventions are meant to focus on children and adults
Families are “whole” and should be treated as such
Evidence
TGPs have shown that focusing on adults and children has better success at breaking the “Cycle of Poverty.”

7. Q and A (Possible questions on next slide)

8. What is the income threshold
What is the income threshold? Depends on family size and the ratio of adults to children. Pass out Threshold chart Has the program started? Not yet, looking for families now How can I link families? Provide referral information to the agency staff and referral process Why not utilize each program separately? Accessing all the programs (childcare, vocation, classes, etc) under one roof helps to integrate interventions. Does childcare cost anything? Childcare is provide free of charge during the program, which can also help the family save money during the program to get started. How is the program monitored? Provide monitoring data, as well as how information will be disseminated in the future.