| Description: |
The Department of Human Services realizes the need in strengthening families and marriages and to this end has set aside $180,000 of ARRA CSBG funding to qualified faith-based and community organizations to do the following:
1. Provide mentoring support to single mothers with sons.
2. Provide support and focus groups for non-custodial fathers in an effort to encourage paternal parenting.
3. Provide marriage enrichment workshops.
4. Provide promotion and support to the Territory’s Family Month activities in the month of October.
5. Provide counseling to families experiencing problems and requiring counseling by an order of the court.
6. Convene a family conference celebrating marriage, parenting, and family accomplishments.
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| Achievements: |
- Mentoring
support was offered to single mothers
- Provided support and focus groups
for non-custodial fathers in an effort to encourage paternal parenting
- Provided marriage enrichment
workshops
- Promoted and supported the Territory’s
Family Month activities in the month of October
- Counseling to families experiencing
problems and requiring counseling by an order of the court was offered
- Convened a family conference
celebrating marriage, parenting, and family accomplishments
- Group sessions focused on specific
parenting strategies with information being provided by the Parenting Mentors,
or when appropriate by an invited topic expert.
- The program hosted at least three
Community Forums with the purpose of providing an opportunity for the exchange
of ideas and concerns and to establish a dialogue between agency
representatives, mother and fathers.
- Family Counseling was provided to
families referred by the courts. A family counselor in the Marriage and Family
Support Project Program worked with families, developed a care plan, and
provided referrals to community based support services.
- Marriage Enrichment Workshops were
held during the course of the project, with at least one of these workshops
provided from a secular perspective.
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