ICS's CCF 2006 Sub-Awardees

Program descriptions for 11 sub-award organizations
selected for the third year of ICS's CCF grant

NOTE: Each of the 11 organizations listed below is receiving a sub-award grant of $10,622, plus one-on-one Technical Assistance (TA), and monthly Capacity-Building Training on a range of important topics.

Sub-Award Brief Description of Organization / Sub-Award Use City County State FBCO
Alameda County Collaborative for Healthy African-American Marriages & Families The ACCHAAMF is a newly-forming collaborative of local FBCO's to promote and strengthen healthy marriages and relationships in the African-American community in the 14 cities within Alameda County. The grant will help the coalition set up a website to advertise its training programs, conduct an advertising campaign to advertise the website, and train several people to become trainers of marriage and relationship skills-based curricula with specific relevance to the African-American community. The overall goal is to promote the value and benefits of healthy marriages and relationships to the African-American community in the county. Hayward Alameda CA CBO
Allen Temple Health and Social Services Ministries Allen Temple Health and Social Ministries currently provides bi-weekly Strengthening Multi-Ethinic Families and Communities: A Violence Prevention Training Program curriculum to fathers in East Oaklaad and it surrounding communities. ATHSM will use the grant to build capacity by certifying 3 additional volunteer staff members in this curriculum in order to reach a larger population and to provide the same services to women, and to also include the RE Mastering the Magic of Love curriculum in its couples trainings. Oakland Alameda CA FBO
Charles P. Foster Foundation (CPFF) The Charles P. Foster Foundation works to restore disenfranchised fathers (primarily African-American) back to the family unit. The grant will help CPFF build its capacity to provide relationship education classes to the fathers in their network, including the 12-14 young males ages 18-25 years old who will residents in their ex-offender Project Choice Housing Academy now being set up in a facility in West Oakland. Oakland Alameda CA CBO
Eleventh Hour Evangelistic Association (EHEA) EHEA has been providing mentoring for youth and young adults (primarily African-American and Hispanic) in Oakland since it was founded in 2005. The grant will help EHEA building up its number of marriage & relationship educators so as to offer skills-based training programs to a minimum of 10 CBOs in Alameda County targeting high school, college, singles, single parents, couples, engaged couples, and ex-offenders. Pinole, Richmond, Oakland Alameda CA CBO
FACES of the East Bay FACES (Family, Arts, Culture, Education, and Spirituality) works in Oakland to empower individuals and families through education, recreation, housing, health and economic development. FACES Building Healthy Families program serves mainly low-income individuals and couples with stress reduction workshops, parenting classes, family interplay workshops, and family counseling. The grant will help FACES build its capacity to provide couple communication and parenting skills training to help strengthen families. Oakland Alameda CA FBO
God's Love Outreach Ministry (GLOM) GLOM serves low-income residents in the Tri-Valley Community (Livermore, Pleasanton, Dublin, and San Ramon) with multiple family services, and especially its classes dealing with divorce. They work especially one-on-one with married couples to support reconciliation, compassion and forgiveness within the relationship and the family unit in efforts to help the marriage avoid divorce and be successful. The grant will help build GLOM's capacity to provide increased couple communications training classes. Livermore Alameda CA FBO
Joyful Noise Family Center (a project of Community Church of Hayward) The Joyful Noise Family Center (JNFC) plans to use the capacity-building grant to advance their capacity to provide marriage education, relationship education, and family strengthening education to at-risk families in ethnically-diverse South Hayward (70% of the population being Hispanic) by expanding their training classes such as Anger Management and Spousal Abuse and incorporating RE Mastering the Magic of Love into their couples training program. Hayward Alameda CA FBO
Latino Advisory Committee on Crime (LACC) LACC Familias Unidas (United Families) project is now being formed for the purpose of assisting low-income Latino families in Alameda County, and in Oakland in particular, in strengthening their family relationships by reinforcing positive personal, social and family values. The grant will help LACC Familias Unidas build it capacity to provide marriage and relationship skills-based training to Latino individuals and couples primarily in Hispanic neighborhoods in East Oakland. Oakland Alameda CA CBO
Lion Share Unlimited (LSU) Lion Share Unlimited provides intervention and leadership training in orderto create healthy, sustainable futures for at-risk African-American males, their families, and communities. The grant will enable LSU to increase its capacity to provide Family Strengthening Education (using RE's Mastering the Magic of Love and other curricula) to groups of 8-20 individuals in Intervention; Leadership Training; and  Relationship Education Training. The goal of this intervention and training is steer young males in the right direction and away from criminal behavior and incarceration. Oakland Alameda CA CBO
Men Helping Men (MHM) Men Helping Men is a newly-formed program to help primarly low-income African-American and Hispanic incarcerated men (in San Quentin) and boys (in Camp Sweeney at Juvenile Hall in San Leandro) strengthen their family relationships. MHM will use the grant to build its capacity to conduct relationship and marriage education courses for these inmates, and provide follow-up education for them upon their release from incarceration. Oakland Alameda CA CBO
Reality Mentor, Inc. (RMI) Reality Mentor, Inc. was established in 2006 to rebuild families by providing early intervention and prevention services for at-risk youth in grades 9th-12th who are at risk for educational failure, teen pregnancy, truancy, and dropping out of school. The program is a collaborative effort with Hayward Unified School District (HUSD) and local businesses & corporations working with RMI as the lead agency. The grant will help build RMI's capacity to conduct character and relationship skills-based trainings for these youth in So. Alameda County. Hayward Alameda CA CBO