AGENDA

Strengthening Florida Families

Governor's 2003 Faith and Community Conference

October 3, 2003

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

8:00am Entertainment

· Welcome: Sr. Jeanne O’Laughlin, Emcee

· Invocation: Rabbi Solomon Schiff, Rabbinical Association of Greater Miami

· Introduction: Linda King

· Music: The Choir of Temple Beth Shalom in Palm Coast

8:30am Prayer Breakfast

· Emcee: Sr. Jeanne O’Laughlin

· Introduction: Yvonne Sawyer of Lt. Governor

· Remarks: Lt. Governor Toni Jennings

· “Strengthening Families” video

· Introduction: Sr. Jeanne O’Laughlin of John Brabson

· Remarks: John Brabson – Chair, Faith-Based Advisory Board

· Opening Celebration: Governor Jeb Bush

9:30am Break

9:45- 11:30am Topical Workshops (Concurrent Sessions)

Session I – Education

Moderator: Mr. Jim Warford , K-12 Chancellor

Panelists: Kay Kammel, FLDOE, Office of Family & Community Outreach

Monica Hayes, FLDOE, Office of Equity & Access

Roxanne Dunn, Volunteer Florida – Literacy Initiative

Mark Nelson, Faith-based Mentoring

Best Practice/Model Programs:

First Baptist of Leesburg, Rev. Kenneth Scrubbs

School District of Hillsborough County, Ruth Hall

Children’s Psychiatric Center – All-Aboard Family Literacy, Cathy Hamilton-Green

Session II – Children & Families -- Healthy Marriage Promotion & Foster Care

Moderator: Mr. Jerry Regier, Secretary, Department of Children and Families

Panelists: Karen Murphy, Healthy Marriage Initiative, DCF

Del Palmer, Statewide Faith-based Liaison, DCF

Best Practice/Model Programs:

Family First, Mark Merrill

Family Enrichment Center, Olga Williams

Live the Life, Rev. Richard Albertson

Rabbinical Association of Greater Miami, Rabbi Solomon Schiff

Place of Hope, Charles Bender

His House Children’s Home, Jeanne Caceres-Gonzalez

Miami’s River of Life, George E. Ellis, Jr.

Session III – Employment & Day Care

Moderator: Mr. Mike Switzer, Workforce Florida

Susan Simpler, Agency for Workforce Innovation

Best Practice/Model Programs

United Way of Brevard County, Rita Elkins

Workforce Broward, Mason Jackson

Episcopal Children’s Services, Becky Henderson

Session IV – Housing/Homelessness/Community Development

Moderator: Ms. Glenda Hood, Secretary of State

Panelist: Teresa Chappell – S.E. Region, U.S. Dept. of HUD

Tom Pierce – DCF, Office of Homelessness

Judy Majors and Julaine Harris, Fannie Mae

Best Practice/Model Programs:

Homeless Emergency Project – Everybody’s Tabernacle, Barbara Green

Good News Outreach – Chuck White

Greater Miami Habitat for Humanity – Anne Manning

Session V – Prevention

Moderator: Annie Neasman – Assistant Secretary, Department of Health

Panelists: Bruce Grant, FL Office of Drug Control

Annette Phelps, FL Dept. of Health, Abstinence

Lisa Agate, FL Dept. of Health, HIV/AIDS Prevention

Rod Love, DJJ -- Office of Prevention & Victim Services

Best Practice/Model Programs

AIM for the Best (Catholic Charities), Elena Garcia

United Deliverance Community Resource Center – Sandra White

Elijah Network Family & Community Alliance – Kate Witte

11:45am Break

12:00pm Lunch

Entertainment: Harmonic Motion

Invocation: Imam Muhammad Musri

Introduction of keynote speaker: Rev. Julio Perez

Keynote Speaker: Rev. Luis A. Cortes, Jr. of Nueva Esperanza

1:00pm Break

1:15pm - 2:15 Regional/Topical Breakout Sessions (Concurrent Sessions)

Growing Your Organization to Respond to Community Needs

Ø Rev. Robert Lee – Fresh Ministries (Moderator)

Ø Bruce Grob - Overview

Ø Michael Bryant – Finding the Resources

Ø Vanessa Boyer – Collaboration & Partnerships

Make Your Grant Proposal More Competitive with “Program Evaluation”

Ø Dr. Randy Nelson – 21^st Century Research

Ø Robert Woody -- Department of Corrections

What Private Foundations Look For in Grant Proposals

Ø Dr. David Odahowski – Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation

Ø Eric Kelly – Allegheny Franciscan Foundation

Effective Regional Coalitions – Collaboration Works!

Ø Bill Gay – NE Florida Faith-based Association (Moderator)

Ø Rev. Rick Sawyer – Family & Children Faith Coalition

Ø Bernie Diaz, Miami Coalition for a Safe & Drug-Free Community

Ø Apostle Nelia Frazier – Tampa Bay Ministerial Alliance

Find What You Need to Succeed in South Florida

Ø Ms. Yvonne Sawyer – Family & Children Faith Coalition

Ø Rhonda Felder – Center for Non-Profit Effectiveness

Ø Dr. Sarah Mahler – Florida International University

2:30pm Closing Rally

Entertainment: Angels Three/Copper Boyz

Keynote Speaker: Mr. Jim Towey – White House Office of Faith & Community Initiatives

A Call to Action: Governor Jeb Bush

3:30pm Mr. Larnelle Harris

Testimony & Music

4:00pm Closing Prayer

Rev. Kenneth Scrubbs – First Baptist Church of Leesburg

Workshop Presenter Contacts:

Session 1: Education

Best Practice/Model Programs for Education

Rev. Kenneth Scrubbs

First Baptist Church of Leesburg

220 N 13^th Street, Leesburg, FL 34748

352-787-1008

kenscrubbs@FBCLeesburg.org

· Work with the churches in the community to recruit retired African American teachers

· Works with local community college to recruit students who aspire to be teachers

· Works with high schools to recruit high school students to mentor

· Receives funds from the Governor's Mentoring Initiative for Tutoring

Cathy Hamilton-Green

Children's Psychiatric Center, Inc. -- All-Aboard Family Literacy Program

15490 Northwest 7th Avenue, Suite 200

Miami, Florida 33169

Phone: (305)687-2227 Fax: (305)681-4355

E-mail: cpcaacathy@aol.com

The Children's Psychiatric Center, Inc. (CPC) and its prevention program CPC/All-Aboard Educational Services has establish a full service family literacy program for kindergarten through second grade children whose family members are enrolled in the Adult ESOL Program at Comstock Elementary in Miami-Dade County. The All-Aboard family literacy program is currently funded under the Governor's Family Literacy Initiative 2003-2004 grant cycle and represents a community based non-profit organization.

Ruth A. Hall, Supervisor, Special Projects and Programs

School District of Hillsborough County

901 E. Kennedy Boulevard

Tampa, Fl 33602

Phone: (813) 272-4440

E-mail: hall_r@popmail.firn.edu or ruth.hall@sdhc.k12.fl.edu

Faith-based and community initiatives in the School District of Hillsborough County is a collaborative model, with a focus on programs and services that enhance student achievement, parent involvement, family literacy, and school/community partnerships in K-20 education. The program is managed through the Office of Special Projects and Programs, which is housed in the Division of Instruction. A resource guide and training was provided to school principals to help them understand NCLB faith-based and community legislation, to provide an overview of best practices, to provide guidelines for building collaborations with faith-based and community organizations and guidelines for coordinating school/community activities. Faith-based and community organizations received a resource guide to support after school and tutoring programs for students. Joint program sponsorships include the Annual Parent/Child Jamboree, which provides information and training to parents and students through collaborations with community associations, the school district, and community agencies. Other programs include a partnership with the University of South Florida to provide mentoring and “adopt a school” resource bank with targeted schools, partnerships and grants from community organizations to support family literacy and parental involvement in inner city schools, and grants to support school/community literacy centers. The program focus also includes quarterly meetings with faith-based and community organizations which feature guest speakers and which provide training and information in a variety of areas, including but not limited to the following:

· School And District Information And Calendars

· Grant Writing/Resources

· Building School/Community Collaborations And Partnerships

· Tutoring And Mentoring Programs

· Before and After School Activities

· Empowering & Partnering with Faith-Based & Community Problem Solvers

· Early College Planning

· Help With Crisis Counseling

· County-Wide Programs And Services

Frontline Outreach Mentoring Program

The Governor’s Mentoring Initiative partnership with Frontline Outreach is designed to actively engage faith based organizations throughout Florida in an effort to increase mentors in Florida public schools that received a failing grade in 2001. The project will educate and engage faith-based leaders and their congregations to help Florida’s students excel as students and citizens. The focus of this program is to urge faith-based organization to commit to spending one hour per week providing academic mentoring of a child in the public schools for one year. The project is to encourage 50 faith-based organizations to connect with 50% of Florida’s failing schools by December 2003.

Frontline Outreach is a faith-based community organization, serving over 1,000 children and families in Orlando annually. Its mission is to prepare tomorrow’s leaders with a vision for success and service. The philosophy of excellence and service is firmly rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A freestanding ministry, Frontline receives its support from fees for service, investments by local corporations, private individuals, churches, foundations and government.

This project will enlist congregations to participate in school-based mentoring. The leaders of those congregations and their designees will be targeted for the Governor’s Mentoring Initiative collaborative effort with Frontline Outreach. Designees will include ministers of education and youth program leaders.

This program will begin in seven counties this first year in hopes to recruit over 200 mentors from the faith community. Counties include: Putnam, Marion, Hillsborough, Orange, Volusia, Duval and Wakulla. Mentor trainings will take place in each respective county, and then each district’s school volunteer coordinator will make mentor/mentee matches.

If you are interested in participating in this project, please email Mark Nelson at mark@volunteerflorida.org or you may reach him by calling (850) 413-0909.

National Center for Community Education sponsors Faith-based After-school Workshops

To help Faith-based organizations with after-school programs, there will be workshops offered. November 6, 2003 at the Renaissance Orlando Hotel/Airport in Orlando, FL. The one day workshops has unlimited enrollment per group, and registration open to the first 100 participants. Cost is $25.00 per person (includes lunch).

Points covered in workshop:
-          How to build school/faith-based partnerships,
-           What a successful after-school program is,
-           Examples of exemplary faith-based/school after-school programs,
-           Where and how funding is available.

To register please print out the form by clicking below and fax to NCCE at number on the form.
http://www.nccenet.org/news_events/Faith-Based Workshop Flyer.htm

For questions contact Cheryl Kelly at NCCE at cekelly@earthlink.net or call 800-811-1105

Session II: Children & Families

Karen Murphy, TANF Financial Administrator– Dept. of Children and Families

404 Winewood, Suite

Tallahassee, FL

Phone: (850) 487-2187

Karen_murphy@dcf.state.fl.us

Del Palmer, Faith-based Liaison – Dept. of Children and Families

(321) 637-7250 x 271