Subcontractors? Describe the organizations ability to solicit subcontractors. Describe the organizations evaluation criteria for selecting subcontractors.? Describe the organizations abili
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B.2.3 Subcontractors
o Describe the organization’s ability to solicit subcontractors. Describe the organization’s evaluation criteria for selecting subcontractors.
o Describe the organization’s ability to manage subcontractors. Describe internal controls to manage subcontractor agreements and financial management.
o Describe the frequency of support applicant foresees subcontractors will require. Describe how the applicant plans to address the need.
o Describe any challenges the applicant foresees with subcontractors and how those issues may be resolved.
o Describe how subcontractors are held to program quality and how program quality may be measured.
o Describe how subcontractors are evaluated for delivering programming through a PYD and PYJ approach.
Contents Organization History, Capacity, and Relevant Experience 2 Subcontractors 3 Details about the Program 4 Program 4 Staff and Volunteer Qualifications 7 Youth Involvement 8 Evidence Based Curricula to be Provided 9 Organization Operating Budget FY 23 Error! Bookmark not defined.
Organization History, Capacity, and Relevant Experience
In August 2010, the Hope Foundation Re-Entry Network, Inc. (HFRN) was established under the leadership of Executive Director, Corwin Knight, a successful returning citizen who grew up in Southeast D.C. Mr. Knight’s success was made possible through the help of others in the community and because of this, he felt that it was only fitting to give back to those who are growing up in similar circumstances. Through dedication and hard work, HFRN has found similar success. Knight and his team have a deep understanding of and strong relationship with the residents of Southeast and have quickly become a part of the fabric of that community.
The Hope Foundation Re-Entry Network (better known as Hope Foundation) mission is to provide intensive, hands-on transitional and workforce development services for youth in underserved communities and justice-involved individuals. Using a participant centered lens, Hope Foundation programming serves as a deterrent to criminogenic behaviors and provides tools for positive growth and development. Hope Foundation staff knows first-hand that creating a balanced environment fosters recovery for distressed populations, and they strive to offer support that addresses the immediate psycho-social-educational needs of underserved populations, as well as programs that educate and empower its participants to succeed in the future.
The Hope Foundation’s staff is exceptional in its ability to relate to and understand the youth that they serve. The students who attend their after-school cognitive behavioral groups regularly intimate to the group facilitators and their peers about their issues with family instability, violence and substance abuse. The group facilitators, including the Executive and Program Directors, know the participants on a very personal level. They are able to push the group out of their comfort zone and speak frankly with each youth about their strengths, weaknesses and personality traits. Students meet staff for weekend outings and follow them to their cars after every meeting to share a laugh or ask questions. Rapport is essential to any program with underserved youth and the staff at HFRN has been able to build an extremely strong and personal connection with the youth that they continually serve.
Hope Foundation is better known for its work with returning citizens and re-entry programs but has successfully branched out to reaching youth before and after they enter the justice system. Key staff at HFRN have extensive experience with youth in a number of different settings. Mr. Knight created and headed last summer’s Strong Summer Program, recruiting a very large group of children and implementing an evidence based curriculum, teaching essential social skills to underserved youth. Program Director, Terrence Davis has over ten (10) years of experience designing programs, managing staff and direct practice in the area of youth development. Sal Corbin, Clinical Director, administered youth leadership training for thirteen (13) years and Development Specialist, Trevor Yee has four (4) years of experience with youth in the juvenile justice system, delivering substance abuse aversion programs, co-directing mentorship programs and with family case management. Comment by Sonya Satterlund: This is good, but this proposal needs to address the population that is already justice involved—see target population a couple pages down
Hope Foundation had the opportunity to serve over 500 youth last summer alone, in five (5) of the eight (8) wards in the District. Children ages seven (7) to thirteen (13) participated in programming concentrating on conflict resolution and communication skills. Youth ages thirteen (13) to eighteen (18) were given entrepreneurship training, life skills training, mentorship and tutoring in addition to the conflict resolution and communication skills programming. One Ward 8 site consisting of twenty (20) youth was chosen to continue into the school year in the afterschool program. Of the participants at the selected site, ten (10) percent went on to a four year university and eighty-nine (89) percent of students remaining are currently enrolled in the after-school program. One-hundred (100) percent of participants continued on to the next grade level in school and currently attend class on a regular basis. Comment by Sonya Satterlund: Is this still accurate? I think this proposal was from several years ago so figures may need to be updated
A majority of the summer and after school participants reside in 100% Section 8 properties, reserved for extremely low & low-income families. The youth who attend the program are in need of a safe place to go during the summer hours, especially when parents are at work. Participants have self-reported that they need access to breakfast, lunch, snacks and/or supper; 100% of participants receive free and reduced meals at school. All of the current students are African-American and come from Ward 8. It is anticipated that the coming year’s program will serve 30-50 youth in Ward 8 communities.
The staff at HFRN is organized by expertise and for efficacy, each key staff person concentrating on their area of expertise. Executive Director, Corey Knight oversees the management of grant funds and programming surrounding the entrepreneurship training and mentorship component. Program Director, Terrence Davis serves directly under the Executive Director and is responsible for day-to-day operations such as program scheduling, data tracking, and participant success and employee management. As Clinical Director, Sal Corbin manages the cognitive-behavioral groups including the conflict resolution, communication and life skills programming.
Hope Foundation is fully able to track and comply with grant requirements and will work with an independent compliance manager to ensure this. Mr. Davis will monitor grant requirements such as program attendance, consent forms collection, survey distribution and collection, staff training and all other requirements set forth. The Data Analyst will create forms needed and analyze data collected. Mr. Knight will ensure that organization structure and status requirements, operations and finances, safety standards and tax information remain compliant. He will work closely with an independent CPA and the compliance manager to guarantee that all requirements are met in a timely fashion. All required staff training, including Advancing Youth Development training, will be met.
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· Most importantly, our philosophy towards youth development is, youth participants of our programs are not clients but are a part of the Hope Foundation family. We treat our youth participants as key contributors to their outcomes. Instead of guiding their engagement in our programs we coach and mentor them to facilitate their growth by providing continued support throughout the process. Second, we assist our youth participants from the perspective that their development requires the involvement of families and communities. Our approach supports healthy youth development in the youth’s microsystems at the youth, family, and community. The youth participants’ families are not secondary to the process neither are community resources ignored. We work with families to ensure we are meeting basic needs, reducing barriers, and providing resource to support the family. We consider family and community resources highly essential to the process. Third, our intent in serving youth participants is to prepare young people to meet the challenges of adolescence and young adulthood through a structured, progressive series of activities and experiences, which help them identify and build on their social, emotional, ethical, physical, and cognitive competencies.)
Subcontractors
The HFRN has a strong partnership with Ballou High School, Jubilee Jobs, Department of Human Servicer, DYRS, and a plethora of community partners.
HFRN staff will be reaching out to partner organizations and other likely resources that likely program participants and their families will utilize. Hope Foundation will continue to create new partnerships with these service providers and create a mutually beneficial referral process. Flyers will also be placed strategically in widely used government benefit service offices (i.e. SNAP, Department of Human Services, D.C. Housing Authority, TANF), recreation centers and libraries.
Registration will also be opened up to participants beyond the Congress Heights Apartment Complex. Complexes will be notified one at a time that their thirteen (13) to eighteen (18) year old residents are eligible for this program until the program reaches its max capacity, to be determined by HFRN staff. Hope Foundations believes it can reach a wider audience who are not yet aware of The Hope Foundation through these strategies.
Details about the Program
Program
The proposed program, Ready Set Grow Youth Empowerment Program (RSGYEP) strives to meet physical and social needs as well as build competencies of its participants that will aid them in achieving positive goals and outcomes. Free and reduced meals at school are offered because young people who are hungry cannot perform at their best. Outside of school is no different. (RSGYEP) provides healthy snacks and meals to its participants to improve health outcomes and increase brain functioning.
Eliminating the threat of danger is also a basic need that hinders youth development. The presence of the HFRN staff creates a safe space. When youth are afforded the comfort of knowing they are in a physically and emotionally safe place, they are able to relax, be themselves and succeed. This program directly confronts these issues of hunger and safety and removes those basic barriers to growth.
As these barriers are addressed, (RSGYEP) aids young people on a deeper level by fostering social and emotional development. (RSGYEP) uses evidence-based curricula to teach participants life skills and coping mechanisms. Finally, this program aids youth development by building knowledge and skills regarding entrepreneurship and financial management by creating and implementing an actual business plan with participants.
Hope Foundation has set targets and goals that will make a strong impact on the community but remain attainable. The target is 50 unduplicated participants by the end of the grant period. The goal HFRN would like to accomplish is an increase in eighty (80) percent of psycho-social-educational outcomes and educational outcomes 100% better than Ward 8 averages. The households and youth residents of the targeted neighborhoods are all low-income and are at very high risk of several factors that can hinder economic and academic progress. The target population is considered high risk, first because of their socioeconomic status and second, because many households are headed by single parents.
In order to cultivate emotional growth, staff facilitate groups that have both group facilitation and psycho-educational components. Students start the group by checking in and talking about the successes and challenges of their daily lives. Group participants and facilitators offer one another support in hard times and praise for accomplishments. The psycho-educational element is based on The Power Source, a life skills curriculum that includes discussion, activities and interactive participation. This program is an evidence-based curriculum that facilitators use to help young people develop a sense of self and encourages students to open up about friends and influences, conflict, family issues, loss, forgiveness and the future. We will uses the evidence based ARISE curriculum that teaches self-esteem and educates youth about substance abuse and guns and the Phoenix Curriculum to reduce gang intervention, prevention, and suppression.
Education is also a very strong focus of this program. The Hope Foundation not only seeks to strengthen participants’ school engagement, it endeavors to fill the gaps in what schools often do not teach, entrepreneurship and finance. In the Entrepreneurship Training Program (ETP), students still check in at the beginning of group but the focus is then switched to business and financial stability. In the first school semester, students are engaged as they learn the different aspects of starting a business such as the meaning of overhead costs and how to market your product. They also discuss aspects of money management such as not letting your expenses go up as your salary increases and the power of compound interest. This program also uses the ARISE curriculum to teach networking, jobs and money management.
As the second semester of the school year begins, students start to focus on the creation of their own landscaping or water sales businesses. They strategize on how best to market their business, keep overhead costs low, find the ideal location and maximize profits. Participants volunteer to take the lead on different aspects of the business plan. As school lets out, they are able to gain valuable employment skills and put their business plans to the test. Participants’ landscape homes throughout the community and will begin to sell water bottles at festivals on hot days, earning money for school supplies and other necessities. More importantly, they learn the value of setting goals, working diligently, management of finances and being creative.
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Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Phoenix Curriculum groups 4-6pm |
Psychoeducational groups 4-6pm |
Entrepreneurship training 4-6pm |
During the school year, groups are held three times a week for two (2) hours each session. The psycho-educational groups are held on Tuesdays and are run by the Clinical and Program Directors. Thursdays are focused on entrepreneurship training and are run by the Executive Director and Development Specialist. The youth enrolled also participate in community service throughout the school year. Decisions on how to serve the community are discussed as a group with participants taking the lead. Past community service activities have included community clean up and advocacy.
As school lets out, participants hit the ground running, working four (4) hour days, three (3) days a week and groups are still held for the other two (2) days each week. The two (2) days not spent working have the same groups as during the school year. Group culture building events are also held and are decided upon with participant input. School year groups always end with a snack and lunch and snack are provided during summer programs.
Hope Foundation has implemented the following proven recruitment strategies: (1) advertising in monthly newsletters that are strategically distributed at low-income properties; (2) posting flyers in said apartment buildings on each of the floors, advertising the programs; (3) maintaining program tables in the rental offices of those buildings to distribute information about the program during the 1st through the 5th of each month when families pay their rent; (4) meeting with the Principals, Counselors and Teachers at the feeder schools and sharing information about the programs; (5) securing the demographic report from the rental office which contains the names and phone numbers of each residents and the ages of their children and specifically targeting these households with personal visits/phone calls to ask them to participate in the program; and, (6) by engaging current program participants and their families to assist in recruiting additional participants. Programs are also advertised on the Hope Foundation’s and the apartment communities’ websites.
These strategies have proven to be very effective in recruitment and retention, especially word of mouth. In underserved communities, word spreads quickly and the testimony of a participant carries much more weight than a flyer or staff person and participants are more likely to stay if their friends attend the program as well.
The program will be offered during school breaks, a total of 15 days, for 6 hours each day (10:00 AM to 3:00 PM). The dates of implementation are November 23 and 25, 2022 (2 days), December 23, 2021 (1 days), December 27-30, 2022 (4 days), February 21-24, 2023 (4 days), and April 18-21, 2023 (4 days).
Each day will start with a light prepackaged breakfast (e.g., fruit, yogurt, muffin, and juice) and kick-off activities (attendance, announcement, a fun icebreaker) [10:00 AM to 10:30 AM] and end with warp-up or review of the day’s activities [2:30 PM to 3:00 PM]. In addition, the participants will receive lunch each day (e.g., pizza or sandwich with drink). A synopsis of daily program activities follows.
Program Segment |
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Tuesday |
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11/23/2022 & 11/25/2022 |
Ballou High School 10-11AM: Ballou High School – Breakfast and think tank activity 11AM-12:30PM: Making a habit a Service Activity – lunch 1:30-3:00PM: Who Am I activity |
Ballou High School 10-11:00AM: Think tank 11:00AM-12:00PM: Problem Solving Activity – lunch 12:45-3:00PM: Group art activity |
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12/23/2022 |
Ballou High School -Create gift bags to distribute to the homeless people in Wards 7 and 8 10-11:30AM: Breakfast -11:30AM-12:00PM: Create Gift Bags 12:45-3:00PM: Lunch Distribute gift bags |
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12/27/2022 12/30/2022 |
Ballou High School 10-11AM: Breakfast and Think Tank 11AM-12:30PM: Lunch Art Activity 1:30- 3:00PM: Lunch Career Research |
Ballou High School 10-11AM: Breakfast 11AM-12:30PM: Puzzles 1:30-3:00PM: Lunch Paint Activity |
Ballou High School 10-11AM: Breakfast – Think Tank Activity 11AM-12:30PM: Journaling 1:30-3:00PM: Lunch Workshop |
Outside Field Trip 10-11:00AM: 11:00AM-12:00PM: 12:45-3:00PM: |
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2/21/2023 – 2/24/2023 |
Ballou High School Intervention Workshop 10-11AM: 11AM-12:30PM: 1:30-3:00PM: Journaling |
Outside Field Trip 10-11:00AM: 11:00AM-12:30PM: Lunch 12:30-3:00PM: Reflection |
Ballou High School 10-11AM: Breakfast Think Tank 11AM-12:30PM: Lunch 1:30-3:00PM: Arts and crafts |
Ballou High School 10-11AM: Breakfast Think Tank 11AM-12:30PM: Workshop Spelling Bee 1:30-3:00PM: Aerobics |
Outside Field Trip 10-11:00AM: 11:00AM-12:00PM: Math Play 12:45-3:00PM: Indoor Soccer |
4/18/2023 – 4/21/2023 |
Ballou High School Intervention Workshop 10-11AM: 11AM-12:30PM: 1:30-3:00PM: Journaling |
Ballou High School 10-11AM: Breakfast and Think Tank 11AM-12:30PM: Lunch Art Activity 1:30- 3:00PM: Lunch Career Research |
Outside Field Trip 10-11:00AM: 11:00AM-12:30PM: Lunch 12:30-3:00PM: Reflection |
Ballou High School 10-11AM: Breakfast Think Tank 11AM-12:30PM: Lunch 1:30-3:00PM: Arts and crafts |
Ballou High School 10-11:00AM: Breakfast Think Tank 11:00AM-12:30PM: Write and share about experience with the program 2:00-3:30PM: Closure — |
d. History of Programming for the Target Population
In addition to the services offered to our adult and youth population at the DC Department of Corrections – Correctional Treatment Facility, HFRN will continue to focus on the youth population through its Lifting Youth through Engagement and Empowerment (LYTEE) program. For the last four years, the HFRN has provided summer youth programming to 55 youth within the Congress Heights community. Due to the large success of this program and partnerships with the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), the HFRN will continue to serve the youth population through programming offered at Anacostia and Dunbar high schools. HFRN will serve up to 50 youth between the ages of 14-18 providing the necessary services and resources that will allow these youths the opportunity to meet their full educational and social potential. HFRN will continue serving youth from previous years that have been engaged in other HFRN program offerings – Out-of-School Time and summer program. However, if youth from neighboring schools such as: Ballou and Friendship Public Charter schools opt to participate in program offerings they are welcome to attend as well. One area of importance is that we will continue to utilize our model of providing a place of safety for program participants to be able to socialize and receive the requisite assistance with their individual educational and future professional goals. As well as receive nutritious snacks and meals that will allow them the opportunity to be nurtured mentally and physically.
The Hope Foundation Re-Entry Network (HFRN) facilitated another successful year with our youth participants in the Lifting Youth through Engagement and Empowerment (LYTEE) program. This program year HFRN partnered with the DC Public Schools (DCPS) to implement programming within two high schools – Anacostia and Dunbar. With this opportunity and new partnership, it has allowed HFRN to work with a larger population of youth and be a resource of consistency which has been very successful during the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years. Each LYTEE program participant identified their own individual goals at the onset of the program period. Throughout the year, HFRN staff was able to witness program participant individual goals either being met or exceeded. These outcome measures being met are a direct result of the strong and reliable bond that has been created and maintained with each of our program participants. Here is a synopsis of the successful outcomes: (20) Dunbar students completed the 8-week Ready-Set-Grow entrepreneur program (10) Anacostia students completed the 8-week Ready-Set-Grow entrepreneur program (4) students graduated from Dunbar High School this past June, as a result of their program participation and support from the HFRN team 3 (7) Dunbar and (3) Anacostia students are employed with the HFRN- District Water Company; where they distribute water at community events facilitated with our partner AmeriHealth (23) program participants combined from Anacostia and Dunbar had the opportunity to participate in various financial management workshops such as: “What is savings?”, “What are the Benefits of Saving?” and “How to Save” (19) program participants were promoted to the next grade for the FY’18-19 school year; with only (3) having to attend summer school However, due to the various challenges our program participants persevered and maintained consistent participation in one or a combination of: R Peer 1:1 mentoring sessions, life, employment, and financial literacy workshops, and entrepreneurship trainings.
Staff and Volunteer Qualifications
Hope Foundation staff are highly qualified and sincerely motivated to make a change in this community. Mr. Knight, Founder and Executive Director of the Hope Foundation Re-Entry Network, is a passionate leader who has an undeniably authentic approach to providing services to underserved communities. He has a number of certifications including Certified Professional Coach (CPC), Recovery Coaching, HIV Testing, Anger Management and Effective Parenting. Mr. Knight brings the unique expertise of having the lived experience of facing and overcoming major life obstacles. He has an ability to translate his personal experience of restoration in a way that is universally identifiable and applicable. Mr. Knight developed LYTEE, hand picking the curricula used and has been facilitating a major portion of the psycho-educational groups and entrepreneurship training. Mr. Knight is uniquely talented at building rapport and trust with the youth served by HFRN.
Program Manager, Terrence Davis has over nineteen (19) years of experience working with underserved communities. Through his experience as a Residential Manager, Youth Development Supervisor and Program Manager, Mr. Davis utilized and honed many management skills including program management, program development, staff management and development, curriculum building and coordination and execution of large scale community events. Mr. Davis is also a veteran in developing youth through direct practice services, specializing in mentorship, case management and group, family and individual therapy.
Hope Foundation’s Clinical Director and Trainer, Sal Corbin, has an M.S. in Clinical Psychology and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, holding positions such as the Assistant Director of Psychology at University of Maryland University College and Program Manager of Strive, D.C. Mr. Corbin worked with youth for thirteen (13) years with the National Student Leadership Conference, a summer program emphasizing leadership facilitation and college preparation, but also has a variety of experience including but not limited to organizational management, workforce development, staff development training and academic administration.
Sonya Satterlund, Program Coordinator, earned an MSW with a focus on Social Administration and Nonprofit Management from the University of Pittsburgh and has been working with data analytics for youth and family programs for over a decade. She has experience in overseeing the data and program performance for several programs both in the government (federal and local) and nonprofit environments, including Learn24 funded programs.
Case Manager , Trevor Yee has a Master’s degree in Social Work and years of experience working with underserved youth in case management, process group facilitation and drug aversion programs. Mr. Yee also has program management experience, specifically program development, program evaluation, needs assessments, grant writing, professional development and policy advocacy. Comment by Sonya Satterlund: I don’t see this position in the budget Need a section for Shakitha and any other positions mentioned in the budget
Hope Foundation plans to develop and retain their staff through a variety of means but with an underlying theme of personal and professional growth. Mr. Knight and Mr. Davis will have trainings once a month, focused on youth development, and Mr. Corbin will also facilitate case staffing once every two (2) weeks, concentrating on challenging situations or participant barriers. As mentioned earlier, Advancing Youth Development and other trainings will be encouraged and paid for. Additionally, staff will participant in one-on-one supervision every two (2) weeks with their direct supervisor. These meetings will concentrate on staff’s professional goals and areas of growth within the program. Staff will also be challenged to take the lead in activities they are less experienced in and encouraged to develop new skills outside of their comfort zones.
Youth Involvement
A positive approach to youth development supports the social, emotional, cognitive/intellectual, spiritual, and physical growth of youths and adolescents and engages youth within their communities, schools, organizations, peer groups, and families in a manner that is productive and constructive. In addition, a positive approach to youth development is strengths-based and seeks to enhance the youths’ strengths and build their competencies to help them achieve their full potential.
The youth that the proposed program will serve have a pronounced need for structured programming during out of school times. Most are under-performing academically and could benefit greatly from the academic enrichment the proposed OST program will provide. Though a significant number of the targeted youths will be underperforming academically, it is very unlikely they are receiving academic assistance. Young people on days when schools are out of session go unsupervised and are at high risk of becoming involved with undesirable behaviors. This program will provide a positive outlet, guidance, and well needed enrichment activities for the youths. There will be leadership opportunities throughout the workshops for each program participant.
Evidence Based Curricula to be Provided
Power Source:
Power Source (PS) is a group-based, cognitive-behavioral therapy and mindfulness training (CBT/MT) intervention blends the problem-solving and change components of CBT with the attentional and response modification elements of MT. By combining traditional CBT practices with MT, PS was designed to assist in modulating physiological responses to stressful and risky situations, to encourage prosocial behavioral responses. Leonard and colleagues (2013) evaluated the effectiveness of the Power Source (PS) intervention using the Attention Network Test (ANT) to measure components of attention. For youth in the PS and control groups, scores on all measures decreased from pretest to posttest. The PS group had better results on measures of overall accuracy and response variability, compared with the control group. These differences were statistically significant; however, there was no significant effect on response time. Overall, the preponde
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