Sha JacksonFounder & CEO
Denein A. FordExecutive Assistant
Apostle Lee WilliamsAdvisory Board
Everette SeayPointiac City Councelman
Advisory Board
Hubert PriceSynergisticConsultant
Father Michael Orr, MSJLead Consultant
Fatherhood Initiative Overseer
Bishop Alfonzo SmithSpiritual CounselorSubstance Abuse &
Youth Counselor
Minister Fred Burnette, BSWDirector of Spiritual
Leadership
Minister Henry Timmons, BSCriminal Justice MCE
Director of Education & Finance
Minister Ron MayeDirector of Mentoring
Minister Allen JonesDirector of Youth Diversion
Minister Lance DukeAssistant Director of
Youth Diversion
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AFFILIATESCatholic Community
ResponseCatholic Social Services
Dominion Family ServicesFriend of the CourtMichigan Dept. of
CorrectionsOakland Family Services
15600 W. 12 Mile Road | Southfield, MI 48076Phone: (313) 860-9684 | E-mail: [email protected]
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Subject: PID 15036028100375, Faith in the Son Ministries, Southfield, MI
1. Faith in the Son Ministries (FSM) is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) intervention,
prevention and aftercare male residential program. We provide housing,
education, training, mentoring, employment, counseling, family reunification
with a Fatherhood Initiative, medical services, spiritual guidance to the youth
at risk and returning citizens. Our mission is to bring restoration to families.
We do this by creating a platform that offers a brighter future for our male
youth and by encouraging men to become better sons, better husbands,
better fathers, better brothers, and the best community leaders.
We are committed to family and community unification by assisting
men to become taxpayers, homeowners, businessmen, entrepreneurs and
ultimately mentors.
Fatherhood Initiative Personnel
Father Michael Orr, MSJ, Lead Administrator of the Fatherhood Initiative
Father Michael is a member of the Wayne County Council Against Family
Violence, the Oakland County Coordinating Council against Domestic
Violence, the Governor’s Task Force on Batterer Intervention Service
provider standards, as well as various clergy sub-committees on
domestic violence. He also serves the Southfield
Police Department as one of its
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Chaplains and is a member of the International Conference of Police Chaplains.
Name Title Qualifications Years of Experience
Minister Fred Burnette Program Manager BSW 13Minister Henry Timmons Director of
Education & Finance
B.S. Criminal Justice, M.C.E.
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Minister Ron Maye Director of Mentoring
Founder & CEO of Peaceful Solutions, Male Mentoring Program
9
Bishop Alfonso Smith Family & Substance Abuse Counselor
B.A. Social Work, B. A. Criminal JusticeM.A. Guidance CounselingM.A. Education
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Our demographic group is the city of Pontiac, Michigan, whose residency was
66,337, according to the last census. Single family households make up over 40% of the
population, 25.2% had a female householder with no husband present. The racial makeup
of the city was 39.09% White, 47.92% African American, 12.76% Hispanic or Latino, 0.58%
Native American, 2.40% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, and 9.97% from other races. The
median income for a household in the city was $31,207, and the median income for a family
was $36,391. Males had a median income of $31,961 versus $24,765 for females. About
18.0% of families and 22.1% of the population were below the poverty line.
FSM has established partnerships with the Oakland County
Friend of the Court and Michigan Department of Corrections, Pontiac Parole Office, both of
these agencies work with 90% of the absentee fathers. These agencies will make direct
referrals to FSM under the partnership agreement. In addition, our clergy members and
affiliates send men to our classes and workshops.
2. We support responsible fatherhood, healthy marriage
and economic stability by offering an array
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of classes, such as, Fatherhood Preparation Classes: one-on-one counseling, creating
family, father, and child activities, and field trips, anger management and domestic
counseling, family reunification, life skills, budgeting and financial planning, job preparation,
as well as employment and training. After completion of classes, we offer mentoring,
counseling and alumni support.
FSM has partnerships with Catholic Social Services who assist us with family
counseling and unification, Olive Branch Ministry to assist with family mentoring, Oakland
Family Services to assist fathers with children with disability and developmental delays. All
of our ministers also provide marriage counseling.
3. Our organization for the past 11 years have been working with men between the
ages of 25-50 who have been incarcerated, need to reunify with their families, wish to
reestablish their parental rights, build relationships with their children, address their issues of
child support and have decided to become responsible parents. We have a proven track
record with Michigan Department of Corrections and Friend of the Court in this area.
4. Although our primary focus over the years has been with the absentee fathers as a
result of incarceration, we realize there is an overwhelming need for additional assistance to
the absentee father who has no criminal history, and has no relationship with his children.
FSM is now developing an expansion of our workshops to include servicing an additional
150 men who have abandoned the children, or are intermittent fathers and/or are new
fathers. These workshops will be for 90 days, two hour sessions, two sessions per week
and will include domestic violence, understanding manhood and responsibility, family
matters and decision-making, and quality time versus quantity time.
5. The technical assistance that we need from NFI to
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strengthen our organization would be technical assistance concerning: leadership training,
team building, workshop sessions on program evaluation tools, diversity and cultural
differences training, technical support, and legislative support.
The leadership and team building training will help us further unite our board of
directors, trainers and other staff, to help us to continue to build our initiative for Pontiac and
surrounding geographic areas.
The diversity and cultural differences training will help our board members and staff
to begin understand the different needs and cultural backgrounds of our fathers, and how
the fathers relate to their children, mothers, and significant others, both socially and
economically.
Technical support will be needed for interaction with NFI, government entities, and
any other group that may be related to the project in some fashion. FSM will need legislative
support in order to continue to grow within the community and outside the community. NFI
could guide us through some of the terrain.
6. Over the next several years, we plan to sustain ourselves by being 70% self-
supported and 30% foundation grants, fundraisers and private donors supported. We will
establish a for-profit company that will provide construction and deconstruction as well as
“green” training programs, which will allow us to initiate our Good Neighbors Act Initiative to
refurbish distressed neighborhoods at affordable prices. We currently have a community
outreach initiative that provides construction and handyman services to churches and other
organizations, as well as residential neighbors. We have acquired property and
have leased space to a coalition of businesses for income revenue. Over the
next 5 - 10 years, we plan to manage business and
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training incubators to assist and develop independent entrepreneurs. We will buy and sell
investment property and reinvest the monies into our organization. We will continue to
refurbish homes through our Good Neighbors Act.
Some of the current challenges that we are facing are an overwhelming need for our
services to be offered to more residents than we have room for or funds to serve. There are
a significant number of fathers who wish to participate in our various training opportunities
for employment and they have no funding resources. In addition, we are limited on the
transportation needed to assist the men in attending training classes. We foresee possible
losses of income due to the challenge of spaces being consistently occupied by companies.
We also foresee difficulties in getting mothers to participate with fathers for co-parenting.
Faith in the Son Ministries has over 150 years of collective experience serving the
Pontiac, Michigan community and has dedicated it’s mission to serving the male youth and
men of the community. This makes FSM the natural candidate for this project and mission.
You may contact Sha Jackson at (248) 860-9684 for any additional information. Thank you
for this opportunity and we look forward to working with you.
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Oakland County Friend of the Court
FRIEND OF THE COURT BLDG 2
230 ELIZABETH LAKE ROAD PETER K. DEVER
SUZANNE HOLLYER PONTIAC, MI 48341-0434 CLAUDIA MARTELLO
FRIEND OF THE COURT MAILING ADDRESS: P.O.BOX 436012 PAMELA J. SALA
PONTIAC, MI 48343-6012 CHIEF ASSISTANTS
TELEPHONE: (248) 858-0424 website: www.oakgov.com/foc FAX: (248) 858-0461
November 5, 2009
National Fatherhood InitiativeAttention: Jillian StephensonExecutive CoordinatorNational Responsible Fatherhood Capacity-Building Initiative10 W. All Saints St., #304Frederick, MD 21701
Re: National Fatherhood Initiative
Dear Stephenson,
This is to support the Faith in Son application for funding from the National Fatherhood Initiative. This program, if funded, will provide assistance to parents and families who are involved in our system here at the Office of the Friend of the Court.
The Friend of the Court is familiar with the needs of fathers as we work closely with families in managing child support and parenting time needs of those we serve. We support the efforts of Faith in Son in this area.
Please do not hesitate to contact me directly if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
/S/
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Suzanne Hollyer, DirectorOakland County Friend of the Court248-858-0431
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