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ROOT CAUSE: FAMILY STRUCTURE , SUPPORT AND VALUES
Importance/Significance:
- Prevention of risk factors
- Strong beginnings
- Good Parenting
- Good community members
- Physical support system (friends, family)
- Sense of community, family belonging
- Strength in cultural and family values
Who are the stakeholders?
- Schools: Counselors/Policy makers
- Corporations
- Parents/families
- Programs that strengthen families, with school curriculum developers
- Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and other
- Head Start
- Girl Scouts
- Day Care
- Health Care Providers
- Churches
- Law Enforcement
- Media
- Neighborhood organization
- SafePlace
- CPS
- Politicians
- Celebrities
- UT School of Social Work/UT School of Nursing
- Workforce Development, School to Work, Welfare to Work
- Connections Resource
- CEDEN/Parents Anonymous
- MH providers, counseling and Ofelia project.
- Mentoring programs for kids.
- Faith-based organizations/Metropolitan Ministries
- General population/Community citizens.
- Rotary Clubs and Chambers of Commerce
Where do you go from here?
- Find existing resources and work being done.
- Other successful programs, such as San Antonio's "FAST" program.
- Advocate for funding for programs such as Healthy Families.
- Broaden involvement of community, corporations, churches, and politicians-decision makers. Educating the educators.
- Grassroots cohesiveness of those in need of help. Such as after school programs in East Austin.
- Publicize the need for funding, public awareness of the issues affecting the community, publicize the services, what's available.
- Build on strengths of successful programs.
- Training for teachers and counselors to identify children in trouble or on the verge of acting out. Public having employers.
- Parenting Education and the correlation of important early brain development, good parenting.
- Increase access to resources such as transportation, childcare, transportation, and family time.
- Increase funding for above. Increase access to resources such as shelter, childcare, transportation, and basic needs.
- Clarifying when health habits, lifestyle decisions should occur and to disseminate info so that we appropriate programs can be formed.
- Good role models for kids.
- Analyze curriculum for appropriateness.
- Increase access to sports and activities for lower income families.
- Provide funding for grassroots innovations support network/outreach for those without family structures, (elderly, single moms).
- Make mental health resources available. Counseling, treatment for depression, etc.
- Incentives to pull people into programs
- More accountability and effectiveness of that accountability in programs/providers/families using and needing services.
- Coalition provider programs
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