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

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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

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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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