Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Best Buddies Palm Beach
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Also Known As:
Mailing Address: 784 US Highway 1, Suite 20
City: North Palm Beach
State: FL
Postal Code: 33408
Main Phone: 561.972.5312
Main Fax: 561.557.2109
Organization Website: www.bestbuddies.org/florida
Employer ID Number: 52-1614576
Organization Tax Status: 501c3

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: 3/7/2018
Requested Amount: $10,000

Project Title: Palm Beach Friendship & Leadership
Project Description:

Our mission is to end social isolation for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) by creating opportunities for friendship between students with and without IDD at schools throughout Palm Beach. We also provide leadership trainings throughout the year that teach students with IDD the skills necessary to advocate for themselves and build more inclusive communities. Our program educates the general education students about the many abilities of their peers with IDD and fosters the growth of mutually enriching one-to-one friendships. Through our leadership trainings, we help students with and without IDD become advocates for social change and leaders of the disability movement. As a result of their participation in Best Buddies, students with disabilities learn new social, academic, employment and life skills while expanding friendships and activities with their general education peers. General education students increase their disability awareness, enhance their personal growth and develop citizenship skills.

Total Project Budget: $356,093

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): A grant from the Florida Department of Education (commited) | A grant from the Mirasol Foundation (potential)

Project Duration: Academic school year 2018-2019
Geographical Area Served: Palm Beach
Age Group To Be Served: Elementary, Middle, and High School students

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Ms.
Contact First Name: Tricia
Contact Last Name: Williams
Contact Title: Area Director
Contact Phone: 561.972.5312
Contact Email: TriciaWilliams@bestbuddies.org

Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: The Victory Center, Inc.
Legal Name (if Different):
Also Known As: The Victory School
Mailing Address: 18900 Northeast 25th Avenue
City: North Miami Beach
State: Florida
Postal Code: 33180
Main Phone: 305-466-1142
Main Fax: 305-466-1143
Organization Website: www.thevictoryschool.org
Employer ID Number: 650968171
Organization Tax Status: 501(c)(3)

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: March 06, 2018
Requested Amount: $10,000

Project Title: The Victory Vocational Program
Project Description:

The Victory Vocational Program, unique to the South Florida community, is a center-based program for students ages 14-22 affected by autism and other related neurological disabilities who are unable to obtain a high school diploma. Students with autism experience a broad range of challenges, often limiting them to a life of dependency. The Vocational program is an effort to break that cycle, focusing on vocational training and daily living skills that prepare students to be more independent as he or she transitions to adulthood. The program is underscored by four primary principles: functional academics, domestic living, vocational training, and community skills. The program boasts a variety of experiences, providing students instruction in the classroom, a campus-based home environment, in community settings, and with neurotypical peers from local high school programs.

All students learn self-care skills, health, hygiene, navigating public transportation, appropriate behavior in social situations, attending appointments, and job skills training. These skills are taught using the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis and facilitated by instructors professionally trained in the areas of education, behavior analysis, and other related services.

The program is ideal for students behind in grade level or requires an adapted curriculum, those who experience negative peer interactions in traditional educational settings, have difficulty learning in large groups, exhibit maladaptive behavior, or those who have trouble finding meaningful employment.

Students enrolled in the program operate on highly individualized data-driven education plans that address the specific needs of each student. Students are assessed quarterly using the Community Based Functional Skills Assessment and that data is collected using the cutting-edge Catalyst Data Collection platform, best positioning instructors to adequately and accurately monitor student progress and program success.

Total Project Budget: $214, 196.00

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): Unrestricted gifts from special events and annual appeal

Project Duration: Year-round
Geographical Area Served: Palm Beach County, Broward County, Miami-Dade County
Age Group To Be Served: 14-22

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Mr.
Contact First Name: Darian
Contact Last Name: Burrell-Clay
Contact Title: Development Associate
Contact Phone: 305-466-1142
Contact Email: dburrellclay@thevictoryschool.org

Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Center for Trauma Counseling, Inc.
Legal Name (if Different): N/A
Also Known As: CTC
Mailing Address: 6801 Lake Worth Road, Suite 307
City: Greenacres
State: FL
Postal Code: 33467
Main Phone: 561-444-3914
Main Fax: N/A
Organization Website: www.palmbeachmentalhealth.org
Employer ID Number: 45-4708248
Organization Tax Status: 501 (c)(3)

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: 3/6/2018
Requested Amount: $5,000

Project Title: Child and Adolescent Trauma Counseling
Project Description:

The Center for Trauma Counseling provides targeted mental health counseling to children and adolescents that have experienced varying forms of trauma and abuse. Our services provide tools and resources to manage and eliminate the negative effects these incident(s) have on each child’s well-being and future outcomes. Our treatment plan approach utilizes a variety of modalities with a major emphasis on Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Peer and Group Counseling.

Our program operates in Palm Beach County, Florida and is targeted to children and adolescents 3-18 who are uninsured or under-insured and who have been impacted by a traumatic event or abuse. Traumatic events include; bullying, car accidents resulting in major injury or death, mass shootings and fear of mass shootings, unexpected death of a parent or sibling, etc. Forms of abuse include; physical, sexual, mental, and emotional as well as abandonment and neglect.

Each client’s course of treatment typically spans 6-8 weeks, based on one to two sessions per week, and is predicated on severity of presenting symptoms. However, it is clinically appropriate for clients to receive longer-term therapy in some cases. Thus, the extent of services naturally varies based on individual client needs.

The Center for Trauma Counseling’s objectives includes:

• Provide mental health intervention services within a 48-hour period from time of referral.
• Provide critical intervention with immediate service to self-referral and walk-in clients.
• Increasing the availability of immediate, short and long-term services using a minimum of two regularly scheduled peer and group counseling sessions per week
• Increasing the availability of mental health intervention services for youth and families through consistent outreach and coordination with community based programs

Total Project Budget: $47,848.00

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): The Batchelor Foundation – $5,000 – Received; Mary Alice Fortin – $5,000 – Received; The Sandy Hill Foundation – $5,000 – Pending; Mirasol – $6,000 – Pending; Junior League of Boca Raton – $2,500 – Pending

Project Duration: Our Child and Adolescent Program is on-going. However, for the purposes of this proposal, any funding awarded will be expended during the 2018-2019 fiscal year.
Geographical Area Served: Palm Beach County
Age Group To Be Served: 3-18

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Mrs.
Contact First Name: Helya
Contact Last Name: Ortiz
Contact Title: Executive Director
Contact Phone: 561-444-3914
Contact Email: helya@palmbeachmentalhealth.org

Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Child Rescue Coalition, Inc.
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Also Known As:
Mailing Address: 4530 Conference Way S
City: Boca Raton
State: FL
Postal Code: 33431
Main Phone: 561-988-4261
Main Fax: 561-892-0454
Organization Website: https://childrescuecoalition.org
Employer ID Number: 45-5358378
Organization Tax Status: 501(c)3

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: 01/02/2018
Requested Amount: $7,500

Project Title: The Innocence Project
Project Description:

The blissful innocence of childhood only comes around once for each of us; imagine if that were forcefully taken away from you. Sadly, children are being victimized every day all over the world. Approximately 300,000 children are sexually abused every year in the United States along with millions more worldwide.

Protecting Innocence Through Technology is a primary goal of Child Rescue Coalition’s The Innocence Project. This goal reflects CRC’s mission to rescue children from sexual abuse by building and providing advanced technology for law enforcement, free of charge, to track, arrest, and prosecute child predators. Since its 2013 founding, CRC has developed a global reach.

Over 10,000 law enforcement officers from all 50 U.S. states and 79 countries use CPS Technology. Through proactive partnerships with law enforcement, CRC tools have aided in the arrest of over 9,800 predators and the rescue of over 2,300 children from sexual exploitation and abuse. Partners include child exploitation investigators, police officers, digital forensic experts, prosecutors, child welfare agencies, and corporate and private philanthropists; all of whom work together to apprehend and convict abusers of children, rescue those in harm’s way, and ultimately, prevent abuse from happening in the first place.

Through CRC’s collective efforts with law enforcement, it has become possible to quickly track, arrest, and convict predators who use the Internet to destroy the lives of young children, and to rescue their innocent targets. CPS Technology gives law enforcement access to detailed information about abuse in their areas that they cannot access elsewhere. Wherever perpetrators use the Internet and ‘dark web’, they can be found, exposed, and STOPPED by law enforcement officials.

Total Project Budget: $350,000

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): Committed funding for 2018: • Ronald McDonald Charities • The Salah Foundation • Yahoo Employee Foundation • Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office Law Enforcement Trust Fund • George W. Jenkins within the Givewell Community Foundation as part of the Impact Polk grant cycle • New York Community Trust Pending funding for 2018: • C Olsen 1990 • Edward T. Bedford Foundation • Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office Law Enforcement Trust Fund • Broward Sheriff’s Office Law Enforcement Trust Fund

Project Duration: 12 months from receipt of funding
Geographical Area Served: All 50 states
Age Group To Be Served: Approximately 300,000 children are sexually abused every year in the United States as reported by the National Center for Victims of Crime. The Center’s retrospective research indicates that as many as 1 out of 4 girls and 1 out of 6 boys will experience some form of sexual abuse before the age of 18. Children are most vulnerable to child sexual abuse between the ages of 7 and 13 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control).

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Ms
Contact First Name: Elisa
Contact Last Name: Pisana
Contact Title: Office Manager
Contact Phone: 561-988-4261
Contact Email: elisa@childrescuecoalition.org