Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Trinity Mentoring
Legal Name (if Different): Trinity Equestrian Center Kids Kamp, Inc.
Also Known As:
Mailing Address: S5300 WI-37
City: EAU CLAIRE
State: Wisconsin
Postal Code: 54701
Main Phone: 7158354530×1016
Main Fax:
Organization Website: www.trinity-ec.com
Employer ID Number: 20-0446590
Organization Tax Status: 501c3

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: 3/9/2023
Requested Amount: 10,000

Project Title: Every Kid’s Backyard
Project Description:

Trinity’s Youth Mentoring Program is uniquely located on a 67-acre horse ranch, established with the mission to empower local young people through positive inspiration and guidance to help reach their goals. We are a family-owned 501c3 non-profit that has been providing Mental Health Services, Youth Mentoring, and Skills Workshops for over 20 years. We serve children in 16 Wisconsin counties who are in at-risk environments, have specific mental health needs, and/or who are survivors of abuse, violence, trauma, significant mental health struggles, and more. Trinity provides evidence-based Daily Living Skills Training by professional Mentors and is clinically supervised by a Wisconsin Licensed Professional Counselor. Our program is community-based and contracts with local Human & Family Services agencies to create treatment plans and recovery goals to best serve each individual Mentee. Trinity currently has 69 Youth Mentors working in our community servicing 103 youth, ages 5-18, and another 68 individuals on our waitlist to receive services.

To better children who do not have access to a safe place to run and play, dig in the dirt, and throw a football or baseball, we want to provide our at-risk youth with a high-energy environment where they can learn how to maintain a mentally healthy lifestyle. Our goal is to transform and improve an unused horse pasture into a safe, kid-friendly, skill-building environment, including an adaptive garden area and a kickball field. A complete handicap-accessible playground will engage our children in services while helping them to cultivate new skills, such as positive communication, emotional regulation, and social awareness, and do so in a safe space while engaging in one-on-one Mentoring. With the worldwide shift towards preserving our mental wellbeing, teaching healthy coping skills to young kids and teenagers has never been more important.

Total Project Budget: 38,000

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): Committed: The Pablo Foundation, The Green Bay Packers Foundation, Community Foundation of Chippewa County, Prestige Motors, Burstad Insurance

Project Duration: 6 months, April through September of 2024
Geographical Area Served: 16 counties in Western Wisconsin
Age Group To Be Served: ages 5-18

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Mrs.
Contact First Name: Lisa
Contact Last Name: Fugett Zabkiewicz
Contact Title: Resource Development Professional
Contact Phone: 8477672089
Contact Email: lisaf@trinity-ec.com