Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: BREAKTHROUGH Featuring LIL-KAGE Curriculum (B.L.K.)
Legal Name (if Different): Same as Above
Also Known As: N/A
Mailing Address: 1643 12th Avenue
City: Oakland
State: California
Postal Code: 94606
Main Phone: 5109881170
Main Fax: N/A
Organization Website: http://www.pdrawsand.wixsite.com/breakthrough-lilkage
Employer ID Number: 86-1335280
Organization Tax Status: 501(C)(3)

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: 2/4/2024
Requested Amount: 10,000

Project Title: 6 Weeks Curriculum and School Schedule: Teaching Youth How To End Hostilities and Violence Prevention:
Project Description:

Monday:
• 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Introduction to Conflict Resolution
• 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Communication Skills for Peaceful Interactions

Tuesday:
• 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Understanding Anger and Anger Management
• 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Building Empathy and Compassion

Wednesday:
• 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Exploring the Impact of Bullying and

Cyberbullying
• 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Strategies for Bullying Prevention

Thursday:
• 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Conflict in the Digital Age – Online Etiquette and

Cybersecurity
• 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Collaborative Activities for Peacebuilding

Friday:
• 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Healing Circle Art Class

Teaching Youth How 2-End Hostilities
• A 6-week curriculum taught Monday through Thursday twice daily.
• An art class taught on Friday consisting of an art’s project will be implemented to give the students an opportunity to express themselves.
• The budget will be $10,000/monthly that includes 2 Certified Instructors, Curriculum, and Supplies.
• This is in collaboration with OUSD and Alameda County students from middle school to high school and young adults.
• Students will earn a certificate of completion. This is part one of the curriculum.
• Guess speakers and field trips will be implemented into the program
Target Populations
Teenagers, and At -Risk Youth ages 13-18 who live in Oakland and Alameda County.

Outcomes
Deliverables: Submit to funder, within 12 months of receiving final budget clearance, a comprehensive Planning and Implementation Guide detailing and mapping the project.
Funding will be used: Implementation and/or training of staff on using validated assessment tools with model fidelity and high interrater reliability to effectively assess individual youth’s unique risk factors and needs. To provide a comprehensive, collaborative services to ensure youth’s success which could include:
• A description on how the youth and family will directly be involved in developing the individualized education plan.
• A description on how facility and community-based providers will implement a standard in the planning process.
• A description of the process and timeframe that the facility and provider will use to develop and implement a humane and individualized plan that directly involves youth and family participation.
• To provide a plan and description that includes youth voice and family engagement in planning.
Delivery of transitional services to help reentering successfully integrate into their communities, which could include:
• Educational, literacy, and vocational services and transitional job strategies
• Substance use disorder treatment and services
• Coordinated services, including physical and mental healthcare
• Permanent supportive housing
• Family services
• Prosocial activities
• Mentoring
Youth Training and Technical Assistance
The training and technical assistance provider will provide support and guidance to Youth grantees and practitioners to improve community supervision practices, produce better outcomes for youth and communities, reduce recidivism, improve public safety, and enhance jurisdictions’ access to the tools and training to adequately identify, as well as effectively serve, these youth’s needs.
The multidisciplinary team are experts in implementation science, community supervision, adolescent development, trauma-informed care, data analysis, and performance measurement will help the selected jurisdictions improve their community supervision programs, policies, and practices. Applicants will be required to address the following three areas:
• Program will consider youth’s needs, as well as a youth’s strengths and assets by utilizing a strengths-based approach that involves getting to know a youth’s culture, qualities, characteristics, interests, skills, talents, abilities, and family connections.
Youth Fellowship Program:
The Youth provider will develop a fellowship program. Youth Fellows will directly participate in delivering and shaping resources for youth that support youth, families, and communities.

The Youth Fellows will receive:
• Training and mentoring from the provider’s coaches on how to translate their lived experience into effective advocacy for policy and practice reform.
• Broad exposure to state, local, and community-based juvenile justice practice and system reform work.
• Opportunities to participate in internal and external stakeholder meetings, forums, conferences, briefings, round tables, and other relevant events for the purpose of informing and supporting juvenile reentry practice and policy.

Youth Resources — will provide:
An assessment of the youth’s performance and provide coaching through monthly calls to:
• Review youths’ progress toward their goals in accordance with the project timeline
• Identify issues and provide feedback to the youth
• Discuss and review draft deliverables and other grant-related materials

Total Project Budget: $10.000

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): OUSD, City of Oakland Violence Prevention Department

Project Duration: 6 weeks taught twice daily Monday -Friday
Geographical Area Served: 13-18 inner city BIPOC students attending Oakland Unified School District
Age Group To Be Served: 13-18

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Ms.
Contact First Name: Priscilla
Contact Last Name: DrawSand
Contact Title: Director
Contact Phone: 510.988.1170
Contact Email: PDrawSand@breakthroughlilkage2.onmicrosoft.com