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Kinship Care & Connections FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN MAY 2022 - MAY 2024 The Friends of Foster Children’s Kinship Care and Connections program provides a series of educational classes for caregivers who suddenly find themselves thrust into raising children. The classes provide kinship caregivers much needed support and help them navigate the confusing child dependency system. This grant also provides funds to expand Foster Parents' Night Out, a program designed so caregivers can enjoy some self-care while the children are engaged with supervised activities and dinner at the center.
Sustainable Agricultural Education Initiative MARINE EDUCATION INITIATIVE
MAY 2022 - MAY 2024
The Initiative’s Sustainable Agriculture Education program will introduce the next generation of learners to sustainable agriculture and aquaponics techniques to inspire them to pursue related careers in the future and help prevent a global food shortage. This grant allowed the project to hire their educator full time to lead groups of up to 15 students, ages 9 to 16, twice per week through the process of testing water quality, discussing water physics, learning fish and plant anatomy, and discussing the nitrification cycle. Each group visits the farm twice, once to initially plant seeds and then again to come back and harvest their planted crops. The food they harvest is then donated to Boca Helping Hands Soup Kitchen, and children leave the program knowing they gave back to their community, as well as with sustainable agriculture knowledge. Marine Education
Key Impacts
25 average number of caregivers completing 4-week curriculum Foster Parents' Night Out 149% of child welfare system 70% increase in children attending increase in caregiver knowledge increase in volunteers working at Foster Parents' Night Out 150%
Students educated through the program Key Impacts
100 1000
High school and college volunteers
6
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