CTF Check Presentation- December 16

Press Release from Alfred Saliba Center for Families- Alabama Children’s Trust Fund Check Presentation Monday, December 16 at 2:30pm at the Mixson Business Center, 545 W. Main Street, Dothan, AL 36301.

Gregory Smith, Deputy Director of the Alabama Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention (Children’s Trust Fund), will be presenting a check to the Alfred Saliba Center for Families on Monday afternoon at 2:30pm. The check will be presented at the Mixson Business Center located at 545 W. Main Street, Dothan, AL.
Dothan’s Saliba Center for Families is a public, non-profit agency offering a wide array of social services at no cost. We specialize in prevention and intervention services to help strengthen families to help them help themselves. Not only do we offer our direct services, but we also have more than 30 social service agency partners. CTF will present $100K to the Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood Program and $20K to support the Home Instruction for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) Program.

About the Programs

The Saliba Center’s Responsible Fatherhood Program provides services to empower fathers to make healthy and responsible choices that ultimately lead to the social, psychological, and financial well-being of their children. Research states that children with involved, loving fathers are significantly more likely to do well in school, have healthy self-esteem, exhibit empathy and pro-social behavior compared to children who have uninvolved fathers. Pathways serves hundreds of fathers with free parenting classes, healthy relationship and money management workshops, case management, and employment assistance. Most recently, VOICES for Alabama’s Children featured a success story from the Strong Families Department in the 2013 Alabama Kids Count Data Book for helping to improve the lives of children in Houston County by empowering fathers.

Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) is a parent involvement, school readiness program that helps parents prepare their three, four, and five year old children for success in school and beyond. HIPPY Alabama’s mission is to strengthen, sustain, and expand HIPPY programs in Alabama. HIPPY works to ensure that children enter school knowing many things such as: letters, shapes, colors, and motor skills. Parent educators visit the home weekly and deliver a packet of lessons, books, shapes, and enrichment materials. The parent educator makes sure the parent knows how to teach the various lessons, but the parent does the actual teaching.
For more details about this event, please call the Mixson Business Center at (334) 836-0217.
More information about the Alfred Saliba Center for Families can be found at our website www.salibacenter.org.

Sincerely,

Linda O’Connell
Executive Director