Share Your Heart - Helping Children and Families in Need

2. WELCOME “The desire to share your heart is the result of your heart acting in love.” - Isabel - All of us at Victory for Youth would like to welcome you to SHARE YOUR HEART. It is our hope that you will join us in helping the children and their families in our communities. We believe the desire to share your heart is the result of your heart acting in love. We believe that when we all unite for a purpose, the impact we make is far greater than we could imagine. The current times we face are difficult, and the challenges that families are facing are greater than in years past. Furthermore, the ones that are mostly affected are our children. We are committed to helping these families and their children facing these challenges find solutions for a better future. These families are seeking the help of the Department of Children and Families (DCF), so we have partnered up, adopted three service hubs, and we are committed to helping all children and families in need. Thank you for taking the time to learn more about this initiative. Please review this presentation to see how you can help join us in this amazing effort, SHARE YOUR HEART.

3. SHARE YOUR HEART™ encompasses what Victory for Youth has been doing since 1998. It has become our new motto since 2010. • WHAT IS • SHARE YOUR HEART ™ is us spreading our love to the community through our different programs and initiatives such as: • Department of Children and Families investigation waiting hubs providing food and basic need supplies for the children and their families and the Chaplaincy Program • VR Rehabilitation Program providing Job Placement for the disadvantaged and the disabled population. • The 4 Real Program a dynamic live presentation against violence, drugs, bullying and gangs. We reach the youth with real issues using real life stories in our schools. • If You Want to Lead You Must Read Program providing literacy. • CORE Emergency Mass Communication and Food Distribution Preparedness Initiative. • Helping the elderly. • State, Local and Governmental Resource Help Center. • Give Hope / Share Your Heart Donation Boxes • Free “Victory Day” events for our community. • DCF Access Program • USDA SNAP Feeding Program

4. HOW DO WE • SHARE OUR HEARTS? VR Rehabilitation Program We are certified by the Department of Education and we help people with disadvantages and disabilities by equipping them with the skills necessary to become employable and find employment. We receive funding through our Pre-Placement Training and Job Placement Program services.

5. HOW DO WE • SHARE OUR HEARTS? Victory for Youth Printing and Specialties Services, a 501C-3 organization offers in-house full printing services. We manufacture laser checks for QuickBooks and over 2000 softwares, full color printing, stationery, promotional products, labels and apparel. Every order that is placed helps us financially.

6. HOW DO WE • SHARE OUR HEARTS? Customers for the past 12 years we have received in-kind services for our projects, financial donations and products from our very loyal Victory for Youth printing customers.

7. HOW DO WE SHARE OUR HEARTS? • Collaboration with other agencies we have collaborated with state, local and faith based organizations to provide health, financial, educational, job support, counseling, violence prevention resources and in-kind services. Some of our collaborating partners are Department of Education, Department of Health, Social Security Administration, AARP Foundation, Department of Juvenile Justice, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Department of Children and Families. • Private and Corporate Donations • Victory for Youth Website • Fundraising Events and Galas • Sale of Promotion Items and Tee Shirts

8. Victory for Youth Corp is a non-profit 501c 3 organization established in 1998 to provide teens and young adults and their families regardless of race, color or religion, with the knowledge of the programs, services and opportunities available to them. Since 1998, Victory for Youth has done this by reaching out to those who are facing problems with substance abuse, teen pregnancy, physical abuse, gang issues, by bringing resources together such as healthcare organizations, state and county agencies, youth groups, faith-based organizations, and by providing career opportunities through work placement and job training. Victory For Youth has done several projects since 1998 such as “Victory Day” A fun day set aside for our youth, with a meaningful purpose; job training for seniors in collaboration with the AARP program; Counseling Programs; the 4 Real Violence Prevention Program in the schools and job placement for the disadvantaged and special need population. Some of our collaborating partners are the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Children’s and families, the Florida Department of Health, Miami- Dade County Public Schools, and the Florida Department of Education to mention a few. • WHO IS

9. HOW CAN • YOU SHARE • YOUR HEART?

10. EXAMPLE: • HOW IT WORKS? 1 DCF (Department of Children's and Family) SEND US A REFERRAL OF A FAMILY IN NEED (EX: GONZALEZ FAMILY ) 2 GONZALEZ FAMILY NEEDS ASSISTANCE NEED: NO FOOD ADDRESS: 123 West Love blvd, Miami FL 33012 ZIP CODE: 33012

11. 3 Chaplin or Pastor WILL BE CALLED to visit the Gonzalez Family (ZIP CODE: 33012 ) for spiritual and basic needs support. YES, you can invite them to your church as a new family and show them your love.

12. 4 DCF will give the family a Food or clothing voucher to use in the SHARE YOUR HEART™food bank. 5 We can help your church become a DCF ACCESS CHURCH to prepare applications for Food Stamps and Temporary Cash Assistance & Medicaid. 6 * MANDATORY 16 HOURS TRAINING by Baptist South: SPIRITUAL, CRISIS , SUPPORT, BASIC NEEDS.

13. Give HOPE Boxes Clothing donation boxes are placed in key locations for people to drop off unwanted clothing in good, new or like new condition. This clothing is then sold to local businesses and organizations in order to raise funds for the SHARE YOUR HEART ™ initiative. We also use donation boxes to collect non-perishable food, baby and personal hygiene items to donate to the Department of Children and Families service hubs. THIS IS HOW YOU HELP US TO CREATE OUR FOOD BANK

14. EMERGENCY MASS COMMUNICATION AND FEEDING PRE EMERGENCY DURING EMERGENCY AFTER EMERGENCY

15. TRAINING THE CHURCHES • FOR THE EMERGENCY SYSTEM • TRAINING IS BASED ON EACH CHURCH LOGISTICAL CAPABILITY • FOR VOLUNTEERS, HEALTH, FEEDING, SHELTER, DATA ENTRY.

16. 16 HOUR TRAINING / DCF May 18, 2012 DCF STAFF ● DCF – Overview of DCF affected families (to include the culture of DCF “abuse criteria” vs. cultural norms and understandings) CH Staff ● Erik Erikson CH Staff ● Spiritual assessment models -Dimensions of spirituality CH Staff ● Scott Perk’s stages – or five stages of the soul CH Staff ● Active listening Chaplain Escalona ● Caregiver Boundaries ● Confidentiality CH Staff ● How to make a referral – Community Resources - Cumulative stress signs and symptoms CH Staff ● Psychological First Aid – CISM (crisis communication techniques) Operational stress first Aid CH Staff ● Compassion fatigue Chaplain Young ● The road to resilienc Chaplain Brown ● Educative Counseling – healing - guiding – sustaining – reconciling Care & Counseling ● Ongoing support counselors ● Child development and family systems culture differences in child raisings Life Span development (handout) Dept of Health ● Public Health preparedness – disaster plans – The incident command system (ISC) – Point of dispensing - Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)