Grants and Other Financial Assistance Programs: FY2008
Pathways to Family Success
Fund Code: 671, 673, 674
MEMORANDUM
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Pathways to Family Success Pilot Communities
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| From: |
Bob Bickerton, Associate Commissioner
Anne Serino, Adult and Community Learning Services (ACLS) Administrator
Kathy Rodriguez, Massachusetts Family Literacy Consortium (MFLC) Coordinator
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| Date: |
May 2007
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| Subject: |
Year Six of Pathways to Family Success
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Over the past five years, MFLC funding has supported your communities in creating new relationships and opportunities to assist families in need. During this time, the communities have taken initial steps towards the MFLC vision that all Massachusetts children and adults achieve their full personal, social, and economic potential by:
working with a range of community partners, including MFLC member networks, focused on the needs of whole families and a broad commitment to family and community success;
using events, trainings, brochures, newsletters, and other tools to help partners take initial steps towards changing their beliefs and practices related to service delivery for families in need; and
creating in-depth projects to demonstrate that small amounts of MFLC 'catalyst' funding enable providers to 'glue together' existing education, workforce, health, and human services for children and adults in the same family, including integrated health and work related curriculum.
Enclosed is the FY2008 Pathways to Family Success Request for Proposals (RFP) for Year Six of this six-year initiative. Adult and Community Learning Services will accept applications on behalf of our MFLC partners through July 5, 2007. Late applications may jeopardize the availability of funding on September 1. Attached please find:
- Budget Pages;
- Required Program Information, including Attachment A;
- Required Forms; and
- Additional Information.
There are several items to which you should pay careful attention.
We anticipate continuing to provide an MFLC liaison to each of your communities. The in-depth projects that involve gluing together services for children and adults in the same family should have sufficiently detailed MOAs/MOUs that specify the roles, responsibilities, and contributions of the partners. In particular, the Department is interested in the contributions and participation of the original required partners: Community Partnerships for Children; Head Start; Title I; and Adult Basic Education (ABE). The MOAs/MOUs should be on file in your communities.
The MFLC is recommending strongly that communities commit to providing a 1.0 FTE Pathways Coordinator using, if needed, a combination of Pathways and local resources.
During this sixth year of funding, the MFLC will focus on documenting local conditions, challenges, achievements, improvements in service delivery for families, and what it would take to replicate the coordinated in-depth projects.
We look forward to reading your applications and learning about your progress in building replicable models of coordinated and integrated services for Massachusetts families in need.
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