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EXHIBIT A <br />PROGRAM COVER PAGE <br />Children's Services Advisory Committee <br />2023-24 Grant Application <br />Organization Name: <br />Hope for Families Center <br />Executive Director Name: <br />Marty Mercado <br />Organization Address: <br />715 4th Place Vero Beach, Florida 32962 <br />Executive Director Email: <br />mmercado(a-hfcvero.org <br />Executive Director Phone: <br />(772) 567-5537 <br />Program Director Name: <br />Stephanie Rennolds <br />Program Director Email: <br />srennolds(aD_hopeforfamiliescenter.org <br />Program Director Phone: <br />(772) 567-5537 <br />Name of Program: Hope for Families Center Shelter Children's Program <br />Focus Area: Build Parent Capacity <br />Description of the Program: <br />The Hope for Families Center is a shelter for families with children under the age of 18. Families are <br />provided with safe, clean shelter, food and services to help them gain stability and self-sufficiency. Adults <br />go through financial literacy training, budgeting, support for employment, and once employed save 75% <br />of their net income for permanent housing. Children are enrolled in appropriate schooling, day care, after <br />school, summer, winter, and spring break camps. While living at the shelter, case management works with <br />adults to attain financial and housing goals, and children for behavioral, emotional and academic support. <br />We work directly with community agencies to lead families to needed supportive services. We have <br />expanded the children's program, now that the Reading Resource Center is completed. The room is <br />manned every evening by a learning coach so that children can work on homework assignments, read <br />quietly, or young children can be read to. The Learning Coach is also available to tutor children who need <br />extra support. <br />M. <br />