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Family Sunshine Center Receives Notification of Children’s Trust Fund Grant

On August 1, 2009, the FSC received notification from the Alabama Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention (Children’s Trust Fund) that it has been awarded $23,000.00 to provide violence prevention education in Montgomery Public Schools.   “This is one of the first sources of funding that our agency was able to secure to help support our outreach and education programs in the communities we serve,” said FSC Executive Director Karen Sellers.  This year, the agency will use that money to help support its prevention education in 12 Montgomery County public schools.

Children’s Trust Fund dollars help support the agency’s PriMary Prevention Education program.  A major part of that program is providing the exemplary Second Step curriculum to fourth grade classrooms in Montgomery public schools.  This year, the agency will provide life skills training in impulse control, respect, problem-solving, anger management and bullying prevention in the following schools: Catoma, Crump, Dannelly, Floyd, Hayneville Road, Harrison, Head, Highland Gardens, Johnson, King, Morris, and Nixon elementary schools.

In addition to providing the Second Step curriculum in the 12 targeted schools, the Family Sunshine Center’s Outreach and Prevention section is also available to do one-time presentations to schools in Montgomery County, as well as those in Autauga, Butler, Chilton, Crenshaw, Elmore and Lowndes counties.  These presentations include Yello Dyno, which is a personal safety curriculum available to children pre-K through 6th grade, and Bullying, Anger Management, Problem Solving, Impulse Control, and Building Empathy and Respect, all of which are available to children pre-K through 9th grade.

“We appreciate the fact that the Children’s Trust Fund continues to have confidence in the services we provide, and we look forward to our continuing positive relationship with the leadership of Montgomery Public Schools and the individual schools we will serve this school year,” Sellers said.