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Prison
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$15,000
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Human Services
- Population Served:
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Male Adults
Program Description:
Living Stones is active and on the frontline mentoring fathers in and out of prisons on the importance of being active in the lives of their children. We offer a five and twelve week class of Family Relationship I and II to inmates at Wakulla Correctional Institution, where we provide opportunities for men to understand their roles as fathers and parents, how to set boundaries, and manage their anger and conflict resolution. Living Stones is also working in re-entry training and transitional programs for both inmates and ex-offenders. We provided certificates to 65 men and 50 men respectively. To date we have educated over 500 men. Our greatest need is now offering these classes in Spanish and to the community.
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Marriage
- Budget:
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$10,000
- Category:
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Education
- Population Served:
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Adults
Program Description:
Secular research has confirmed that marriage is a blessing. Married men and women are healthier, wealthier, happier, and more faithful, feel more personal fulfillment and have better relationships with their children. Children from married unions are more successful, physically and emotionally healthier. Marriage is the “glue” that holds families together and ultimately our communities. Families are the building blocks of communities. Communities are the building blocks of nations. And nations are the building blocks of civilizations. Living Stones helps singles, couples, divorcees and widowers understand and implement biblical instructions on marriage and family, and to live it every day.
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Fatherhood
- Budget:
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$25,000
- Category:
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Education
- Population Served:
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Male Adults
Program Description:
According to a U.S. Census Bureau report, over 25 million children live apart from their biological fathers. That is 1 out of every 3 (34.5%) children in America. Nearly 2 in 3 (65%) African American children live in father-absent homes. Nearly 4 in 10 (36%) Hispanic children, and nearly 3 in 10 (27%) white children live in father-absent homes.
Children in father-absent homes are five times more likely to be poor. In 2002, 7.8 percent of children in married-couple families were living in poverty, compared to 38.4 percent of children in female-householder families. A child with a nonresident father is 54 percent more likely to be poorer than his or her father.
Living Stones has been involved with several father training programs and has launched its own fatherhood initiative to meet the growing demands of our courts and families to have fathers actively involved in the lives of their children. This program is for the community of the Big Bend Region. Our goal is to become a statewide initiative for fatherhood in Florida.
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Start Smart
- Budget:
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$5,000
- Category:
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Education
- Population Served:
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Adults
Program Description:
Most couples face their most serious challenges during the first three to five years of marriage. Through active marriage preparation, many of these problems can be avoided, or at least minimized, so they don't become toxic to an early marriage. The goal of marriage coaching is to get couples to surface, probe and discuss key issues BEFORE they get married. The Start Smart program offers a step-by-step outline guiding you through the process. In Start Smart we ask engaged couples (and seriously dating) "Do you want the 5-year plan or the 50 year plan?" Our willingness to share our lives and marriage experiences with engaged couples is a key component to the "50 year plan." Living Stones works with a proven research based program for Start Smart and as National Trainers have facilitated training for dozens of marriage coaches and successfully mentored 10 individual couples before marriage.
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Fiscal Builders
- Budget:
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$10,000
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Housing
- Population Served:
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Adults
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Living Stones offers the following services to assist you with homeownership:
Financial Literacy, skill building for budgeting and savings; Business Literacy, career goal setting and entrepreneurial training; and Maintenance Literacy, longevity on how to maintain and sustain homeownership. These classes are offered free to low and moderate income individuals and couples who are seeking affordable housing for themselves and their families. Classes offered are Budgeting, Building a nest egg, Renter versus homeowner, Credit rating, Credit versus debit, Fiscal Builders 101, Fiscal Builders 201, and Retirement, to name a few.
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