CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC APPLICATION GRIC 2017.PDF

Last updated: 02/15/2017
General information
Organization Christian Family Care Agency Inc
Contact First name Gary
Contact Last name Miller
Contact e-mail gmiller@cfcare.org
Contact phone number 602 396-2705
Address
Street 3603 North 7th Avenue
City Phoenix
State Arizona
ZIP Code 85013
From what tribe is the organization requesting the grant?
Gila River Indian Community
Total grant amount request
20000
The Gila River Indian Community offers multi-year awards. If your organization is
requesting a multi-year grant for this project or program from the Gila River Indian
Community, enter the amount to be requested each year.
Amount
Year 1 (Gila River Indian Community Grants Only) 20000
Year 2 (Gila River Indian Community Grants Only)
Year 3 (Gila River Indian Community Grants Only)
Year 4 (Gila River Indian Community Grants Only)
Year 5 (Gila River Indian Community Grants Only)
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Gila River Indian Community Grant Application
Grant Cycle 2017
Cover Sheet
Municipality Information
1. Date of Application: 2/28/2017 (NOTE: Click or use up/down arrow keys to move among fields)
2. Name of City, Town or County: Maricopa County
3. Mayor (City or Town) or Board of Supervisor’s Chairman (County): Chairman Denny Barney
4. Mailing Address: 301 W Jefferson, 10th Floor
5. City: Phoenix State: Arizona Zip Code: 85003
6. Acknowledgement of Submission by Authorized Municipality Representative:
Typed Name/Title: Melody Henderson Signature:
Applicant Information
7. Department/Organization Name: Christian Family Care
8. Is this a 501c non-profit Organization? No Yes If yes, attach IRS Determination Letter
9. Application Contact Person: Gary Miller Title: Director of Marketing & Advancement
10. Phone Number: 602-396-2705
11. Mailing Address: 3603 N 7th Ave
12. City: Phoenix State: Arizona Zip Code: 85013
13. Email Address: gmiller@cfcare.org Website Address: cfcare.org
Project Information
14. Project Name: Wrap-Around Program - Ensuring Healthy Adoptions of Foster Children 5-17 years of Age
15. Purpose of Grant: This program provides counseling, coaching, and training to families adopting foster
children (5-17 years) to ensure healthy adoptions.
16. Priority Funding Area Healthcare
17. Annual amount requested $20,000
18. Number of years that funding is 1
requested
19. Total amount requested (annual $20,000
amount x number of years)
20. Has your organization received past No
funding from GRIC? If yes, list each year
and amount
21. Geographic area served State-wide
For Office Use Only:
Data Entry Receipt Evaluation
Outcome  Approval Recommended/Amount $  Denial

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Narrative
Please structure your proposal to provide the following information in the order indicated. Provide the narrative
in paragraph form in the text field provided. Please be thorough but strive for brevity.
1. Briefly describe the organization’s history, mission and goals.
The mission of Christian Family Care is strengthening families and serving at-risk children in the name of
Jesus Christ. Christian Family Care provides a broad spectrum of services that promote the physical and
emotional well-being of Arizona children and families. These services include: Foster Care; Adoption; Child
and Family Counseling including Family Attachment Counseling and Pregnancy Counseling.
CFC was founded in 1982 by Kay Ekstrom to meet the needs of children in the Arizona welfare system. The
organization was built on the belief that every child should be loved and nurtured in a family. The number of
children entering Arizona’s foster care system is steadily increasing and is currently overloading with over
17,000 neglected and abused children. The average child spends 27 months in foster care in 3 different
homes. CFC provides part of the groundwork to meet the increasing need for foster families and works to build
awareness around the Arizona children that are adoptable but with no plan for adoption and are languishing in
foster group homes. The children available for adoption are often the most difficult children for which to find
homes. They need healing from abuse, neglect, trauma, and rejection through the support of a family. We are
opening the doors of the faith-based community to these foster children.
With the vision of seeing every child loved and nurtured in a Christ-centered family, within the next ten years it
is our goal to grow Christian Family Care into the primary resource for connecting families with vulnerable
children in Arizona in order to change the life trajectory of every child. CFC’s goal for the next decade is to
serve over 5,000 at-risk children annually through our prevention, foster care, in-home support, adoption, and
counseling services.
We intend to increase capacity for change through high-impact social services that focus on programs that
directly serve at-risk children and families. New programs in the works include mentoring, childcare, parent-aid,
parent training (at-risk family focused), age-out homes, and more.
We also have a emphasis on social advocacy in our communities, cities, and state that focuses on improving
the well-being for children and families through the legislative constructs of our culture. We partner with the
Governor, DCS, State Legislators, the World Congress of Families, Heritage Foundation, and others to
promote policy that supports and promotes children and family.
2. If the applying organization is non-municipal or a non-profit 501c, please describe your relationship with
Arizona municipalities including past and present support, whether it be through partnerships,
collaborations, in-kind contributions, grants, tax-based funding or other. Describe the supporting
municipality’s role in this project. If the applying organization is a municipality governmental sub-
division please enter the text “Not applicable.”

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Maricopa County supports Christian Family Care’s application to this grant. Christian Family Care has been an
approved Maricopa County employee giving non-profit organization for the past few years.
3. Describe the proposed project and planned goals and activities.
The Wrap-Around Program Ensuring Healthy Adoptions of Foster Children 5-17 years of Age (Wrap-Around)
encourages the parent that the journey is long and winding, but they are not alone and they can do this;
elevates the parent to understanding trauma parenting begins in the trenches, together they will cause the
child to rise above; and equips parents with the resources and tools from others who have made the journey.
The Wrap-Around Program is a needs-based program to prevent the disruption or removal of the child from the
home with an intended outcome of preservation of the highest-risk placements. The Wrap-Around Program
was specifically developed to provide pre and postadoption counseling, developmental and preparatory
parenting and educational services to adopted persons, adoptive families and kinship families – exceeding well
beyond what the Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS) requires for foster care and placement. The Wrap-
Around Program is a needs-based program to prevent the disruption or removal of the child from the home
with an intended outcome of preservation of the highest-risk placements.
Access to support services is a critical factor in the outcomes for these children and their adoptive families and
the success of their adoptions. Adoptive families face significant challenges in finding resources or programs
specific to the effects of preadoption experiences on children’s intellectual and social functioning, children’s
ability to form attachments to their adoptive families, and children’s overall development in light of early abuse
and neglect and foster care placements along with the issue of being able to afford the much-needed services.
Wrap-Around is provided for the benefit of the adoptive parents and the child. The purpose is to encourage,
elevate, and equip the adult to parent the child who has been placed into care. By the fact that the child is
adopted or being adopted means he/she has at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE) indicator and
according to research findings, ACEs do not occur alone. If the child has one ACE indicator, then there is an
87% chance they have two or more. An ACE score of four or more is considered significant trauma. The
objective of the Wrap-Around services is to help the adults become trauma-informed parents so that in time the
adult’s skills and strengths as a compassionate parent enable them to lead their child to resiliency. Adoption is
about parents joining their child in their despair, and then helping them find the way out into hope and healing.
CFC currently holds a disruption (or removal rate) of 1 percent versus the State's rate of 14 percent. CFC also
surveys adoptive parents biannually to measure the satisfaction of services received with a continued goal of
90 percent satisfaction rate. And finally, the program will be measured through the Stancil stress test which is
administered at the beginning and end of services, at the final home visit, the 1st year finalization anniversary
and 5th year finalization anniversary
4. Describe how the proposed project satisfies one or more of the priority funding areas identified by the
Gila River Indian Community.
This program directly positively effects the health and well-being children in the Arizona foster care system
thus satisfying the health-care priority funding area.
5. Identify the needs/problems to be addressed, target population and number of people to be served by
the project.

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Arizona currently has 2,600 foster children available for adoption, 66% being over the age of 5 years old. The
older the child, the more the child is seen as unadoptable by society because they may have more behavioral
issues due to the trauma he/she has faced in their short life.
Adoptive teens and children often struggled to deal with their adopted families and may lash out, run away, are
behind in school and may take years to adjust without specialized coaching and counseling for the entire
family, including the adopted child and other biological children in the home. Without extra care, families will
often resort to a dissolution of the adoption or have the child removed before the adoption is final. Once again
the child will find themselves feeling rejected and in the care of the state with no family.
These kids languish in group homes and are least likely to find adoptive homes. They become "part of the
system" and the subject of sordid headlines, with less academic achievement, poorer health, and lower self-
esteem than their peers. Teenagers that "age out" of the system without a connection to a family have a 70%
chance of becoming homeless, drug addicted, pregnant, incarcerated, or dead by age 21 according to 2016
statistics by the US Department of Health & Human Services.
Over the next 12 months, CFC’s goal is to support 117 adoptive families adopting foster children 5 years and
older.
6. Define the project as a new or continuing program.
Continuing
7. Provide a brief timeline including start and finish dates. Indicate if the timeline is flexible.
Wrap-Around is designed to be short term (6-8) counseling sessions that help a family avoid disruption. CFC
has a very low disruption rate compared to the state average. This means that foster and adoptive parents are
eligible for the service, as well as the children. CFC’s Wrap-Around counselors help parents identify behaviors
and their triggers. Many of the child’s behaviors have to do with trauma or loss that the child has experienced
in their past. Wrap-Around services help to equip the parents and child to deal with those behaviors and heal
from past trauma.
8. Identify other organizations, partners or funders participating in the project and their roles.
Christian Family Care works with the Arizona Department of Child Safety to ensure child are placed in loving
homes. Christian Family Care is primarily funded by individual donors.
9. Would you be able to implement the proposed plan if your organization received partial funding for this
project?
The Wrap-Around program will continue to serve the families in need but each additional dollar, no matter big
or small, will help create a bigger impact on the success of these families and more.
10. Describe your plan for project sustainability beyond the grant period. If this is a program/project
previously funded by the Gila River Indian Community describe efforts made towards the previously
described sustainability plan.

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With great conviction, as to the identified needs and impact that the Wrap-Around Program provides to
adoption families, CFC does not charge for the services. This program is primarily supported through private
funding, grants and foundations whose mission is to support families and children and has been in existence
from the beginning of the organization.
11. Describe your plan to document progress and results.
CFC surveys adoptive parents biannually to measure the satisfaction of services received with a continued
goal of 90 percent satisfaction rate. And, the program will be measured through the Stancil stress test which is
administered at the beginning and end of services, at the final home visit, the 1st year finalization anniversary
and 5th year finalization anniversary.
12. Indicate any application to and/or awards made by a tribe other than the Gila River Indian Community
for state shared revenues for this and any other project for the past five (5) years. If this information is
included in a separate attachment, please indicate that here.
There has been no awards by a tribe ever to Christian Family Care.

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Project Budget
Budget Period: January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017
For each budget item listed here please provide a narrative description on the following Project Budget Detail
page.
Proposed Budget Expense Amount Amount In Kind Total Budget
(list each budget item) requested from requested or contributions
GRIC secured from
other funders
1. Salary & Wages $20,000 $36,024 $0 $56,024
2. Insurance & Benefits $0 16397.54 $0 16397.54
3. Depreciation $0 $59.28 $0 $59.28
4. Professional Development $0 382.49 $0 382.49
5. Rent/Utilities/Phone/IT $0 $4,502.45 $0 $4502.45
6. Supplies/Materials $0 $200.09 $0 $200.09
7. Travel $0 $1,975.60 $0 $1,975.60
8. Postage/Delivery $0 $66.71 $0 $66.71
9. Other Expenses $0 $2070.87 $0 $2070.87
10. Insurance Expenses $0 $767.41 $0 $767.41
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Total Budget $20,000 $62,446.44 $0 $82,446.44

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Project Budget Detail
Please provide a narrative description for each of the project budget items listed on the previous page. Include
the dollar figure and how it was derived.
1. Professional counselor and supervision
2. Employee benefits and taxes
3. Depreciation of equipment
4. Continued Education
5. Internet/phone/room for counselor
6. Supplies used in counseling
7. Travel, site visits with families
8. Mail costs
9. Other expenses, including materials & supplies for child/family visits
10. Property and liability Insurance
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