Sha Jackson

Founder & CEO

Denein A. Ford PID 1503602810037

Executive Assistant
Subject: PID 15036028100375, Faith in the Son Ministries, Southfield, MI
Apostle Lee Williams
Advisory Board
1. Faith in the Son Ministries (FSM) is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) intervention,
Everette Seay
Pointiac City Councelman prevention and aftercare male residential program. We provide housing,
Advisory Board

Hubert Price education, training, mentoring, employment, counseling, family reunification

Synergistic
Consultant
with a Fatherhood Initiative, medical services, spiritual guidance to the youth
Father Michael Orr, MSJ
Lead Consultant
Fatherhood Initiative Overseer at risk and returning citizens. Our mission is to bring restoration to families.
Bishop Alfonzo Smith
Spiritual Counselor We do this by creating a platform that offers a brighter future for our male
Substance Abuse &
Youth Counselor
youth and by encouraging men to become better sons, better husbands,
Minister Fred Burnette, BSW
Director of Spiritual Leadership
better fathers, better brothers, and the best community leaders.
Minister Henry Timmons, BS
Criminal Justice MCE
Director of Education & Finance We are committed to family and community unification by assisting
Minister Ron Maye
Director of Mentoring
men to become taxpayers, homeowners, businessmen, entrepreneurs and

Minister Allen Jones ultimately mentors.

Director of Youth Diversion

Minister Lance Duke Fatherhood Initiative Personnel

Assistant Director of
Youth Diversion
Father Michael Orr, MSJ, Lead Administrator of the Fatherhood Initiative
--- Father Michael is a member of the Wayne County Council Against Family
AFFILIATES
Catholic Community Response Violence, the Oakland County Coordinating Council against Domestic
Catholic Social Services
Dominion Family Services
Friend of the Court Violence, the Governor’s Task Force on Batterer Intervention Service
Michigan Dept. of Corrections
Oakland Family Services
provider standards, as well as various clergy sub-committees on

domestic violence. He also serves the Southfield

Police Department as one of its

Chaplains and is a member of the International Conference of Police Chaplains.

15600 W. 12 Mile Road | Southfield, MI 48076
Phone: (313) 860-9684 | E-mail: FaithInTheSonMin@gmail.com
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Name Title Qualifications Years of
Experience
Minister Fred Burnette Program Manager BSW 13
Minister Henry Timmons Director of B.S. Criminal Justice, 15
Education & M.C.E.
Finance
Minister Ron Maye Director of Founder & CEO of 9
Mentoring Peaceful Solutions, Male
Mentoring Program
Bishop Alfonso Smith Family & B.A. Social Work, B. A. 26
Substance Abuse Criminal Justice
Counselor M.A. Guidance
Counseling
M.A. Education

Our demographic group is the city of Pontiac, Michigan, whose residency was

66,337, according to the last census. Single family households make up over 40% of the

population, 25.2% had a female householder with no husband present. The racial makeup

of the city was 39.09% White, 47.92% African American, 12.76% Hispanic or Latino, 0.58%

Native American, 2.40% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, and 9.97% from other races. The

median income for a household in the city was $31,207, and the median income for a family

was $36,391. Males had a median income of $31,961 versus $24,765 for females. About

18.0% of families and 22.1% of the population were below the poverty line.

FSM has established partnerships with the Oakland County

Friend of the Court and Michigan Department of Corrections, Pontiac Parole Office, both of

these agencies work with 90% of the absentee fathers. These agencies will make direct

referrals to FSM under the partnership agreement. In addition, our clergy members and

affiliates send men to our classes and workshops.

2. We support responsible fatherhood, healthy marriage

and economic stability by offering an array

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of classes, such as, Fatherhood Preparation Classes: one-on-one counseling, creating

family, father, and child activities, and field trips, anger management and domestic

counseling, family reunification, life skills, budgeting and financial planning, job preparation,

as well as employment and training. After completion of classes, we offer mentoring,

counseling and alumni support.

FSM has partnerships with Catholic Social Services who assist us with family

counseling and unification, Olive Branch Ministry to assist with family mentoring, Oakland

Family Services to assist fathers with children with disability and developmental delays. All

of our ministers also provide marriage counseling.

3. Our organization for the past 11 years have been working with men between the

ages of 25-50 who have been incarcerated, need to reunify with their families, wish to

reestablish their parental rights, build relationships with their children, address their issues of

child support and have decided to become responsible parents. We have a proven track

record with Michigan Department of Corrections and Friend of the Court in this area.

4. Although our primary focus over the years has been with the absentee fathers as a

result of incarceration, we realize there is an overwhelming need for additional assistance to

the absentee father who has no criminal history, and has no relationship with his children.

FSM is now developing an expansion of our workshops to include servicing an additional

150 men who have abandoned the children, or are intermittent fathers and/or are new

fathers. These workshops will be for 90 days, two hour sessions, two sessions per week

and will include domestic violence, understanding manhood and responsibility, family

matters and decision-making, and quality time versus quantity time.

5. The technical assistance that we need from NFI to

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strengthen our organization would be technical assistance concerning: leadership training,

team building, workshop sessions on program evaluation tools, diversity and cultural

differences training, technical support, and legislative support.

The leadership and team building training will help us further unite our board of

directors, trainers and other staff, to help us to continue to build our initiative for Pontiac and

surrounding geographic areas.

The diversity and cultural differences training will help our board members and staff

to begin understand the different needs and cultural backgrounds of our fathers, and how

the fathers relate to their children, mothers, and significant others, both socially and

economically.

Technical support will be needed for interaction with NFI, government entities, and

any other group that may be related to the project in some fashion. FSM will need legislative

support in order to continue to grow within the community and outside the community. NFI

could guide us through some of the terrain.

6. Over the next several years, we plan to sustain ourselves by being 70% self-

supported and 30% foundation grants, fundraisers and private donors supported.

We will establish a for-profit company that will provide construction and

deconstruction as well as “green” training programs, which will allow us to initiate our

Good Neighbors Act Initiative to refurbish distressed neighborhoods at affordable

prices. We currently have a community outreach initiative that provides construction

and handyman services to churches and other organizations, as well as residential

neighbors. We have acquired property and

have leased space to a coalition of businesses for income revenue. Over the

next 5 - 10 years, we plan to manage business and

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training incubators to assist and develop independent entrepreneurs. We will buy and sell

investment property and reinvest the monies into our organization. We will continue to

refurbish homes through our Good Neighbors Act.

Some of the current challenges that we are facing are an overwhelming need for our

services to be offered to more residents than we have room for or funds to serve. There are

a significant number of fathers who wish to participate in our various training opportunities

for employment and they have no funding resources. In addition, we are limited on the

transportation needed to assist the men in attending training classes. We foresee possible

losses of income due to the challenge of spaces being consistently occupied by companies.

We also foresee difficulties in getting mothers to participate with fathers for co-parenting.

Faith in the Son Ministries has over 150 years of collective experience serving the

Pontiac, Michigan community and has dedicated it’s mission to serving the male youth and

men of the community. This makes FSM the natural candidate for this project and mission.

You may contact Sha Jackson at (248) 860-9684 for any additional information. Thank you

for this opportunity and we look forward to working with you.

15600 W. 12 Mile Road | Southfield, MI 48076

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Oakland County Friend of the

Court

FRIEND OF THE COURT BLDG 2

230 ELIZABETH LAKE ROAD PETER K. DEVER

SUZANNE HOLLYER PONTIAC, MI 48341-0434 CLAUDIA MARTELLO

FRIEND OF THE COURT MAILING ADDRESS: P.O.BOX 436012 PAMELA J. SALA

PONTIAC, MI 48343-6012 CHIEF ASSISTANTS

TELEPHONE: (248) 858-0424 website: www.oakgov.com/foc FAX: (248) 858-0461

November 5, 2009

National Fatherhood Initiative

Attention: Jillian Stephenson
Executive Coordinator
National Responsible Fatherhood Capacity-Building Initiative
10 W. All Saints St., #304
Frederick, MD 21701

Re: National Fatherhood Initiative

Dear Stephenson,

This is to support the Faith in Son application for funding from the National Fatherhood
Initiative. This program, if funded, will provide assistance to parents and families who are
involved in our system here at the Office of the Friend of the Court.

The Friend of the Court is familiar with the needs of fathers as we work closely with
families in managing child support and parenting time needs of those we serve. We
support the efforts of Faith in Son in this area.

Please do not hesitate to contact me directly if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

/S/
Suzanne Hollyer, Director
Oakland County Friend of the Court
248-858-0431
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