Friday, October 10, 2008

Abstinence Education Grant Not Awarded

Date: October 10, 2008

To: Community-Based Abstinence Education Spirit.Works Initiative Collaborative

Re: Letter Received October 6, 2008 from Curtis O. Porter, Acting Associate
Commissioner, Family and Youth Services Bureau

The Community-Based Abstinence Education Spirit.Works Initiative grant application was reviewed by a non-federal panel of experts who decided against funding this initiative. Thanks to all who were willing to participate!!! May God bless you as you continue to do good works in Christ Jesus' Name and to His glory and honor!!!

Minister Wanda Heard

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Yes We Can Change! Elect Barack Obama 2008 President

There are many ways to support the campaign to elect Barack Obama for President. This blog will address three primary ways supporters can elect Barack Obama 2008 President of The United States of America.

1. Intercede in prayer for Barack Obama daily now and throughout his
administration with the intercessory prayer group.

2. Be a catalyst to get as many eligible people registered to vote as
possible. The message that follows is from Barack Obama. Use it to
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election.

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Just forward this message:

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If you don't know your own registration status or you'd like to learn more,
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This race is too close and too important to stay home on Election Day.

If you take the time to register and vote -- and make sure everyone you
know is registered as well -- we'll be able to turn the tide of the past
eight years.

It's people just like you who will transform this nation.

Thanks,

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Saturday, September 13, 2008

FIREPROOF Your Marriage

With God's Amazing Love
I Corinthians 13:8a "...love never ends."











Marriage is intended to last a lifetime. Unfortunately current statistics show about half of all marriages end in divorce. To strengthen couple and marriage relationships, the movie "FIREPROOF Your Marriage" was made and will be playing in local movie theatres near you from September 26, 2008 through September 28, 2008. This movie is based on The Biblical Scripture Matthew 19:5-6 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one." Marriage is a covenant not a contract. You can love first, love better and love for a lifetime with the support of "The Love Dare Devotional" that teaches you how by taking a 40-day journey. This devotional and other related resources to FIREPROOF Your Marriage can be purchased in local Christian bookstores or by visiting Outreach.com for bulk quantities. New Creation in Christ Counseling Ministry invites you to FIREPROOF Your Marriage (See the movie.) and then take "The Love Dare." Relationships are worth taking the risk!!!











View the movie clip (Click on either widget in this blog post.) for "FIREPROOF Your Marriage" and freely invite other couples (those who are thinking about getting married, engaged, or married) to also view the movie clip at this blog address: http://www.spirit-worksinchurchschoolscommunity.blogspot.com and to attend the movie playing September 26, 2008 through September 28, 2008.

Should couples need support in taking The Love Dare 40 day journey after attending the movie at your local theatre, New Creation in Christ Christian Counseling Ministry Services are available. Ministry services include Christian Counseling and Therapy, Holistic Life Coaching, Mentoring, Chaplaincy, Mediation and Educational Consulting. You may call 404-758-1170 and leave your name, telephone number and the best time to reach you. Your call will be returned at the earliest possible time.









Saturday, June 7, 2008

Apply Now to Participate in the Spirit-Works Initiative Collaborative Contingent on ACF CBAE Grant Award

In all curriculum and standards, the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACF) Grant focus of Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) is critical to the success of program offerings and its adherence as a program requirement. Three important things must be universally applied in the context of unique and creative program applications and activities.
They are:

1. Purpose - Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) Programs educate young people and create an environment in communities that support teen decisions to postpone sexual activity until marriage.

2. Success - Programs are tailored to the unique cultural and environmental needs of the target population to be served. The plan must develop staff cultural competence and adjust programs to meet the needs of youth and their families who come from a diversity of backgrounds.

3. Community-Based Abstinence Education Program (CBAE) Themes - For the purposes of this program, community-based abstinence education means an educational or motivational program that:
(A) Has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity;
(B) Teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected standard for all school age children;
(C) Teaches that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other associated health problems;
(D) Teaches that a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity;
(E) Teaches that sexual activity outside of the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects;
(F) Teaches that bearing children out-of-wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child's parents, and society;
(G) Teaches young people how to reject sexual advances and how alcohol and drug use increases vulnerability to sexual advances; and
(H) Teaches the importance of attaining self-sufficiency before engaging in sexual activity.

Participants who are selected to serve with Spirit-Works to build a better world using CBAE programs/projects will make a positive ongoing impact in the lives of youth and families one life at a time and in the church, schools and communities where they live.

Your church, school or community organization must submit via email to spirit.works@yahoo.com 1) program organization plan (organization chart, program components and their implemention strategies, i.e., curriculum, standards and activities), 2) abstinence education curriculum samples that meet ACF CBAE definition and standards, 3) explanation of how the curriculum relates to each ACF CBAE themes criteria established above and in the other postings on this blog connect for your project/program, 4) your line item budget and justification narrative (program expenditure and associated ACF CBAE projected cost, 5) objectives and need for assistance, 6) program progress and financial reports (begins 90 days after and every 30 days during the grant period), and 7) Evaluation will be performed for compliance in project description and summaries of reported findings (Evaluator selected by ACF).

Points will be applied as follows to determine which participants will be selected for the Spirit-Works ACF CBAE Programs.

Evaluation Criteria Points
Budget/Justification 15
Organization 15
Objectives and Need for Assistance 9
Evaluation 25
Approach 36

The participants desiring to be part of the collaborative that meet the ACF CBAE Criteria with the highest points will be selected to participate with the Spirit-Works Initiative where all other considerations are comparable, i.e., program/project requirement, association to themes, and dynamics/requirements for the participants selected.

Your request for paticipation (as outlined above) with Spirit-Works to provide CBAE under the ACF Grant must be submitted no later than August 8, 2008 for review. No submission will be accepted if not received on or before August 8, 2008 via email to spirit.works@yahoo.com. If Spirit-Works is selected to receive the ACF CBAE Grant, participants who are selected as a Spirit-Works participants in this collaborative effort will be notified by email of the grant award with amount and any additional terms/conditions, effective date, and budget period requirements. If Spirit-Works is selected for the ACF CBAE Grant Award, the start date specified in the grant announcement is September 30, 2008.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Application for Community-Based Abstinence Education Program

Program Office: Family and Youth Services Bureau; Administration on Children, Youth and Families

Funding
Opportunity
Title: Community-Based Abstinence Education Program

Announcement: Initial

Funding
Number: HHS-2008-ACF-ACYF-AE-0099

CFDA Number: 93.010

Due Date: 06/02/2008

Applicant: 501(c)3 Non-Profit Ministries


Submission
by Mail: ACYF Operations Center
c/o The Dixon Group
Attention: Community-Based Abstinence Education Program Funding
118 Q Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-2132

Introduction

New Creation in Christ Ministries, Inc. will facilitate in collaboration with and in context of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACF) requirements (curriculum and standards) a Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) Program. The CBAE Program will be carry the logo Spirit-Works to emphasis the purpose which is to educate young people and create an environment within communities that supports teen decisions to postpone sexual activity until marriage. The logo provides a foundation for this purpose and it is to "Build A Better World in Church, Schools and Community." Through the CBAE Program themes, Spirit-Works will insure the selected Church, Schools and Community agencies structure all its instruction and activity to carry out the program purpose and its program themes for abstinence as defined by the CBAE Program.


Application Content

1) Federal SF 424 - Completed and submitted in this CBAE grant application.

2) Table of Contents - Required submissions are as numbered and are in required application content order.

3) Project Abstract - Project Name is Spirit-WorksToBuildABetterWorld. Selected Church, Schools, and Community organizations will use CBAE Program curriculum to teach young people middle school and high school ages abstinence education to make the choice to postpone sex until marriage (one man to one woman) and to remain monogamous in marriage relationship for life.

4) Project Description - Three segments of society will be addressed: Church, Schools and Community to build a better world. Spirit-Works will teach abstinence education to impact one life at a time. The purpose of this one way educates youth and creates environments in our communities that support a youth's decision to postpone sexual activity until marriage. It also supports retaining a monogamous relationship in marriage. The twelve themes that define abstinence education for the purposes of this program will be the exclusive curriculum expressed in a variety of ways that youth relate to best and parents can and willingly support. The participants will express the consisten themes for abstinence education based on the program requirements in their own ways to be diversity multi-culturally sensitive and adaptive for youth and their families served. Evaluations by an independent third party recommended by ACF will be contracted to provide pre, intermitent and post surveys and other measurement criteria for developing and reviewing service deliverables and impacts of outcomes desired as specified within the CBAE program guidelines. To support the Abstinence Education Program, an ACF Grant Program application is being made for the first of a five year CBAE Program Grant due June 2, 2008 by 4:30 p.m. EST. Most participants have other sources of funding that is used to carry out their overall programs but the grant is needed to conduct the Abstinence Education Program through Spirit-WorksToBuildABetterWorld.

5) Budget Information for Non-Construction Programs SF-424A - Form completed and enclosed.

6) Detailed Budget and Justification (As Required in Section V) - The CBAE Budget will consist of a four part distribution of funds to meet CBAE themes and program requirements. The budget will cover 1/4 operations non-salary, 1/4 for investment future operations beyond scope of the CBAE grant non-salary, 1/4 for program and service offerings and 1/4 for salary and wages, and program costs, i.e., program materials, instruction and evaluation. The grant is requested for $600,000 per year for the five year grant period. The program with investment plan will operate debt free and continue beyond the scope of the CBAE grant period. Line items will be the responsibility of the paticipating organizations to justify and will clearly make a difference in the probablity of being selected.

7) Logic Model - Selected participants will create their own unique ways to implement the CBAE curriculum based on the population to be served. The major goal is to change the environments to support teens making the choice to be abstinent until marriage to strengthen families to remain in manogomous relationship in marriage as defined by the CBAE program. Impact targets are 1) In the Church through a Freedom School, 2) In target Public Schools for in Fulton, Cobb and Paulding County and 3) In Community through programs in Mental Health, Juvenile Justice and Library Latchkey youth. All youth are at greater risk of STD's, Aids, and risky behaviors that can lead to alcohol and drug abuse when they engage in sexual activity before marriage and with multiple partners out of marriage relationship. It is the intent of Spirit-Works to change the environments to expect youth to be abstinent until marriage and monogamous within the marriage relationship as defined by the CBAE Program requirements.

8) Work Plan - Arranged based on the creative content of the selected programs to participate in Spirit-Works initiative for the community based abstinence education of young people as described in the logic model.

9) Curriculum Description - Required CBAE Program Curriculum to address the twelve themes will be used. The CBAE curriculum will be adapted for the unique needs of the culture and needs of the population served.

10) Support Documents - Forms required in the grant announcement were completed and are part of the application package mailed May 29, 2008.

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Monday, May 26, 2008

In The Community...

Many of the community programs are designed to provide safety, care and guidance in support of the needs of youth and their families. These programs address their personal development and provide accountability for public safety, restoration of victims and their communities. Select programs for youth will be engaged by use of select Abstinence Education curriculum to teach youth the themes of what is involved in the choice to be abstinent until marriage (one woman and one man) and to remain in the marriage monogomous relationship for life. Youth programs in community will be solicited. Three youth groups will be selected from those who respond affirmatively. The invited at risk youth program participants may include 1) Mental Health/Foster Care/Adoption 2) Library Latchkey Children/Atlanta Junior Friend's Outreach and 3) Juvenile Justice Court System youth.

In The Schools

Three Target schools will be selected and will be the catalyst for helping youth through select curriculum for themes to build character in making good choices, dating and purity, and value in healthy committed, monogamous relationships. These programs will educate young people about the boundaries of abstinence and are designed to teach abstinence means until marriage (one man and one woman) and also includes husband and wife being in a monogamous relationship in the context of marriage as the standard of human sexual activity.

In The Church...

Spirit-Works in building better relationships one life at a time and collectively. Through a variety of mentoring projects and programs designed to help youth grow to their fullest potential, making wise decisions and being responsible, contributing adult for life.