Family Success Center of Etowah County Inc
Strengthening Families
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Healthy families create healthier communities. Yet many families struggle to be stable. Our services are aimed at helping families help themselves, financially, emotionally and physically.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Financial Stability Coaching
A financial stability coach helps individuals and families with budgeting, debt reduction, credit score improvement, and short-and-long-term spending goals.
Safe and Successful Child Abuse Prevention Program
School-based abuse and neglect prevention program to teach K-10th grade about Child Abuse Prevention, Dating Violence, Internet Safety, and Bullying.
Healthy Marriages and Relationship Education Initiative
Relationship education for individuals, couples, and high school youth. Educating about strengthening relationships, picking healthy relationships, and red flags.
Supervised Visitation Program
Supervision of visitation for non-custodial parents on both a court-referral and volunteer basis
Counselor
A professional counselor is available to counsel families and/or individuals
PEACE Program
PEACE is a middle school intervention program designed to break and prevent the cycle of abuse, as well as offering Character Development Skills and Education, smoking cessation, and Erin's Law.
The C.A.T.I. Project
A referral based program for Inmates/Immigrants to receive Mental Health Assessments, Human Trafficking Screenings, Family Therapy, and Trauma Counseling.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
Alabama Association of Nonprofits 2022
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of clients served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Family relationships, Social and economic status, Age groups
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Units of service provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Units of Services Provided through ALL 20 programs within the Center.
Number of clients who report general satisfaction with their services
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Other - describing something else
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Percentage of clients served through every program who completed surveys about their program and Center's performance.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
All of our programs, efforts and initiatives focus on finding the obstacle that prevents a family from being healthy and strong, and assisting them in tackling that obstacle. We believe healthy relationships are the best place to raise children, and that strong families are important to good communities. However, many families need a little assistance becoming strong. They need to know how to improve communication and conflict resolution in their relationships and assistance parenting at the different ages of development. Blended and extended families can bring both additional joy and greater complexity to the family unit. Many individuals need more information about managing their money well, setting goals, and staying on track with their life plan. Abuse and neglect rob children of the childhoods they should have, and leave scars on tomorrow's adults. Though survivors can be productive adults, it is better to prevent the scars in the first place.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Education - We hope to continue to teach individuals better skills. This includes everything from making a budget and handling money, to resolving conflict, to better coping skills, to how to be a stronger parent, and how to choose relationships wisely.
Coaching - We will work with clients through coaching to help them understand new and creative ways to handle solutions in their own personal life, which encouraging them to make changes long term.
Counseling - We offer mental health assistance to any clients who need assistance in order to give them better and stronger coping skills. This encouragement will help individuals and families become stronger.
Assessments - We will continue to offer community assessments to find out what this organization can do, through issues like food insecurity, mental health needs, education, etc. while partnering with other agencies.
Poverty/Discrimination - We will continue to work with clients who are often times overlooked, under-served, and unable to afford services. We will not discriminate against anyone because of their ability to pay, etc. We will also partner with local organizations to offer Mental Health Assessments to inmates and through immigration. We will also continue to work with lower income neighborhoods, neighborhoods with predominantly people of color to make sure they are registered to vote so they too can make a difference.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We offer classes and coaching sessions. Our center has office spaces which offer privacy, as well as classrooms which allow our educational components. Our staff is appropriately trained in the areas they facilitate, and we are supported by grant providers, donors and our local community. We are searching out new funding and programs to help assist with all of these issues, and finding new and creative ways to make them happen, including working with County Commissioners, City Council, etc.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
In fiscal year 2020 (October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020), we worked with 12,984 individuals. More than 1300 of those were under age 6. Almost 10,000 were students (ages 6 to 18), and almost 3000 were adults. Our outreach efforts put information about our services in front of more than 320,000 people. Financial stability worked with 946 individuals and families. Our counselor was more than 167 individuals and families in more than 600 sessions. Safe and Successful reached more than 8000 students in the three school systems of our area--Etowah County, Gadsden City, and Attalla City. Relationship education taught more than 400 youth, more than 130 adults and 50 couples in more than 1500 class sessions. The numbers for fiscal year 2021 are on track to reach even more.
During the fiscal year 2022 (October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022),
the Family Success Center of Etowah County provided
with the 20 Programs including In-House Partners:
168,234 Units of Service.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Family Success Center of Etowah County Inc
Board of directorsas of 08/22/2023
John Adams
State Farm
Term: 2021 - 2024
Keith Davis
Davis Realty and Auction
Term: 2021 - 2025
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.