Foster Enterprise Foundation

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Foster Enterprise Foundation

• Introducing

Contact Kevin_at_FosterEnterpriseFoundation.org
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Changing the lives of homeless youth and those
aging out of the child welfare system

• over 3,000 homeless youth in North Carolina,
  over 1 million nationwide!
• over 20,000 young adults age out of Foster Care
  every year. Many turn to drugs and crime or
  become homeless.
• Most programs across the U.S. provide food,
  blankets, emergency shelter, and other immediate
  needs, but thats all.
• A few programs are set up to transition youth
  into society by providing a home and education,
  but at extreme cost/youth.
• Foster Enterprise Foundation will rehabilitate
  these youth by training them to be productive
  members of society, based on the cost efficient
  model of Delancey Street Foundation.

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Foster Enterprise Foundation is based on an
internationally successful model Delancey
Street Foundation
See Delancey Street on TV!
Rather than solving one issue at a time (e.g.,
drugs or job skills) we believe that all aspects
of a persons life interact, and all people must
interact legitimately and successfully with
others to make their lives work. Delancey Street
is therefore a total learning center in which
residents learn (and teach) academics, vocational
skills, and personal, interpersonal, practical
and social survival skills. We believe the best
way to learn is to teach and that helping others
is an important way to earn self-reliance. Person
A helps person B and person A gets better.

• We believe that people can learn to live drug
  free, crime free lives of purpose and integrity.
  Rather than following a medical model or a
  therapeutic model, weve developed an educational
  model to solve social problems. We teach people
  to find and develop their strengths rather than
  only focusing on their problems.

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Delancey Street Has Received 100s of Awards

• President Ronald Regan, Child Safety Partnership
  Award 1987
• White House Communications Agency, Certificate of
  AppreciationVice President Al Gore, 1997
• United States Senate Proclamation as the nations
  leading self-help rehabilitation center.Senator
  Dianne Feinstein, 2002
• California State Governors Proclamation of
  Delancey Street Day Governor Gray Davis, March
  22, 2002
• United States Congressional Record
  CommendationDelancey Street Foundation, an
  innovative drug and alcohol rehabilitation
  facility that is literally saving lives by
  instilling hope in the hearts of societys
  castaways.Congressman Tom Lantos, 1991
• United Kingdom Prime Minister, Tony Blair and
  British Counsel, Certificate of Appreciation2006

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How Delancey Street Works

• We have 3 rules no drugs or alcohol, no
  physical violence, and no threats of violence.
  The goal is to learn to lead a productive
  crime-free, drug-free life of purpose and
  integrity. Everyone learns a marketable skill
  (the goal is 3 skills), and earns at least a high
  school equivalency degree. Advanced education is
  available.
• First we teach our residents personal skills how
  to break old habits, how to get along with other
  people, particularly those different from us.
  Many have been homeless, so we teach basic
  hygiene. Most have never had jobs, so we teach
  basic work habits showing up on time, listening
  to a boss, and getting along with coworkers.
• When ready, residents enter one of our vocational
  training schools where with training from more
  experienced residents, they start at the bottom
  and work their way up. In the restaurant, for
  example, one can go from dishwasher to prep cook
  to line cook to managing chef.

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Training Institute of Social Renewal

• The Institute provides training and technical
  assistance in replication of the Delancey Street
  model, applied particularly to underclass
  populations such as ex-felons and homeless
  people, among others. There is specific focus on
  such issues as
• Job development and economic self-sufficiency
• Self-governance
• Drug-free, crime-free community living
• Social responsibility
• Social entrepreneurship

I am scheduled to attend the next training
institute at Delancey St. here at the San
Fransisco facility
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Other alternativesRobins Nest Inc. Life Link

• It was scary knowing I could no longer stay in
  my foster home. But thanks to my Life Link
  counselor, someone was there. She helped me set
  goals, secure scholarships so I could attend
  community college, and find a job. She has faith
  in me and never let me give up.

Virtual Tour of a Life Link Home
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Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth

• The independent living program is a 16-bed
  scattered-site transitional housing program for
  homeless youth ages 16 to 18 that work or
  attend school full-time and attend life skills
  classes. The main objective of the independent
  living program is to assist self-motivated youth
  in achieving self-sufficiency.

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The Plus and the Minus

• Delancey Street Foundation
• Rehabilitates over 500 residents at 5 U.S.
  locations over 14,000 graduates
• Cost effective self sufficient
• On the job training starting at the bottom and
  working up
• Residents teach each other
• Graduate with an education, job, bank account,
  life skills, and a large extended family
• International success in various replications
• Provides training to replicate their success

• Other Rehabilitation centers
• Serve an average of 12 youth at a time
• Cost a lot, funded by Government money
  donations
• Provide housing, basic needs, education
  assistance
• Provide limited job skills
• Taught by strangers who havent walked in their
  shoes

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Each year 20,000 kids age out of Foster Care,
with no family and no one to turn to
.....tragically, these young adults must struggle
to get started with a place to live, a job, a
college education or GED, budgeting expenses,
managing a social life, securing transportation,
buying furniture and groceries, etc..., etc...
Frustrated, many turn to crime, drugs or become
homeless the future looks dim and opportunities
are out of reach.
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Together We Can Make a Difference

• Reach young adults before they become drug
  dealers, felons, and repeat offenders
• Feasible to rehabilitate large numbers with no
  burden on the community
• Residents provide services to the community
  through social entrepreneurship and social
  responsibility
• Residents graduate with an education, real world
  experience, business and sales experience, a bank
  account, and a large extended family
• In time, the Foundation will be self-sufficient
  and tied into the community

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Foster Enterprise Foundation is funded by
enterprises run by our residents
Residents start at the bottom and work their way
up in jobs that include bookkeeping, inventory,
paperwork, sales, physical labor, production of
goods or crafts, etc. Current enterprises
registered in NC Recording Studio Music
Publishing, Marketing, Promotion and
Sales Internet Shopping Mall Future
Enterprises Website design Lawn care and
landscaping Automotive maintenance and repair
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Foster Enterprise Foundation in the Community

• Partnerships with
• Coastal Carolina Community College
• City of Jacksonville Police Department
• Onlow County Alternative School
• Onlow County Social Services
• Local churches
• Local business

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Visit our website for more info.
6 fundamental areas of training school
learning and tutoring personal skills basic
work habits vocational training social
survival skills interpersonal skills
Each resident must learn a minimum 3 marketable
skills 1 paperwork job 1 physical labor job 1
sales-oriented job Each resident teaches the next
new resident
Contact Kevin_at_FosterEnterpriseFoundation.org 910-
382-6379