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Community Services - BRIDGES, CPSFL is the lead agency for five BRIDGES sites in Palm Beach County: in the communities of Belle Glade, Pahokee, Riviera Beach, and two sites in Lake Worth. The purpose of the BRIDGES (a community hub concept) is to coordinate with organizations and create partnerships within the community with a focus on increasing healthy births, decreasing child abuse and neglect, and increasing school readiness and third grade school success in specific geographical areas. Funded by the Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County (CSCPBC), BRIDGES are neighborhood hubs across Palm Beach County that help parents raise children to be healthy, safe, and strong. (Continued on Schedule O)BRIDGES offers parent-child activities, safety fairs, family-friendly events, parenting workshops, lending libraries, connections to local resources, community advocacy, and more. Information is provided on wellness for adults and children, and on help getting medical care for babies, pregnant women, and families with young children. CPSFL's Mentoring program offers a fun, safe, and structured opportunity for the one-on-one mentoring of children. The mentors and mentees meet weekly and participate in structured activities at school-based sites during the traditional after school hours. HPI's four mentoring programs use evidenced-based standards to guide safe and impactful mentoring relationships. Mentoring is a supervised onsite program that happens between 2:30pm to 6:30pm, Monday through Friday and Saturday 9am to 1pm at Highland, Pioneer Park and Pahokee elementary schools in addition to Lake Worth middle school. In addition to our current mentoring opportunities, "Mentees on the Move," HPI offers a STEM-focused (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) mentoring program made possible through the PBC STEM Learning Ecosystem hosted at the COX Science Center. Through collaboration with the COX Science Center and Aquarium and the support of generous local partners, this unique program is aimed to improve the STEM pipeline, inspire the next generation, and empower STEM professionals to positively influence our community. Preventing students from dropping out of the STEM talent pipeline is essential in meeting current and future U.S. job demands. There is still a high number of students that would like to pursue STEM careers, and this number is increasing. Youth received direct one-on-one mentoring with their adult mentors throughout the year. Youth together with their Mentors, explored and received opportunities to experience; art, games, exploration of careers, enriching field trips and sports workshops. Safe Kids is a community-based program that is dedicated to keeping all children birth to 19 years of age safe from preventable injuries. Preventable injuries are the #1 killer of all children in the U.S. As the lead organization for Safe Kids Palm Beach County, HPI offers education and resources for safety on the road, at home, and at play. Safe Kids conducted 300 community outreach educational sessions on injury mechanisms and hazards during the 2023-2024 fiscal year. Additionally, Safe Kids conducted car safety seat inspections, distributed child safety seats, bike helmets, home safety kits, and Pack n Plays to children in need throughout the county.Teen Outreach Program (TOP) is a youth development program that uses a teen club model. TOP achieves positive outcomes for youth by providing them with opportunities to learn new skills and practice them in an emotionally safe and supportive setting with caring, trained adult facilitators. The program's primary goals are to; Improve social and emotional learning, and life skills; Support development of a positive sense of self; Strengthen connections with others; Improve academic outcomes and decrease risky behavior. TOP has been implemented successfully with diverse communities and in both urban and rural environments. The program is designed to meet the needs of middle and high school teens in a variety of settings. During the 2023-2024 fiscal year, HPI enrolled students in the TOP program by hosting clubs at middle and high schools throughout the School District of Palm Beach County. During 2023-2024, TOP teens developed and completed group and individual community services projects throughout the community. Triple P and Teen Triple P provide interventions that focus on strengthening the child/caregiver day, healthy attachment, and positive parenting skills for parents of children ages birth to 17 years. Triple P helps parents raise happy and confident kids, manage misbehavior so everyone in the family enjoys life more, sets rules and routines that everyone respects and follows, encourages positive and appropriate behavior, and supports parents in building confidence in their parenting decisions.

Child and Family Mental Health Services (CFMHS) - Therapy Services provides comprehensive behavioral health services for children, adolescents, adults, and their families. Counseling services focus on decreasing the impact of emotional, social, and behavioral issues related to stress, trauma, adjustment issues, or any other mental health disorder. Therapists utilize both in-person and telehealth platforms to increase client access to services and to meet each client's individualized needs. The High-Fidelity Wraparound (HFW) program provides services for children, adolescents, adults, and their families who are experiencing significant emotional difficulties. (Continued on Schedule O)HFW is a nationally recognized, structured, team-based, evidenced-based approach focusing on the internal strengths of the client/family and promotes self-advocacy. The primary goal is to link, advocate, coordinate, and monitor services that will benefit the person's mental health.School Based Programs provide mental health services to students identified by school personnel for social, emotional, and behavioral issues in partnership with the Palm Beach County School District. The Intake Department is responsible for coordination and mental health assessment for the incoming client referrals. All referrals are screened, assessed, and clients are connected to appropriate services based on their complete mental health assessments, client's needs, and client choice. The Psychiatric Services program provides psychiatric services to adults and to children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 19. The Psychiatric program consists of two contract psychiatrists, each providing psychiatric services (psychiatric evaluations and medication management).

Strategic Initiatives:Healthier Glades, and Healthier Lake Worth Beach are community-driven health initiatives aiming to increase health equity for individuals, to impact lasting and sustainable changes for organizations and systems related to health and well-being, to establish a learning framework to evaluate the overall impact, and to change the behavioral health outcomes for residents.Amplifying Impact is a social enterprise effort that amplifies resident voice through community engagement. Utilizing a variety of facilitative strategies, CPSFL connects system representatives to residents through guided interviews, focus groups, dialogues, action forums, conferences, and participatory processes to create positive community change that includes everyone. Working directly with local communities, Amplifying Impact efforts aim to equip residents to take action and make their voices heard on topics such as racial equity, poverty reduction, education reform, and building strong neighborhoods. In 2024, the Amplifying Impact supported the NeighborWorks Florida Collaborative Community Leadership Institute, in Orlando, Florida. The Institute gathered residents and practitioners across the state to learn about innovative practices in disaster relief, real estate development, financial sustainability, and resident engagement.AmeriCorps VISTA links high-caliber national volunteers with nonprofit programs and agencies aspiring to end poverty. Each program or agency understands that this can only be accomplished by increasing their internal capacity to sustain their efforts for years to come. AmeriCorps Members apply to 'serve' at a site for one year and to work on goals identified by the 'site'. These goals are updated annually, for a total of three years, to move their program or agency towards sustainability.The Digital Inclusion Program, an equity investment from Quantum Foundation and the Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties, is a community-based strategy to bridge the gap in digital access. Digital Inclusion refers to the activities necessary to ensure that all individuals and communities, including the most disadvantaged, have access to and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). This includes five elements: 1) affordable, robust broadband internet service; 2) internet-enabled devices that meet the needs of the user; 3) access to digital literacy training; 4) quality technical support; and 5) applications and online content designed to enable and encourage self-sufficiency, participation and collaboration.