Why Join Us? - What To Expect From Us
Why Join Us?
F.E.T.C.H. Offers You:
- A Nurturing Learning Environment Completely Focused On Your Personal Enrichment
- Support, Tools and Resources To Help You Manage Your Life
- Total Family Enrollment Encouraged, Where Applicable
Extensive Follow-Up
- Career opportunity training and follow-up mentorship after program completion.
- Real-world exposure to your chosen area of interest
- Remote access to F.E.T.C.H. Resource Library for all participants (past and present)
- Continuing Education opportunity for all participants
What To Expect From Us
We (the F.E.T.C.H. program) pride ourselves in helping families to acquire marketable skills. Our program invest man-hours, dollars and resources into training folks to either go straight to the work-force (re-entry programs), continue on to college, or start their own businesses.
- The F.E.T.C.H. Program operates basically on this three-pronged approach:
a.) Skills Training for DIRECT Work-Force Readiness
b.) College Preparation
c.) Entrepreneurship Education, Employment-Internship, and Business Incubation - We will equip you for, at least, one of these options. With this in mind we have a no-nonsense approach towards the delivery of services, nurturing and mentoring our participants' goals, dreams and ambition, and the careful maintenance of an environment conducive to their growth and development. Our staff are all trained professionals with significant experience in their individual field of expertise, but they are each caring partners first. Each one has vested interest in the growth and development of the F.E.T.C.H. program, so they each have vested interest in the growth and development of each of our participants.
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We are open and honest when we recruit participants...therefore we want participants to be equally open and honest about their plans for their future, background and ability/skill-set/preparation, in our interaction.
About F.E.T.C.H. --- Just The Facts
Here are some interesting facts about the F.E.T.C.H. Program
- Over 140 students and families served in the South Dade community, each receiving a free computer system at the end of their participation in our program.
- Over 90% program completion rate
- Over 95% of student participants continued their educational pursuit, instead of dropping out of school
- 100% of teen-mother participants went back to school upon program completion as a result of mentorship and re-entry program
- We continue to grow at a rate of 20 to 60 families per year
- Five major service centers were used to deliver service to the South Dade Community
- Homestead Gardens, Homestead, Florida
- Phichol Williams Community Center, Homestead, Florida
- Merrit Place Estates, FLorida City, Florida
- Kingdom Covenant Ministries, Perrine, Florida
- Church of God Seventh Day - South Miami
- Presently seeking to serve students and family members of the formerly incarcerated in the F.E.T.C.H. Re-entry Program
- The F.E.T.C.H. Program is now recruiting volunteers for our after-school program.
- New partnerships continue to evolve. All in the name of serving a most noble cause: Lifting up the less fortunate, empowering the helpless and bringing hope to those who have lost their way in life - by teaching, training and mentoring under-served and often forgotten, poor and needy youth and families. In this regard we would like to thank and acknowledge the efforts of the following agencies.
- South Dade Weed and Seed
- U.S. Attorney's Office