Partners and Funders
Our program's effectiveness rests heavily on the experience, expertise and collaboration of our funders and partners. We have a strong support network of health and human service agencies that support our efforts by accepting referrals, conducting workshops or lending their know-how when called upon.
Many local businesses are willing to give fathers a second chance in the workplace, even when their past has a spotty work history. Provision of much-needed services is fueled by philanthropic gifts and grants and bridges the gap between delivery costs and discernable positive impacts for sincere, yet, struggling fathers.
Thanks to our partners and funders, low-income fathers have a place to grow, learn, and change and to end a vicious cycle of father absence. We invite you to become our partner and to financially invest in this community program that changes lives today and potentially generations to come.
Adecco Temp
Service
Adult
Learning Center (Greenville)
Adult
Learning Center (Spartanburg)
AIDS Upstate
Ambassador
Personnel
Bi-Lo
Career Source
(Spartanburg)
Child Support
Enforcement
City of
Greenville
City
Recreational Department
Corporate
Staffing
County
Recreational Department
Cowart Awards
Department of
Social Services
Diligent
Hands/Gracious Hearts
Fiber Source,
Inc.
First Steps
Counseling Services
Gilreath
Foundation
Goodwill
Industries
Gordon Food
Services
Greenville
Community Foundation
Greenville
Family Court
Greenville
Technical College
Habitat for
Humanity
Heritage
Community Services
JAMZ (Cox
Radio)
Julie
Valentine Center
Kudzu
Staffing
Latchkey,
Inc.
Law offices
of Maurice McNab
Marketplace
staffing
McDonald's
Miracle Hill
Men's Shelter
One Stop
Employment Agency
Phillis
Wheatley Association
Pickens
County Family Court
Pinnacle
staffing
Probation and
Parole
Quaker Steak
&Lube
Recruiting
Solutions
Salvation
Army
SC Centers
For Equal Justice
SC Works
Liberty
Second
Presbyterian Church
Senior
Solutions
SHARE
Snelling
Spartanburg
Alcohol & Drug Abuse Commission
Spartanburg
Family Court
Spartanburg
Housing Authority
Spartanburg
Public Safety
Spartanburg
Regional Healthcare
Sphinx
Corporation
Sun Staffing
Talent
Management
The Haven
Total
Ministries
United
Ministries
United Way of
Greenville
United Way of
the Piedmont
Urban League
of Upstate
University of
South Carolina Upstate
Vocational
Rehab
Welco
staffing
Workforce
Investment Act
YMCA
Value of workforce development and fatherhood program partnerships
Low-income fathers are often viewed as a high risk investment when it comes to job training and hiring. Yet, with supportive services and coaching provided by a fatherhood program, a fathers likelihood of success substantially increases. What makes a father in a local fatherhood program more likely to succeed:
- Fathers are motivated
- Voluntary
- Court-ordered
- Self-aware/mature
Fathers are supported
- One Man Plan
- Case management to address barriers to getting and keeping a job
- Assistance navigating systems such as child support, workforce development, healthcare and family
- Taught connection between employment and parental responsibility
- Peer support promotes and teaches good decision making Fathers are more likely to succeed in Workforce Development
- Receive Work Keys courseware
- Receive transportation to job training
- Receive individualized attention to develop a workforce preparation and employment plan
- Track attendance at training.
Fathers are more likely to get and keep a job
- Fatherhood job recruiter works with employers while the father is in training
- Job recruiter helps educate fathers about government assistance such as tax credits, bonding, etc.
- Receive job readiness, soft skills
- Develop reputation of being good employees
- Receive on-going case management and coaching after becoming employed
- Receive transportation assistance
- Stabilize life-style
- Resolve child support issues that complicate employment
Benefits of Working with Fatherhood Programs
- Low-income non-custodial parents and ex-offenders often seek trusting environment of a fatherhood program vs. governmental services
- Fatherhood program staff can share case management
- Produce value-added services that help access funding and improve outcomes for fathers
- More than 10 years of experience in working with hard to employ fathers