F.E.T.C.H! Overview
Several years ago when this program first started the primary focus of this initiative was to provide Information Technology training and Entrepreneurship Education for low-income families (parents and children) as a deterrent to crime and violence; particularly gun violence. Since then we have eveolved into a full service community school model, providing comprehensive academic, and vocational programs and services to meet individual, family, and community needs.
Our program presently serves families residing in Homestead, Florida City, Perrine, Goulds, South Miami, Richmond Heights and Cutler Bay. This program targets low-income families living within crime-ridden communities, since crime-prevention statistics shows that this demographic serve as fertile grounds for the propagation of gun-related crime and violence.
The F.E.T.C.H. program offers computer assembly training, computer programming training and entrepreneurship education which is sensitively organized and uniquely tailored to meet the needs and skills level of each participant. Each family participating in F.E.T.C.H. will take home the unit they assemble and program upon program completion.
Family Enrichment - Five years of family enrichment programming in South Dade
Over the years we have had the privilege to have worked with families and children who we were told had no other hope. We were their last chance as they had exhausted all hope and possibilities of having other agencies work with them.Others had given up on them out of utter frustration, while some took a look at their record; criminal, academic, parental background etc.
(please note we are talking about juvenile offenders, multiple school expulsions, repeat teen-pregnancies, drug related arrests/ crime, multiple foster-home bouts, run-aways etc.) and felt that they were simply not worth the time it would require to properly rehabilitate them.
Thanks to the F.E.T.C.H. program we have seen some of those very same youth move on to re-enter student-life and are now aspiring college students, I.T. college students, as well as Culinary Art Institutes applicants awaiting acceptance. We believe if we have more resources and greater access to these and other youth like them we could continue to be the catalyst for change in our city and nation....Won't you help us help them?
