About F.E.T.CH. --- Just The Facts
Here are some interesting facts about the F.E.T.C.H. Program
- Family Enrichment Community Learning Center provides free training and support for our participants and their families in the following areas:
- Remedial education and academic enrichment
- Literacy/reading programs plus expanded‐learning opportunities for youth and families
- Parenting education and parent leadership
- Community services and service learning opportunities
- Mentoring and other youth development programs
- Programs for truant, suspended, or expelled students
- Adult education
- Job training and career counseling services
- Re-Entry Programs for the formerly incarcerated in the "F.E.T.C.H. Re-entry Program"
- Life-Skills, Information Technology Training, and much more for the students and family members of the homeless and formerly homeless population in the "F.E.C.L.C. Restore Program"
- Entrepreneurship Education
- Small Business Incubation
- Information Technology Training and voluntary work-experience opportunities
- Paid internship opportunities for program participants
- Over 168 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 five years
- 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 over 40 families per year
- Four major service centers were used over the past five years 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
- Homestead Gardens, Homestead, Florida
- F.E.T.C.H. 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.
- Barrett Technologies
- South Dade Weed and Seed
- U.S. Attorney's Office
Andrew Barrett
Executive Director – Family Enrichment Through Community and Hope, Inc.
Phone: (786)286-1218 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Website: http://www.fetchfl.org
