The Austin Project

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Apr 27, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$346,628

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Community Development (Parent Transition Initiative): The Austin Project promotes Healthy Teen Relationships through Parent-focused Transition Programs for parents whose youth transition from elementary to middle school and from childhood to adolescence. TAP is part of a 4 year partnership with SafePlace, the Austin Independent School District and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to promote healthy teen relationships in targeted communities within Austin. TAP developed and implemented highly successful transition planning workshops to engage parents in effective parenting strategies, involvement with their child's middle school, and ways to support their children's development of healthy teen relationships. 150 families and their youth benefitted from workshops and transition events that included facilitated parent-youth dialogues around dating and sexuality and bullying prevention. ......................................................................... Community Development (Intermediary Collaborations: Promoting alignment of services and resources through participation on City/Council/AISD Task Forces, Youth Service Collaborations, and neighborhood Coalitions): The Austin Project served on a number of Task Forces and community coalitions including the Housing and School Mobility Task Force, the Juvenile Support Task Force, thr Network of Family Resource Centers, the Dove Springs Community/School Alliance, the Martin Middle School Community/School Alliance, the Austin Healthy Adolescents Leadership Coalition, Ready x 21

Activity 3

Strengthening Families (Family Resource Center Development): The Austin Project, with funding from the Austin Independent School District,United Way Central Texas, and numerous other community-based individuals and corporate funders, continues the development of school-based Family Resource Centers located in East Austin. The FRCs are designed to reduce student mobility, increase student attendance, improve student academic performance and stabilize families through strength-based case management, Parent Academies, and by connecting families to basic needs resource services. The FRCS also function as hubs that coordinate, link and leverage external resources to provides services within the schools. TAP FRC services benefitted more than 3,500 families during the 2011 school year. $193,375 in-kind intern and volunteer support services were provided to the campuses with TAP FRCs and $8,950 in cash donations were generated to support chronic family needs.

Filer

EIN

74-2634835