Rosalie Manor Backgrounder

This backgrounder includes an organization Role Statement, overview of Programs and Program Highlights (accomplishments) from 2006-07. To speak with a media representative for Rosalie Manor, contact Denise Hearden at 262.782.2750 or via email.

 

ROLE STATEMENT

Rosalie Manor Community & Family Services is committed to working for human and community development by helping families reach their full potential. Supportive services
are provided during pregnancy and after delivery to enhance parent-child relationships and help parents identify and pursue personal and career goals.

With understanding and compassion, Rosalie Manor Community & Family Services helps many single parents overcome problems of poverty, lack of support from peers, family members and other adults, and limited educational and career opportunities. Based on our commitment to families, the value-based educational program for adolescent
pregnancy prevention gathers children and their family members around the important subject of human sexuality.

Under the sponsorship of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Rosalie Manor Community & Family Services emphasizes quality programming, responsiveness to community
need and accessibility, regardless of ethnic origin, age, religious belief or ability to pay. With the needs of families constantly as our guide, Rosalie Manor Community & Family
Services provides innovative leadership in the field of pregnancy and parenting services in the Milwaukee area.

 

PROGRAMS

All of Rosalie Manor’s programs are voluntary, and include:

SUPPORTING TEEN FAMILIES (STF) is designed to provide intensive, family-centered services to pregnant and parenting teens and their families across Milwaukee. The teen parent is
the nucleus of this program with case management and parenting services being offered to the teen mother and baby, her parent (or another support person), and the father of the baby. This family-centered multigenerational approach has a greater impact on the family as a whole with a greater chance for long-term goal completion, strengthening of the family and reduces child abuses and neglect. There are two additional components to STF that assist families. The first is our nursing services that are offered to all family members. Our nurse provides childbirth education classes, nutrition information, assists families in creating a medical home, and helps answer medical questions family members may have. The second is our Job/Housing Coach who assists family members with basic employment attainment (job searches, completing job applications, interview tips) as well as finding safe and stable housing.

STF PROGRAM STATISTICS:

• Families Served: 128
• Teen mothers: 128
• Support person: 31
• Fathers: 26
• Home Visits: 1,921

TODAY’S DADS brings fathers into the parenting process to assist fathers in the areas of parenting education, job skills, employment, financial literacy, establishing paternity, and
child support. With Rosalie Manor as the lead, this program is part of the Southeastern Wisconsin Partnership for Responsible Fatherhood, which extends to Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha. Through this project we partner with St. Charles Youth & Family Services, New Concept Self Development Center, Children’s Service Society of WI, and Jericho Resources. This project began in October 2006.

TODAY’S DADS PROGRAM STATISTICS:

• Families Served: 61
• Home Visits: 425

WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR HEALTHY MARRIAGES is designed to help expectant/new parents develop the skills needed to form and sustain healthy marriages. Through individual and group-based programming
families will gain knowledge in the areas of child development, financial management, and job/career advancement.

This program is a component of the Wisconsin Alliance for Healthy Marriages led by Parents Plus, Inc. This program began in October 2006.

WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR HEALTHY MARRIAGES PROGRAM STATISTICS:

• Families Served: 52
• Home Visits: 169

FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF SHERMAN PARK helps parents strengthen their parenting skills and prevent child abuse and neglect. The programming is group based and works with the needs of the Sherman Park neighborhood.

• Families Served: 721

MILWAUKEE COUNTY ABSTINENCE PROJECT (MCAP) was a 6-month project program that utilized our Families United to Prevent Teen Pregnancy curriculum on an individual basis
with youth in the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare. This project was partially funded through a Title V grant in which we partnered with Center for Self Sufficiency. MCAP officially
operated from January through June, at which time, Title V dollars were no longer available for this purpose.

MCAP PROGRAM STATISTICS:

• Youth Served: 6
• Home Visits: 19

FAMILIES UNITED TO PREVENT TEEN PREGNANCY (FUPTP) Working with youth aged 12 to 18, FUPTP promotes abstinence until marriage by utilizing our nationally recognized curriculum that helps to develop healthy life skills. FUPTP is held as a daily after-school program and a summer program. In addition, thousands of youth receive presentations on our curriculum topics. Through our program, we work with several agencies that also use the FUPTP curriculum and help to promote abstinence until marriage throughout Milwaukee County.

NUMBER OF YOUTH SERVED BY:

• Rosalie Manor: 220
• MAFTA Coalition: 2,645
• Curriculum topic presentations: 1,410

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

• We designed and began a new collaborative effort to serve fathers that is partially funded through Federal Funds. With several partners, we lead the Southeastern Wisconsin Partnership for Responsible Fatherhood that work with fathers in Milwaukee, Kenosha and Racine counties.


• We partnered with Parents Plus, Inc. on the new program, Wisconsin Alliance for Healthy Marriage, in which we will serve 100 new or expectant single parents each year for 5 years. This project is partially federally funded.


• Of all the families served, only 2 were referred to the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare for abuse/neglect suspicions.


• 3 Baby and Me prenatal classes were held in which a total of 62 pregnant women, fathers and support persons successfully completed.


• The Family Resource Center of Sherman Park received the 2006 Blue Ribbon Award for “Hands Across Sherman Park” Child Abuse prevention campaign. This consisted of collecting more than 10,000 paper chain links from neighborhood schools, agencies and daycare centers to join together in Sherman Park on April 28, 2007.


• We were the center of several positive news stories about Families United to Prevent Teen Pregnancy that ran on CBS-58, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and a “Positively
  Milwaukee” story on WTMJ-4.


• During May, the national teen pregnancy prevention month, we held a rally promoting abstinence from all
  high-risk activities serving more than 100 youth and their families.


• Our abstinence-focused social marketing campaign targeted thousands of youth and parents through radio ads and a cinema ad that ran in the majority of Milwaukee movie theaters between October and January.


• More than 200 parents attended events hosted by Rosalie Manor and Best Men.