PRESS RELEASE:

Commission on Children and Families’ (CCF) Releases Summer Quarterly Report

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—The Charlottesville/Albemarle Commission on Children and Families (CCF) has released the summer publication of their Quarterly Report.  Highlights are:

CCF Generated Grants Awarded – The Charlottesville/Albemarle Commission on Children and Families (CCF) was notified of an award for grand funding through the U.S. Department of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services and three grants through the Department of Criminal Justice Services.

These grants include:

1. The Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Structure and Support Program received a second year of funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services.
2. The Byrne Justice Assistance Grant – Albemarle After-School Education and Delinquency Prevention Program will provide $71,250 over four years and a match of $3,750 from the Piedmont YMCA to open and operate an after-school program for students at Stony Point Elementary Schools.  
3. The CASASTART Truancy Prevention Program and
4. Teens GIVE Service Learning and Life Skills Program will both continue to be funded from separate Department of Criminal Justice Services two-year grants, each totaling $65,000.

The Pregnancy and Parenting Resource Guide – The Improving Pregnancy Outcome Workgroup has recently published a guide for Charlottesville and Albemarle covering a variety of programs, agencies and services for pregnant women and families with youth children.  The guide can be searched and downloaded from the CCF website.

CSA Changes – Beginning July 1, 2010, the City of Charlottesville Department of Social Services and the Albemarle County Department of Social Services will assume responsibility for administration of CSA for their respective jurisdictions.  Each locality will have its own CSA Coordinator and FAPT Scheduler.

CCF is a 28-member planning board that advises the Charlottesville City Council and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors on improving outcomes for children and their families.  To view the full report, please visit our website, www.ccfinfo.org, and click “Summer 2010 Quarterly Report”.

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