Oakland County, MI – Promise Village: Home for Children has been approved by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to receive a grant which will be used to study and research the feasibility of replicating the Promise Village early intervention program for abused, neglected and troubled children around the nation.  The project is funded with a planning grant in the amount of $199,515.

“We are excited that the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is partnering with Promise Village to develop a strategy to help more hurting children in America,”  says Promise Village Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Tim Coldiron.  “We truly believe that the early intervention programs we offer, such as our Animal-Assisted
Therapy program and “Promises Stage System,” are proactive and cutting-edge approaches to helping at-risk children and their families,”  indicates Coldiron.
Promise Village: Home for Children provides a caring, therapeutic, residential intervention program for
hurting children and their families.  Promise Village was founded in 1996, by a group of Metro-Detroit
mental health professionals and citizens, who recognized the need to develop a community-based, early
intervention program/facility to care for abused, neglected and troubled children.  Promise Village is located in Northern Oakland County.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundations was established in 1930 “to help people help themselves through the practical application of knowledge and resources to improve their quality of life and that of future generations.”  Its programming activities center around the common vision of a world in which each person has a sense of worth; accepts responsibility for self, family, community, and societal well being; and has the capacity to be productive, and to help create nurturing families, responsive institutions, and healthy communities.
To achieve the greatest impact, the Foundation targets its grants toward specific areas.  These include: health; food systems and rural development; youth and education; and philanthropy and volunteerism.
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Within these areas attention is given to exploring learning opportunities in leadership; information and
communication technology; capitalizing on diversity; and social and economic community development.  Grants are concentrated in the United States, Latin American and the Caribbean, and the southern African countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
In a recent report on youth violence in America, compiled by the United States Surgeon General, one of the priorities called for by the Surgeon General stated that juvenile agencies should “facilitate the entry of youths into effective intervention programs rather than incarcerating them.” Currently, there are only a handful of private facilities in the United States willing and competent enough to take on the serious task of early intervention in community-based, residential treatment for children at-risk.  This planning grant will prepare Promise Village to offer innovative early intervention programs to agencies across the nation.
The planning grant includes many different initiatives including a feasibility study, benchmark opportunities, program video production, a communications technology upgrade and office space conversion.  Promise Village will also be hiring a full-time Director of Development to implement and develop fundraising strategies for the organization.
Promise Village is governed by an exceptional Board of Directors, which includes Mort Crim, Art Linkletter, Wade Fleming and Rick and Joyce Inatome.  Government and community leaders such as Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, Oakland County Prosecutor David Gorcyca and Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Joan Young have also endorsed Promise Village.
For more information about Promise Village, or if you are interested in partnering with Promise Village to help more at-risk children, please visit their website at www.promisevillage.com or call them at 1-877-A-PROMISE.