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Hi everyone.

My name is Daniel Dallas hairston and I am the executive director and founder

of women just like me a five oh one C three nonprofit organization.

Before I begin,

I want to thank you all for this opportunity and nominating or um

giving us this opportunity to be a potential recipient of this grant award.

So again, thank you.

Women just like me is a nonprofit organization that

provides supportive services and resources to at risk girls,

teen moms and those that are in disadvantaged communities.

Our goal is to combat teen pregnancy and

to decrease the rate of stds in franklin County

through our programs and services such as our Visa rewards program,

which is victory and sustaining abstinence which

is actually held in columbus city schools.

And we just opened the opportunity to serve

or to make it community based outside of columbus city schools.

We have also developed our Visa rewards program for parents,

single mothers

and young mothers.

This program is basically to educate and to teach

young mothers the skills required or necessary to parenting

and to really

put or to place the emphasis on

positive parenting.

So actually what your, what your grant will actually provide.

It will actually be over.

Or I should say directed towards our

parenting skills and education program for new mothers

and single mothers that are learning how to

be parents and really just need that additional support

within our parenting program. We provide child care

development education for young mothers

as well as mental health resources and even even counseling

services for postpartum depression and again for mothers that are

really struggling and just need some additional support and really

just trying to manage um being a new mother.

And they need also mental health support for some

of the things that they may be struggling with,

as I mentioned,

such as postpartum depression or maybe some other things

that may um present as challenges to them.

We also have a nutritional specialist that teach mothers

or educate mothers in terms of the proper foods

and healthy options for mother and child

and as well as financial literacy,

which is a big thing that we have actually

just introduced into our parenting skills education program.

So again, that is what your $1,000 would be applied to

specifically for our learning management system that we actually hold our

training within as well as payment for our instructors and stipends

for once the mother or the participant completes the program.

They have the opportunity to have points apply to

their visa rewards program to purchase necessities and essentials for

taking care of themselves and their child.

So again, thank you so much for this opportunity and I um again,

I wish everyone well in terms of um the other

organizations that is actually going for this opportunity as well.

So thank you again

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