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Palm Beach County Community Services Department

Grants Funding To Community Partners Of South Florida

To Create Pathways To Economic Mobility For 300 Families

New Workforce Development Program Takes Aim At “Fiscal Cliff” To Eliminate Generational Poverty
In Riviera Beach And West Palm Beach Low-Income ZIP Codes
Palm Beach County Community Services Department Beach and West Palm Beach to increase opportunities and its focus on comprehensive economic development
has awarded Community Partners of Southwest for economic mobility and end generational poverty. for families and communities.
Florida (CPSFL) a two-year $357,000 grant through Families with children 18 years old or younger will be “Community Partners of South Florida has earned
the Securing Our Future Initiative to work with 300 eligible for the pilot workforce development program a strong reputation for their work in eliminating
families in the 33407 and 33404 ZIP codes in Riviera that connects parents to jobs, internship opportunities and generational poverty in Palm Beach County,” said
apprenticeships, and provides wrap-around programming James Green, Palm Beach County Community Services
offering financial education, coaching and tools for each Department director, a partner of the Securing Our Future
family to create its own action plan. CPSFL’s primary Initiative, along with Birth 22 United for Brighter Futures
partners in the program are Northend RISE and the and the Citizens Advisory Committee on Health and
Riviera Beach Community Development Corporation. Human Services (CAC/HHS). “They will be a strategic
Other important partners working in collaboration with ally that looks at each family’s unique challenges and
Nashville’s Wine CPSFL are Healthier Neighbors and BRIDGES at West aspirations to develop an action plan that will help them
Palm Beach.
achieve a higher quality of life for themselves, their
children and future generations.”
A key premise of the program is coaching individuals

CPSFL plans to begin offering services for the new
Country Will Have to pursue higher paying jobs while managing the “fiscal program in May 2021.
cliff” that causes low-wage workers to lose government
About Community Partners Of South Florida
support for child care, healthcare and other social services
Community Partners of South Florida is a $16 million
You Singing once their incomes rise. CPSFL’s comprehensive system comprehensive community development nonprofit agency
of supportive services, including housing, mental health
families facing social, emotional and financial adversity.
benefit to families as the agency works with them to
By Laura Berrio, Freelance Writer/Blogger services and community services will be a strategic headquartered in Riviera Beach that provides services to
move up the job and income ladder and overcome the By using a unique, breakthrough approach integrating
Tennessee has long uncertainty of moving away from financial aid. housing and financial empowerment, child and family
been known for whiskey “Many families face systemic obstacles to becoming mental health, and community services, Community
and country music, self-sustaining,” said Scott Hansel, CEO of CPSFL. Partners creates self-sustaining families and communities
and now for its award- “We are grateful to have been selected by Palm Beach and serves as a driver for growing its local economy.
winning wines. County Community Services Department to engage in For more information about Community Partners of
There are more the work of the Securing Our Future Initiative to create South Florida, visit cp-cto.org. Community Partners is
than 50 wineries and a wrap-around program that helps families move beyond a proud chartered affiliate of Neighborworks America,
30 varieties of grapes the surrounding socioeconomic factors that stand in their a national, nonpartisan nonprofit striving to make every
grown in Tennessee. way. Employment opportunities are the first step.” community a place of opportunity. For more information
This budding industry The program aims for program participants to obtain on Neighborworks America, please contact Hilary Rowe
across Tennessee is higher paying jobs, become self-employed, or open their Wiley at hwiley@nw.org.
attracting tourists and own small businesses. A unique incentive feature provides About Securing Our Future
supporting local farmers. This Southern state is known a matched savings program at a 1:1 ratio of up to $1,000 Securing Our Future is an initiative in partnership
for sweet wines, not hard to believe since this is the that participants may use for education or the purchase with Birth 22 United for Brighter Futures and the Citizens
birthplace of sweet tea! of a longer term asset that will support them in their new Advisory Committee on Health and Human Services
Over the years, the Tennessee wineries have won career, such as buying equipment for a trade, a vehicle, (CAC/HHS) that seeks to create pathways for economic
many awards and developed some excellent dry wines or costs for opening a new business. mobility for families with children ages 0 to 18 who are
to expand their offerings. The grant will fund two new job coaching positions living below 200 percent of the federal poverty level
While perusing some of the quaint towns at CPSFL dedicated to the initiative. Expanding into (FPL) with a special emphasis on families that are 100
surrounding Nashville, I found a winery that was a workforce development is a natural fit for the agency percent or below FPL and have the ability to work.
unique combination of Nashville meets Napa Valley!
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winery just south of Nashville, Arrington Vineyards,
in 2007.
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with gorgeous views, tasting room, and wine club.
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