CBHC Success Stories
Paintball Field Provides Positive Outing for Heart Gallery Teens
For some selected foster children featured in the Heart Gallery of Tampa Bay as adoptable looking for loving families, a June outing to the Blitzkrieg Paintball Field in North Tampa provided a lasting memory on a hot June day.
The adolescents, under the care of Camelot Community Care and Hillsborough Kids, Inc., got a lesson in team play while dodging colored paintballs with CBS 10 Connects 10 anchorwoman Ginger Gadsden.
Tracie Britt: Central Tampa FSRC Success Story
Tracie Britt first visited the Children’s Board of Hillsborough County’s Central Tampa Family Support & Resource Center to attend a provider workshop, but before she left, she discovered new doors about to open along her life’s journey.
Along with learning about various training opportunities, including employability workshops, financial coaching, and CPR and First Aid classes. And then in June 2010 came some good news: Tracie was hired as an assistant teacher for the summer program at the Ruskin FSRC. In the fall she plans to tutor at the Central Tampa FSRC and possibly other sites.
All because she stopped by the Children’s Board and visited the Central Tampa FSRC. “It has been my stepping stone,” she said.
Children’s Board ASO Helps Farmworker Family in Housing Crisis
The Children’s Board of Hillsborough County-led Administrative Services Organization (ASO) is a financial tool used to help children and their families identify, select, arrange, and pay for supports and services with qualified community providers.
The ASO supports a wraparound process in which case managers work with families to identify their strengths, goals, needs, and their own service providers through the development of a family support plan. An example of an ASO success story involves a family working with Beth El Farmworker Ministries to link it to the support services it needed.
