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2024-25 Application Questions
Part 1 Basic Information
1. Organization Name *
Family Matters Consulting - non-profit
2. Fiscal Agent (if different than above)*
Family Matters Consulting - non-profit
3. Project/Program Name *
Circle of Security - prevention program
4. Requested Amount *
$15,000
5. Name of Person Completing Application *
Dr. Judy Osterhage
6. Name of Person for Grant Communication and Contract for Grant Cycle (if different from above)*
Dr. Judy Osterhage
7. Organization Mailing Address *
248 San Nicolas Ave - Santa Barbara CA 93109
8. Phone *
805 570-8826
9. Email *
judy.familymatters@gmail.com
Part 2 Organizational Information
1. Purpose/Mission Statement *
Purpose - Family Matters Consulting is a non-profit here to fill in the gap focusing on the overlooked and underserved.
Our Mission - Stronger Families, Better Lives.
We believe Stronger Families, stronger schools, and stronger communities make a better world
2. Briefly describe your organization’s purpose, vision, primary activities, and operating structures *
Our Vision ....
Empowering, Equipping and Educating
Providing tools to build stronger family foundations to increase resiliency, build communication, and restore relationships with our youth in
the home, and the community.
Strengthen Parents
Rebuilding and reinforcing parents and families with stability and dignity for a healthy, stronger future
Reconnecting with teens and raising them to launch as adults
Revisioning being a grandparent–parenting grandchildren
Stronger Families
Reestablishing fathers’ roles and impact in the life of children
Recovering relationships for parents with addiction
Reestablishing relationships with incarcerated parents
Healthy Communities
Reaching and responding to underserved and overlooked families in need of educations and support building strong family foundations.
Restructuring adverse childhood trauma experience (ACE) outcomes through education and success strategies
3. Name of Executive Director *
Dr. Judy Osterhage
4. Name of Board President or Chair *
Jason Walker
5. Number of paid staff (full or part-time)*
0
6. Number of volunteers *
3
7. Describe the community(ies) your organization supports *
Foster and Kinship Care Education Programs
Trauma Informed Parenting
Parents
Former foster youth as parents
Resource Grandparents raising grandkids
Schools - Young children 0 - 6 - preschool - T - K
Early Childhood Education teachers - schools and centers
Parents in Recovery
Co-parent for court custody
Teachers and educators
8. Approximate Annual Budget *
Family Matters - $12,000 (Our budget from - Sept 1, 2023 - Dec 2023 - approx. $12,000). - MP Mariposas- $144,000
9. Major Sources of Funding *
Family Matters - Major funding at this time is from donations
Part 3 Project/Program Information
14. In the table below include a minimum of four (4) metrics or performance outcomes that
relate to the implementation/success of the project. Examples include: # of SLO City
residents served, # of referrals provided to individuals seeking social services.
Methods of Evaluation Indicators of Success / Measurable Outcomes
Number of families served 24 families served
Group attendance Number of session completed
Reflection sessions Session journal enteries
Evaluations Participants responses - anecdotal data
1. Please provide an executive summary of proposed project/program *
Program Goals:
• The goals of Circle of Security Parenting (COSP):
• Increase caregiver ’s capacity to identify attachment needs using the COSP graphic
• Increase caregiver 's ability to read and label young children's cues
• Constructing empathetic responses
• Increase caregiver ’s capacity to identify and regulate stressful emotional states (their own and their children’s)
• Describe ways a caregiver’ can provide comfort when their child is in distress
• Increase caregiver 's capacity to self-reflect and verbalize triggers
• Increase caregiver ’s ability to read and name young children’s miscues
• Recognize and identify negative attributions of the parent regarding the child’s motivations
• • Increase parent's capacity to demonstrate pause, reflect, and chose security promoting caregiving behaviors
• Increase caregiver 's ability to recognize and articulate ruptures in the relationship and facilitate repairs
Learning Objectives
- Name at least 3 ways brain development is effected from early trauma
- Name 3 causes, symptoms and risk factors of early trauma
- Identify 3 different types of attachment
- Describe three ways executive functions are disrupted by early trauma
To identify and explain 3 strategies working with children with attachment issues.
The essential components of COS include:
- Trained COSP Facilitators share the video program with caregivers, pausing to reflect with participants on questions connected to the
video content.
2. Total Project Cost?*
$19,200.00
3. Requested Project Amount *
$15,000.00
4. Please provide a detailed description of proposed project/program *
The core concepts of the program are:
The caregiver serves as a secure base from which the child can explore and as a safe haven to which the child can return for connection in
times of stress
All caregivers struggle at times to meet their children’s needs
Some feel uncomfortable/threatened by their child’s exploration (moving away)
Others struggle managing their child’s bids for comfort, protection or connection
Some struggle to maintain the bigger, stronger, wiser, and kind stance that defines the secure base and safe haven and instead tend toward
being mean or weak when children express their attachment needs
Given that attachment security is associated with the caregiver being supportive of exploratory behavior, bids for connection and the need
for no-nonsense tenderness, it is important that the caregiver develop the reflective capacity to consider what may hinder or help her/his
capacity to respond.
The program chapter 90 -120 minute - sessions are:
1 - Welcome to Circle of Security Parenting
2 - Exploring Our Children’s Needs “All The Way Around the Circle” part 1
3 - Exploring Our Children’s Needs “All The Way Around the Circle” part 2
4 - “Being With” on the Circle
5 - “Being With” Infants on the Circle
6 - The Path to Security part 1
7 - The Path to Security part 2
8 - Exploring Our Struggles
9 - Rupture and Repair in Relationships
10 - Summary and Celebration
5. Describe the community/population the project/program will support.*
Struggling Families with young children with severe challenging behaviors. Families seeking help and support and willing to learn life
changing strategies. Services offered in English and Spanish
Early childhood education serves as the cornerstone of a child's academic and social development, laying the groundwork for future
success in school and beyond. However, recent federal data highlights concerning disparities in disciplinary practices within preschool
settings. Preschoolers are expelled at a rate three times higher than their K-12 counterparts, with Black, Indigenous, and multiracial
preschoolers disproportionately affected by suspensions. These trends not only jeopardize the well-being of young learners but also
perpetuate systemic inequities within our educational system.
This grant proposal aims to address these challenges by implementing evidence-based interventions with Circle of Security focused on
promoting equity and inclusion in early childhood education.
Objectives:
- Reduce the incidence of preschool expulsions and suspensions, particularly among marginalized communities.
- Implement culturally responsive practices to create nurturing and inclusive learning environments for all preschoolers.
- Provide professional development opportunities for educators to enhance their capacity in addressing implicit bias, fostering cultural
competence, and implementing trauma-informed approaches.
- Forge partnerships with community organizations and mental health professionals to provide additional support services for children and
families facing socio-emotional challenges.
6. The HRC has identified homeless prevention including affordable and alternative housing, supportive services, and
transitional housing as the main funding priority. Does your grant request meet this funding priority?*
Yes
No
7. Which other priority of the non-ranked HRC funding priorities does your request support? Please check the appropriate
boxes:*
Hunger and malnutrition prevention
Supportive physical and mental health services for those in need
Services for seniors and/or people with disabilities in need
Supportive and developmental services for children and youth in need
Services encouraging diversity, equity, and inclusivity in marginalized communities
8. Provide timeline for project *
Proposed Project Plan - Circle of Security
Family Matters Consulting
Dr. Judy Sullivan Osterhage - Executive Director
MP Health Clinic
Silvia Wasjutin - Director
Proposed Project Plan Process - Circle of Security
• Connection with agencies, schools and families - needing services to support their family – immediately upon grant awarded
• Training based on language needs of families - appropriate trainer assigned
In-person training sessions:
• Secure easy access training facility location with easy access to families being served
• With families established send information about the training session process
• Create e-mail group distribution for each group
- To share important additional materials and relevant resources
- Send weekly handouts and reminders of upcoming class to assure attendance
- To have a line of communication with facilitators to answer questions
- To communicate participation attendance expectations
• Generate copies of handouts corresponding with each class session
• Provide water, pens and other necessary items to support training success
On-line - Zoom educational group sessions
• With established families, send information about the training session process
• Contact families with zoom links for entire session
• Send group zoom protocols
• Create email groups for each participation group:
- To share important additional materials and relevant resources
- To send weekly handouts and reminders of upcoming class to ensure attendance
- To have an established line of communication with facilitators to answer questions during the week
- To communicate participation attendance
9. Identify any partnerships/collaborations that are supporting this project/program and their roles *
Mariposas Project Health/MPHealth is our partner agency for this project. MP Health has already been providing mental health services to
the SLO county community through their clinic and therapy services. MP Health also has trained COS facilitators in the area, a clinic site as
well as other spaces in the county, that will allow us to offer this program to larger in person groups.
MP Health role will be of an equal partner that will provide their COS facilitators that can help offer this program bilingually (Spanish) and in
location more difficult to reach such as San Miguel, Shandon, and Northern Paso Robles.
10. Describe your plan for sustainability beyond the City’s one-year award funding *
We will continue offering the services to school, agencies, and organization serving families struggling with their children’s behavioral issues.
We will continue promoting and community outreach for donations. We will seek other grant opportunities that apply to our mission and
vision. We will plan on fund raising and increasing the services we can continue to provide to families, teachers and schools.
11. Describe the plan for promoting this project, program, or service within the City of San Luis Obispo *
Promotion - through Family Matters website, Mariposas Project Health contacts. Presentations to local SLO agencies and schools (Head
Start). Email information campaigns. Offering information presentations in person and on zoom call meetings.
12. Est. Number of people served through this project/program *
200
13. Est. Number of SLO City Residents served through this project/program *
200
Attachments
Copy of Organization’s most recent complete fiscal year financial statement (for the previous year because it is the
middle of the current fiscal year) including a statement of financial position/balance sheet, statement of revenue &
expenses/income statement, profit & loss.
Financial Statement *
Combined Finacial Statement.pdf 745.76KB
1-page Organization Chart *
First 5 - organizationalk chart.pdf 78.06KB
Document Certifying Federal Tax-Exempt Status *
FMC - Tax Excempt letter copy.pdf 28.05KB
1-page detailed budget for the program including how the total requested amount of grant would be spent.
Budget *
First 5 - Mariposa Grants Budget feb 20.xlsx 11.41KB
1-page DEI statement that includes:
Applicants’ understanding and application of DEI
Affirming language that creates access and a sense of belonging in our community apart from grant
Explain how this project will advance DEI in the City of SLO
DEI Statement *
DEI Statement - First 5. Grant -docx 2.pdf 51.09KB
Organizational Chart - Family Matter Consulting and Mariposas
Director: SIlvia Wasjutin/SLP
Program Manager: Kandice Kirkland
Locations: SB Clinic, Santa Maria site, Atascadero Clinic, Eureka Clinic
Therapists: SLPs, OTs, PTs, Counselors
Programs: Speech Pathology, Occupations and Physical Therapy, Hannen, COS,
Prenatal Stimulation and Bonding
Family Matters Consulting - Dr. Judy Osterhage - Executive director
Dr. Judy Osterhage - Circle of Security - Certified Facilitator
Katy Hove - Circle of Security - Certified Facilitator
Family Matters Consulting Register through 02/24/24:
Date No./Ref.Name Account Memo Amount C Balance
03/31/22 Judy Osterha...Charitable Donat...22.00 397.00
03/31/22 Monticito B&T Bank Income:Inte...0.10 397.10
04/25/22 kajabi Consulting Expe...FMC web...-149.00 248.10
04/29/22 Monticito B&T Bank Income:Inte...0.02 248.12
04/29/22 kajabi Consulting Expe...FMC web...-149.00 99.12
04/29/22 go daddy.com Consulting Expe...domain n...-31.16 67.96
05/31/22 Monticito B&T Bank Income:Inte...0.01 67.97
06/01/22 kajabi Consulting Expe...FMC web...-149.00 -81.03
06/01/22 Monticito B&T Bank Fees -34.00 -115.03
06/07/22 Judy Osterha...Charitable Donat...300.00 184.97
06/07/22 Monticito B&T Bank Fees -34.00 150.97
06/27/22 secratary of ...Judy Checking - ...21.00 171.97
06/28/22 National Phil...Charitable Donat...10,000.00 10,171.97
06/28/22 kajabi Consulting Expe...FMC web...-149.00 10,022.97
06/28/22 Monticito B&T Consulting Expe...reimburs...-400.00 9,622.97
12/28/23 kajabi Consulting Expe...FMC web...-149.00 9,473.97
12/29/23 Monticito B&T Bank Income:Inte...0.05 9,474.02
12/29/23 kajabi Consulting Expe...FMC web...149.00 9,623.02
12/29/23 United Way ...Charitable Donat...Judy emp...104.04 9,727.06
12/29/23 Wells Fargo ...Charitable Donat...Katy - We...1,000.00 10,727.06
12/29/23 kajabi Consulting Expe...FMC web...-1,428.00 9,299.06
12/29/23 Judy Osterha...Charitable Donat...Judy reim...-4,295.64 5,003.42
01/31/24 Monticito B&T Bank Income:Inte...0.62 5,004.04
01/31/24 Circle of Sec...Consulting Expe...-998.00 4,006.04
Register 02/24/24
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Circle of Security - Parent Support Program $15,000
Facilitator
2 - Facilitators per Series 14,400
4 group programs of Circle Of Security
English and Spanish groups as needed
Program Coordinator 400
$20.00 / hour
Materials 200
Requested Funds 15,000
In-Kind services
Volunteers 1,600
Program Recruiter 600
Proofreader and editor 300
Computer donation 1,200
Grant Development and Research 500
In-Kind services 4,200
TOTAL - Program Costs 19,200
Family Matters Consulting and Mariposa
Circle of Security - Parent Support Program 30,000
Facilitator
2 - Facilitators per Series 28,800
8 group programs of Circle Of Security
English and Spanish groups as needed
Program Coordinator 800
$20.00 / hour
Materials 400
Requested Funds 30,000
In-Kind services
Volunteers 3,200
Program Recruiter 1,200
Proofreader and editor 300
Computer donation 1,200
Grant Development and Research 500
In-Kind services 6,400
TOTAL - Program Costs $36,400
Possible extra Funds - $30,000
Circle of Security - Parent Support Program 45,000
Facilitator 43,200
2 - Facilitators per Series
12 group programs of Circle Of Security
English and Spanish groups as needed
Program Coordinator 1200
$20.00 / hour
Materials 600
Requested Funds 45,000
In-Kind services
Volunteers 4,800
Program Recruiter 1,800
Proofreader and editor 300
Computer donation 1,200
Grant Development and Research 500
In-Kind services 8,600
TOTAL - Program Costs $53,600
Possible extra Funds - $45,000
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – Statement
At Family Ma+ers Consul3ng and Mariposas, we are deeply commi+ed to
championing diversity, equity, and inclusion in all facets of our work. We firmly
believe in the inherent value and dignity of every family, and our mission is
centered around mee3ng the diverse needs of families who are oCen overlooked
or underserved.
Both agencies understand that adversity and trauma do not discriminate, and we
are dedicated to addressing these challenges by empowering, equipping, and
educa3ng families to navigate and overcome them. We recognize that families
come from various backgrounds and face unique obstacles, and we are commi+ed
to providing tailored support to ensure that every family has the tools and
resources they need to thrive.
Our focus on empowerment involves providing families, par3cularly those from
low-income backgrounds or facing disadvantage, with the necessary tools to build
stronger family founda3ons. Through our programs and services to San Luis
Obispo County. We aim to increase resilience, enhance communica3on, and
restore rela3onships within families and their communi3es.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we acknowledge the increased struggles
faced by many families, including behavioral challenges among children and
disrup3ons in early childhood educa3on. We are commi+ed to addressing these
issues head-on by offering support and resources to help families navigate these
unprecedented 3mes and build a be+er future for their children.
Our ul3mate goal is to contribute to a decrease in abuse and neglect, improve
school success for children, and set families on a be+er trajectory towards overall
success and well-being. We recognize the importance of parent reunifica3on and
work 3relessly to support families in rebuilding and strengthening their bonds.
At Family Ma+ers Consul3ng and Mariposas, diversity is celebrated, equity is
upheld, and inclusion is embraced. We are commi+ed to fostering a culture where
every family feels valued, respected, and empowered to achieve their full
poten3al. Through our dedica3on to DEI principles, we strive to create posi3ve
and las3ng change in the lives of families we serve and in the broader community.