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Orange County Children receive support from the Family Success Alliance - News of Orange: Education <br />http://www.newsoforange.com/education/article_16294e0c-5469-11e8-a3cf-5b29ecddf33b.html[5/14/2018 11:02:36 AM] <br />Community Links <br />Orange County Schools <br /> Hillsborough Attractions <br />Government <br />Tourism <br /> Additional Attractions <br /> Additional Community Links <br />Education <br /> Emergency Services <br />SuMoTuWeThFrSa <br />Advanced Search <br />79° <br />Fair <br />Home News Sports Education Arts & Entertainment Opinion Obituaries Multimedia Calendar Business Public NoticesBusiness Directory <br />Classifieds <br />Calendar <br />November 50336 <br />1 2 3 4 5 6 7 <br />8 9 10 11 12 13 14 <br />15 16 17 18 19 20 21 <br />22 23 24 25 26 27 28 <br />29 30 <br />today's events <br />browse <br />submit <br />Home Education <br />Story Print Font Size: <br />Orange County Children receive <br />support from the Family Success <br />Alliance <br />Posted: Thursday, May 10, 2018 11:44 am <br />By Elijah Larson, News of Orange Editorial <br />Assistant <br />Orange County is number one in the state for <br />income disparity and around 30 percent of its <br />residents earn below a living wage, recent studies <br />of poverty in the state have shown. The <br />Hillsborough-based Family Success Alliance is <br />trying to change this. <br />The organization, which began its work in 2015, <br />focuses on the most impoverished areas of the <br />county, helping families with children in school to <br />gain opportunities that can help bring their <br />children out of poverty. <br />Operating through the Orange County Board of <br />Health, FSA was created to be based off the <br />Harlem Children’s Zone, a similar organization <br />created in 1970 in New York. FSA employs <br />navigators, county residents with experience <br />working with impoverished children, who are assigned to one of two zones that the FSA works in. <br />Navigators meet with families that are a part of FSA to discuss what support the families need and how <br />they can achieve it. This process is called motivational interviewing, where navigators sit down with the <br />families and find out what they need for their children. The goal is to be able to get past everyday <br />emergencies and to look towards aspirational goals of the future, like securing better housing, a GED to <br />acquire a better job, or enrichment opportunities for their children, <br />“Sometimes when you’re in the thick of crisis it's hard to look at a bigger goal,” explains Kristin Prelipp, <br />communications manager at FSA. “But that bigger goal is something that can get you out of this.” <br />Family Success Alliance is also partnered with many other organizations, such as county wide literacy <br />programs, UNC health care, and many different educational opportunities for children like HeadStart and <br />Kidscope. <br />After meeting with navigators, families are then assigned to some of these programs, depending on the <br />goals that they’ve made, and what FSA thinks they need to be able to succeed. <br />Jobs <br />Submitted Photo <br />Family Success Alliance navigator <br />Family Success Alliance navigator Claudia Yerena, on the left, <br />stands with a family that has been helped by the organization. <br />Welcome!Login |Signup