Program Mission
Project LINK is a community based, non-profit organization dedicated to providing community support for children and their families that live in Hillsborough County, Florida.
Project LINK mission is to help children become healthy, safe, educated, and a contributing members of our society. Since April 1989, we have served over 9000 families, as a catalyst, by fostering linkages with support agencies and service programs from community, local, state, and national human services, targeting at-risk, low income families in early childhood s to high school levels that have been identified as; at-risk of suspension, expulsion, high truancy, academic failure and lack parental involvement.
Project LINK is committed to empowering residents of the community by improving parent-child relationships, thereby reducing truancy and dropout rates; improving grades and attitudes about school; reducing discipline referrals; improving mental health status of both the child and parents, which contributes to the reduction of child abuse and neglect.
Principles and Goals of Project LINK Programs
Project LINK is dedicated to the integration of education, emotional, social and human service needs of families in that reside in our community.
We are also committed to recognizing the strengths in families and utilizing all resources in formulating flexible strategies for support. All services provided through our office are developed in a culturally competent, family friendly manner.
Our main goals are to promote parent empowerment through a comprehensive neighborhood based program that improves the quality of the parent-child relationship, to effectively utilize a system of care by enhancing accessibility and utilization of existing support services to improve the quality of life for our targeted community, and to improve grade benchmarks required by Hillsborough County Public Schools standard ratings.
Participants
Project LINK serves children and their families via various programs, community events, & workshops with concerted efforts of other community agencies that increasingly value regular school attendance and parental involvement as pivotal contributing factor in school success. Achievement of these goals are evident by a continuous reduction in the number of students with high truancy and a corresponding continuous increase in the number of students successfully exhibiting improved grade benchmarks.
