Thriving Families

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Program: Community Development & Services

Primary Issue Area:

Social justice

Project Description:

The Marin Community Foundation created the Thriving Families Initiative (TFI) in 2000. Originally named the Families Made Whole Initiative, the TFI's purpose is to support the provision of services and opportunities to assist families to thrive economically, socially, and emotionally while assisting Marin service provision agencies to align their work and objectives toward a positive and thriving community of all Marin residents. The TFI has a support structure that acts a mechanism for initiative coordination, evaluation, and the delivery of technical assistance to participating agencies. TFI grew from a documented need to focus on supports that could help low-income families achieve long-term self-sufficiency and understand the systemic linkages that are at the core of the problems these families face at both the family and neighborhood level.