Under a very tight deadline, Mozena & Associates worked closely with a broad consortium of county agencies to design an integrated substance abuse and mental health treatment services program for the County's Dual Diagnosis Treatment Drug Court. The targeted participants are individuals with co-occurring substance abuse disorders and moderate mental illnesses. Integrated treatment services include assessment, treatment planning, residential, outpatient and intensive outpatient services and limited case management services.

Mozena & Associates partnered with a local nonprofit to create a very thorough program plan to serve substance abusing inmates in a correctional facility in California. The therapeutic community services are designed to prepare inmates for parole and successful transition to the community. The goal of the program is to foster permanent, pro-social change through a prison-to-community continuum of treatment that helps participants internalize new values, attitudes, and behaviors, enabling them to lead crime- and drug-free pro-social lives.

This client - a medium-sized school district - had not been successful in previous attempts at applying for this program, due to limited planning efforts and a lack of identified program partners. Mozena & Associates met with the lead applicant and designed a responsive and competitive program plan. This plan, combined with a well-thought out proposal writing timeline that took into account deadline pressures, solicitation of partners, and other variables, led to a successful outcome. The goal of the project was to establish and maintain six 21st Century Community Learning Centers to serve students at five targeted schools (four elementary and one middle) and at a local migrant center through collaboration with schools, community organizations, faith-based organizations, businesses, the city government, and private citizens to address the academic, social and literacy needs of the children, youth, and families.

The nationally known nonprofit that Mozena & Associates worked with on this proposal had previously been declined under this funding stream. M&A focused the proposal on the fact that the client's School-to-Career Program was unique to the County, teaching job skills to the underserved population of developmentally and/or physically disabled, special education youth who are at high-risk for becoming dependent on public support. M&A helped the client identify and articulate its strategy for working with this population, which resulted in full funding.

In our first project with this highly regarded local nonprofit, Mozena & Associates created an award-winning project plan designed to empower kinship caregivers of children ages 0 to 5 to nurture their children and strengthen their family as a whole. Program objectives included: (1) Providing case management and advocacy for at least 100 kinship families with children ages 0 to 5; (2) Providing health/developmental assessments, nurse case management, and follow-up home visits for at least 100 children; (3) Engaging caregivers in parenting education and home visits focused on child development and health enrichment; (4) Launching the Raising A Reader program; and (5) Ensuring that all activities are accessible in terms of transportation, language, and other issues.

Mozena & Associates was brought in by one of the largest school districts in the country to help design and write narratives for three different applications to the same federal program. Two of the three applications were funded, including Shaping Our Lives Everyday (SOLE). SOLE is a P.E. program for 1,200 students at 10 elementary schools that builds on and leverages services currently provided to 3rd-5th grade students by a USDA-funded and state-administered program, California Nutrition Network/Nutrition Education Project. The goals of the SOLE Project include increasing the ability of classroom teachers to implement a high-quality physical education program, and giving elementary school students the knowledge and skills to be healthy and physically active for a lifetime.

In an unusual partnership, Mozena & Associates worked with two first-time co-applicants that differed in size, experience, history and client populations to design and write an application for this new county program under extreme deadline pressures. This effort led to the first “Secure House” to be established in San Francisco in response to the urgent need to serve sexually exploited girls, ages 12-17, by providing them with a safe place to recuperate and assess their own needs and plan for their future.

Mozena & Associates helped this well-respected local nonprofit design a child care and after school program to provide a full range of programs and services for low-income, at-risk children and their families. We successfully met the challenge of working with a wide range of staff members from a number of different departments, through interviews and careful review of previously written program descriptions and budgets. This approach led to the design of a cohesive plan that unified their constellation of services under a single program umbrella. Services include information and referrals; case management; mental health services; academic services including literacy support, homework assistance and tutoring; enrichment and recreational activities; creative arts; computer training; and childcare for children ages 6 weeks – 5 years at the Childcare Center.