JAI’S HOPE | Application Preview
JAI'S HOPE is seeking government grants to establish a comprehensive support program aimed at addressing health crises affecting children and adults who are coping with grief and trauma. The funding will be used to set up the business, hire staff, acquire necessary equipment, and purchase a Sprinter van for transportation and outreach.
The business plan focuses on raising awareness of the challenges posed by unaddressed grief and its impact on behavior. JAI'S HOPE intends to collaborate with schools to help identify and address students' needs, and to partner with funeral homes to create support systems for families experiencing loss. The initiative aims not only to serve local communities in South Carolina but also to create a national awareness.
The application emphasizes the urgent need for funding by sharing a personal story of loss, highlighting the inadequate support available for children grieving the deaths of loved ones. This includes experiences with school counselors who lack training in grief and trauma. Recognizing a gap in resources, the founder pursued training with the Dougy Center and facilitated support groups in Florida and Georgia. JAI'S HOPE aims to expand these efforts to the local community, emphasizing the importance of support networks for families navigating grief.
In terms of competition, the application notes that existing services like hospice, cancer centers, and behavioral health programs do not adequately address the specific needs of grieving children and families. JAI'S HOPE's competitive advantage lies in creating a safe, judgment-free environment where participants can bond over shared experiences and process their emotions collectively, allowing for healthier grieving and coping mechanisms.
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General Information
Business Registration Number: 93-1987395
Location: Columbia, SC, United States
Length of Operation: 1-5
Number of Employees: 1-10 Employees
Annual Gross Income: $250k to $500k
Annual Gross Expense: More than $10M
Open to Loans: YES
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Funding Usage
Getting the business set up and fully staffed and equipment for clients and family and tra ing facility. Sprinter Van
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Business Plan
To establish an overall health crisis that has retained our children and adults that mask to appear to be behavioral health Work with schools identify on the set of changes in fundamental life Partner with funeral homes on the onset of death for support systems as a part of package to for family partner with funeral homes on the onset of death for support systems as a part of package to for family awareness and most counties in South Carolina make awareness on a national level Seeing the hostility in our children and adolescents from enforcement of children To continue the myth that will be okay not true. From my own personal experience having my daughter transition through life leaving a Four-year-old son and know one seem to understand he returned to school they bought him gifts and cards and expect all would be ok. The next school year came he attend school for 3 weeks and the teacher want to label him and place him with a mentor I spoke with Counselor with no training in grief or trauma. Meeting with the superintendent and counselors' administration no one Grief and License is the only program found for assistance is hospice n hospice companies or in the local children's hospital on the cancer unit. So in further research found the program that Accomplish in the community what was needed. So after visiting New Hope my grandson Blossom and wanted to help others So I attend Dougy Center for training and certification and have continued my quest with others and facilitating this out of my home facilitating in the state of Florida and Georgia and I see so much need here starting the Good Samaritan Program with Dr Stuart Hamilton from my pediatrician to a national community health center so I know that all things are possible
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Self Identified Competition
Hospice Cancer center behavioral health this program will give children and families somewhere to bond with others that have gone through similar loss and an active and open way to grieve with processing emotions with no judgment and funneling the channels through processing and it’s OK and learning the cycles and triggers
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