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Fighting Back Partnership Serves Vallejo Families in Need

Fighting Back Partnership provides different services to the community. These include: assistance with housing, food, child care, transportation, and health referrals.

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3 years ago

January 23, 2021

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The Fighting Back Partnership team says their motto “Our main mission is to end homelessness and strengthen families.” Photo courtesy of fight-back.org

Fighting Back Partnership is a non-profit collaboration that partners with businesses, residents to strengthen families, and support youth development in order to create a safe, healthy, and thriving community.

Fighting Back Partnership provides different services to the community. These include: assistance with housing, food, child care, transportation, and health referrals.

Through their Family Resource Centers, hundreds of families and individuals retained their homes, acquired long-term support for food and other essentials, and some have even moved from crisis to stability.

Under-resourced families often have few reserves to respond to financial emergencies, but with the support of their Family Resource Centers (FRC), families stay in their homes during a period of hardship while working with case managers to build long-term plans for increased stability and advancement.

Fighting Back Partnership’s Neighborhood Revitalization Program is an investment in the quality of life of some of Vallejo’s most underserved and under-resourced communities. Property crime, drug dealing, gang activity, prostitution, squatting, vandalism, and illegal dumping rob a neighborhood of vitality. Residents don’t feel safe or good about where they live, and criminal elements take advantage of the neglect.

Fighting Back Partnership’s Positive Youth Development Program, operates in all three Vallejo City Unified School District (VCUSD) high schools to provide to youth prevention education curricula on Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs (ATOD) use and Child Abuse Prevention Education.

The programs aim to equip students with information and tools to help them navigate the challenges they face in their everyday interactions and to give them the confidence and wherewithal to make informed and healthy decisions.

During the crisis caused by the pandemic, Fighting Back Partnership is still offering services at their site location. Learn more information about them through their website https://fight-back.org

The Family Re Family Resource Center

John F. Kennedy Library

505 Santa Clara St., 3rd Fl.

Vallejo, CA 94590

(707) 648-5230

North Vallejo Family Resource Center

Solano Middle School

1025 Corcoran Ave, Vallejo, CA 94589

(707) 648-5230

East Vallejo Family Resource Center

Jesse Bethel High School

1800 Ascot Pkwy, Vallejo, CA 94591

(707) 648-5230

Patterson Family Resource Center

Grace Patterson Elementary School

1080 Porter St, Vallejo, CA 94590

(707) 648-5230

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Vallejo Welcomes Interim City Manager Beverli Marshall

At Tuesday night’s Council meeting, the Vallejo City Council appointed Beverli Marshall as the interim city manager. Her tenure in the City Manager’s Office began today, Wednesday, April 10. Mayor Robert McConnell praised Marshall’s extensive background, noting her “wide breadth of experience in many areas that will assist the City and its citizens in understanding the complexity of the many issues that must be solved” in Vallejo.

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Beverli Marshall began her first day with the City on April 10. ICMA image.

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At Tuesday night’s Council meeting, the Vallejo City Council appointed Beverli Marshall as the interim city manager. Her tenure in the City Manager’s Office began today, Wednesday, April 10.

Mayor Robert McConnell praised Marshall’s extensive background, noting her “wide breadth of experience in many areas that will assist the City and its citizens in understanding the complexity of the many issues that must be solved” in Vallejo.

Current City Manager Michael Malone, whose official departure is slated for April 18, expressed his well wishes. “I wish the City of Vallejo and Interim City Manager Marshall all the best in moving forward on the progress we’ve made to improve service to residents.” Malone expressed his hope that the staff and Council will work closely with ICM Marshall to “ensure success and prosperity for the City.”

According to the Vallejo Sun, Malone stepped into the role of interim city manager in 2021 and became permanent in 2022. Previously, Malone served as the city’s water director and decided to retire from city service e at the end of his contract which is April 18.

“I hope the excellent work of City staff will continue for years to come in Vallejo,” he said. “However, recent developments have led me to this decision to announce my retirement.”

When Malone was appointed, Vallejo was awash in scandals involving the housing division and the police department. A third of the city’s jobs went unfilled during most of his tenure, making for a rocky road for getting things done, the Vallejo Sun reported.

At last night’s council meeting, McConnell explained the selection process, highlighting the council’s confidence in achieving positive outcomes through a collaborative effort, and said this afternoon, “The Council is confident that by working closely together, positive results will be obtained.”

While the search for a permanent city manager is ongoing, an announcement is expected in the coming months.

On behalf of the City Council, Mayor McConnell extended gratitude to the staff, citizen groups, and recruitment firm.

“The Council wishes to thank the staff, the citizens’ group, and the recruitment firm for their diligent work and careful consideration for the selection of what is possibly the most important decision a Council can make on behalf of the betterment of our City,” McConnell said.

The Vallejo Sun contributed to this report.