YMCA – Community Learning
Center at Sulphur Springs
Elementary School
Now in its fourth year, the
Community Learning Center (CLC)
at Sulphur Springs
Elementary has engaged the
entire community and created
a synergy between the school
and the neighborhood. The
CLC is a key element in the
piece of the Neighborhood of
Promise pipeline for
children age 5-12 to ensure
they transition to middle
school on grade level. For
the 2010-11 academic year
281 students were enrolled
in the CLC. Students in the
CLC participating in
additional tutoring sessions
with certified educators
made gains at a faster pace
than their peers not
enrolled in the CLC. Fourth
and fifth grade FCAT data
showed 56% gains met in
reading for CLC students vs.
43% non-CLC and 53% gains
met in math for CLC students
vs. 50% for non-CLC. Sulphur
Springs Elementary has
earned a Five Star School
status for the third year in
a row.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tampa Bay
– Middle School Program
This program
in
Sulphur Springs
provides the middle school
age piece of the pipeline
and will support fifth
graders who graduated from
Sulphur Springs Elementary.
Programming is currently
underway at the Bartholomew
Recreation Center to provide
access to comprehensive high
quality learning
opportunities geared toward
the youth’s specific
developmental needs to
engage this age group.
Planning is underway to have
this programming at Sligh
Middle School by January.
Year one program successes
included: 92% progressed to
next school grade; 91%
increased financial literacy
competencies; 84% missed
less than 5 days of school;
and 88% had no referrals or
disciplinary actions.
Hillsborough
Education Foundation –
Project Success
For the past three years
CFTB has funded this program
for students attending South
County Career Center (SCCC),
a Hillsborough County School
District alternative high
school that combines basic
academics with career and
technical training. This
year funding is for Simmons
Career Center in Plant City
as well as SCCC. Project
Success assists the students
with pre-graduation needs,
certification or association
expenses, tools, and
post-secondary scholarships
to technical education
centers or HCC. Successes
include a dramatic impact on
the graduating seniors with
a 100% graduation rate and
students pursuing
post-secondary education at
HCC or other college
increasing from 4% to 67%.
David A. Straz Jr.
Performing Arts
Center/Metropolitan
Ministries Partnership
School
This program provides a full
year of in-school music,
dance, and drama classes for
the homeless, nearly
homeless, and recently
homeless grade K-5 children
attending the Metropolitan
Ministries Partnership
School and after-school
programs for K-5 and teens
from the community. The
arts play a key role in
establishing social,
academic, and developmental
competencies among
economically disadvantaged
youth. Pre and post-program
assessments by teachers last
year include significant
development of student
skills in not only arts
discipline related skills
but also in problem solving,
communication, and
responsibility.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tampa
Bay – HYPE (Helping Young
People Excel) Program
HYPE is a gang prevention
program that provides
effective prevention
programs for youth who are
the most likely targets of
gang recruitment by
providing positive
out-of-school time
activities and youth
development programs.HYPE has been recognized
by the Florida Attorney
General as a best practices
program for delinquency
prevention. Youth in HYPE,
especially middle school
students, have become more
engaged in school and their
community, achieved higher
learning gains, and have
progressed academically at
higher rates than their
peers. Outcomes from the
HYPE program for the
2010-2011 year include: 81%
missed less than 5 days of
school; 88% progressed to
the next grade; 96% had no
referrals or disciplinary
actions; and 98% remained
free from delinquency and
gang involvement.
Ready For Life
Ready For Life (RFL) engages foster care youth, private citizens,
and public resources to
assist Pinellas County
foster youth in a successful
transition to adulthood.
Current and former foster
youth are key partners in
efforts to understand how to
improve community efforts
supporting their successful
transition. Youth serve as
part-time RFL staff,
volunteers, members of the
Youth Council, participate
in focus groups, and assist
in creation of a
youth-oriented website. The
website contains resources
for the youth in areas such
as health, education,
employment, housing, legal
matters, etc. During the
2010-11 year over 500 youth
have been engaged and over
100 community volunteers
serve on 9 committees
addressing youth issues.
Community Tampa Bay -
Anytown
Anytown is a youth
leadership and diversity
education program, the
mission is to empower
diverse groups of young
people to create more
inclusive and just schools
and communities, where all
individuals are treated with
respect and understanding.
The central objective of
Anytown is to enable youth
to discover their potential
to become leaders and to
empower them to be positive
role models in their
schools, neighborhoods, and
communities.
Program evaluations confirm
graduates significantly
increased acceptance of
individuals with backgrounds
differing from their own;
knowledge of causes,
consequences of, and
solutions to prejudice;
stereotyping and
discrimination; importance
they give to memberships in
broader social categories as
an aspect of their identity;
and importance they give to
being personally involved in
broader community and social
issues compared to peers not
attending Anytown.
American Red Cross – Nurse
Assistant Training for Aging
Out Foster Youth
The American Red Cross
provides career training for
youth aging out of foster
care to attend Nurse
Assistant Training (NAT) to
prepare participants with
the information and skills
needed to become Certified
Nursing Assistants (CNAs)
and provide quality care for
residents in nursing homes
and other health care
settings. Each scholarship
will assist with course
tuition, uniforms,
vaccinations, and state
licensing exam fees.
Students will be mentored to
ensure that this development
opportunity suits the goals
and needs of the youth prior
to placement.
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