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Rotary Club: Escondido After Five Project Title: COMPACT for Underserved Youth 1. Describe the project. What was done, when and where did project activities take place? The After 5 Club funded COMPACT’s Workforce Development Component. Where Out of School Youth or Soon to Age Out of School youth can still gain the benefits of individualized tutoring customized to their educational goals, including High School Equivalency Certification. The program is also able to help with College Prep and Application Process, Financial Aid Prep as well as Work Readiness Preparation including Resume Building, Interviewing Skills classes, assistance procuring interview clothes and paying for testing fees and transportation. 2. How many people benefited from this project? 40 3. Who were the beneficiaries, how were they impacted by this project, and what humanitarian need was met? With the funding, Escondido Education COMPACT was able to leverage the cost of offering the following activities:
• The enrollment and case management of 10 youth • The combined provision of 40 tutoring sessions • The combined provision of 30 case management sessions • work readiness workshops, including resume building and interviewing skills • The combined provision of $523.75 in supportive services • Financial assistance paying for 15 high school equivalency subject tests
As well as being able to leverage funds for the following enrichment activities for youth: • 1 trip for 30 youth and 3 staff to CSUSM College is For Me event These youth were helped to get a higher education and leave gang activities so they can provide the basic needs for their families and overcoming the poverty and ignorance barriers that limit their success. 4. How many Rotarians participated in the project? 5 5. What did they do? Please give at least two examples, not including financial support provided to the project. One Rotarian has been a committed Compliance Monitor in our Juvenile Youth Court for the last two years. She volunteers her time every week to checking in with at-risk youth, who have committed first time offense and have opted to participate in our Juvenile Diversion Program. If these youths can complete the requirements of their sentencing/contract, their record will remain free of blemish. Terms of the contract may include counseling, community service, periodic drug testing, substance abuse classes, tutoring, and of course the absence of any further negative interaction with law enforcement. This Rotarian has taken several cases throughout her service and has taken time out of her schedule and life to encourage and challenge the lives of the young people in her community. Another Rotarian, has consistently been a presence in our organization and has participated in several of our service events including neighborhood cleanups and recognitions. The current club President, serves by offering a boxing class to some of our youth through his Academic League program. He has run this program for the last two years offering free boxing classes in collaboration with one of our programs – we are therefore able to offer enrichment and recreation to a population who has historically never been able to reap the benefits of it because of their own means. Lastly, yet another Rotarian has served in our Project Hero Mentoring Program. A 1:1 yearlong, evidence based community mentoring program for Gang Nexus Youth. He has been an outstanding role model and support for his mentee, he has provided him with guidance and counseling, they go out to College Fairs and Chicano Park Events together, they have dinner together every month and talk almost daily. 6. If a cooperating organization was involved, what was its role? 7. Income
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District must retain receipts of all expenditures for at least five years. Please scan and upload to the project's "Documents" tab all invoices (be sure they are marked "paid"), receipts and/or copies of checks for the full amount of the project budget. By signing this report, I confirm that to the best of my knowledge these District Grant funds were spent only for eligible items in accordance with Trustee-approved guidelines, and that all of the information contained herein is true and accurate. I also understand that all photographs submitted in connection with this report will become the property of RI and will not be returned. I warrant that I own all rights in the photographs, including copyright, and herby grant RI and TRF a royalty free irrevocable license to use the photographs now or at any time in the future, throughout the world in any manner it so chooses and in any medium now known or later developed. This includes the right to modify the photograph(s) as necessary in RI's sole discretion. This also includes, without limitation, use on or in the web site, magazines, brochures, pamphlets, exhibitions and any other promotional materials of RI and TRF.
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