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Rotary Club: Escondido After Five Project Title: Support for Under-Served Youth 1. Describe the project. What was done, when and where did project activities take place? The After 5 Club issued a check to Escondido Education COMPACT for assistance to at risk youth with preparation for college including, financial aid preparation, application assistance, entrance exams preparation and fees, work readiness preparation including job interview training, paid work experience, mentoring and individualized tutoring services leading to high school equivalency/high school diploma obtainment. The following activities were funded through this project, all took place within City of Escondido limits, specifically in the agency’s Learning Center located on 220 South Broadway. 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 25 tutoring sessions · The combined provision of 32 case management sessions · 1 completed 100 hour paid internship in the identified career industry of youth · 1 work readiness workshops, including resume building and interview As well as being able to leverage funds for the following enrichment activities for youth: · 1 trip to CSUSM College is For Me event · 1 Job Shadow Day 2. How many people benefited from this project? At least 40 Youth benefitted from this project 3. Who were the beneficiaries, how were they impacted by this project, and what humanitarian need was met? Escondido Education COMPACT is a unique nonprofit committed to the meeting the needs of at-risk youth ages 12-24 in an effort to eliminate any and all barriers that might impede their success. These barriers include but are not limited to the following: growing up in impoverished communities riddled with violence and rampant drug use and an absence of positive and relevant adult mentors/role models. Most of our youth would be first generation high school graduates/ college attendees. They come from working families that are unfamiliar with the need and importance of formal workforce development activities like resumé building and interviewing skills. Moreover, most of our youth are gang affiliated and come from families that are gang involved. Some of our youth are parenting, working two jobs and have a history of unsuccessful ventures in schools. Ninety percent of the youth in our program are high school drop outs/stop outs. They have had different life circumstances that have caused them to be credit deficient and age out of the public school system without earning their diploma. The majority of our youth have been found to have the functioning education level of a 5th grader, though they might be in their twenties. 4. How many Rotarians participated in the project? In total eight Rotarians actively participated in various elements of this project. 5. What did they do? Please give at least two examples, not including financial support provided to the project. Dan Barajas and Sue Barajas from Escondido Rotary After 5 met at the onset of this project with program staff to discuss ways in which the members might be able to participate and support the program. As a result, mentoring, tutoring, job shadow, and field trip chaperoning were identified as potential support activitites. Club Members participated in several community service activities with COMPACT students including packing care packages for our troops, passing out candy to children at a Trunk or Treat at the Salvation Army, Selling t-shirts and gourds to raise funds for a community pre-school program and volunteering to ring the bell at Christmas for the Salvation Army. In all of the service activities, they had the opportunity to work alongside club members and model the Service Above Self Rotary tenet. Dan and Sue Barajas have completed training to become youth mentors and are currently mentoring students in the Hero Project and continue to participate in monthly round table/training sessions with other Mentors . Sue also serves as a Youth Court Compliance Monitor in Education COMPACT’s and Escondido Police Youth Court program that helps young first time offenders of minor crimes by participating in a peer-to-peer justice program. Doug Clark, Kela Sconce, Sharon Clark and Sue Barajas volunteering at Operation America Cares with Youth Court Student. 6. If a cooperating organization was involved, what was its role? 7. Income
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