Additional Measure #3. Number and percent of families and community members engaged in learning activities in Promise Neighborhood Schools.

Definition. Asked 'Have you or your family engaged in any learning activities outside of normal school activities at Fairview Elementary, Edwin Joel Brown Middle School, or Thurgood Marshall High School?' on the neighborhood survey to capture this information.

Neighborhood Survey.

Click Here to link to the applicable Neighborhood Survey Information Document in Section D on the first Scorecard.  You can click on the link to review the information and enter GPRA specific data information or collection challenges.

Click Here to access or upload your Data Plan and approved targets.

Student Success Navigators -  Student navigators prepare individualized plans for enrolled Hope Zone participants that identify needs, existing services in place, family dynamics, and educational outcome aims. Student Success Navigators connect participants to resources and services in the community and serve as the point-of-contact for participants or their families when barriers are impeding access to services. Each Student Success Navigator carries a caseload of 60 children/youth.

Family Resource Coordinators -  Omega CDC employs Family Resource Coordinator at Fairview Elementary, EJ Brown Middle, and Thurgood Marshall High to build relationships with people within and outside the school to engage faculty, staff, students, and families serving as a liaison for neighborhood residents, associations, nonprofits, businesses, religious organizations, and other potential partners.

Parent Cafe - Parent Café engages parents and caregivers in meaningful conversations about what matters most – their family and how to strengthen that family by building protective factors. Parent Café series are three sessions in length and are offered in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate working parents/caregivers. Through the Parent Café sessions, parents and caregivers share concerns related to raising their children, the community or job loss, and the need for socialization with other parents going through similar situations that can provide a positive influence and support in their lives. The Parent Café structure includes a full family style meal and child care for all participants at each session. Parent Cafés are offered at Fairview Elementary, EJ Brown Middle School, and 0-5 Families at Play on Purpose sites.

PACCE- Gates Foundation initiative for blueprint for pathways for college completion and career readiness: computer science/IT careers, health, advanced manufacturing and postsecondary education (K-16). Pathway programs are being built out for other in-demand career areas in an effort to maximize employment possibilities for students. PACCE will also include the utilization of YouScience, a program designed to help students chart their path from “I don’t know” to a feeling of confidence about their future career direction. By completing a series of fun and engaging brain games, students learn where their natural strengths are and how they can leverage their strengths in college and beyond.

EMPath Mobility Mentoring - Mobility Mentoring® allows providers to partner with families and individuals and help them acquire the resources, skills and sustained behavior changes necessary to attain and preserve their economic independence. Developed by Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath), a Boston-based nonprofit, EMPath is known worldwide for their coaching approach, founded on the belief that each pathway out of poverty is different. Recognizing the need to shift the way human services delivery is done, EMPath turned to the brain science behind poverty and what the science tells us is poverty and stress compromise the skills and behaviors most necessary for people to lift themselves out of poverty. In response to this finding, EMPath has developed Mobility Mentoring and The Bridge to Self-Sufficiency®. Omega CDC will offer EMPath Mobility Mentoring out of its Hope Center for Families.

Scholars of HOPE - Omega CDC will institute its Scholars of HOPE expanded learning, an afterschool and summer school program, at Fairview Elementary and Edwin Joel Brown Middle School for K-8 which boasts academic achievement and parent involvement facilitated through a mix of current and retired teachers, along with classroom aides, taught reading and math via the BELL curriculum. The program will operate for 3+ hours each day the schools are in session and include the following components:

• Prevention Program: Funded by Montgomery County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board, students will receive prevention education utilizing the evidence- based practices of Too Good for Drugs, Too Good for Violence, Second Step and Signs of Suicide.

• Passport to Literacy (Competitive Preference Priority 3): Omega CDC will utilize the Passport to Literacy at Fairview for K-6 students. Passport to Literacy utilizes English Language Arts (ELA) small group intervention and explicit structural strategies to address the needs of English learners. The project will use an ODE clearinghouse-suggested Passport Reading Journey curriculum.

• OnRamp Algebra (Competitive Preference Priority 3): Omega CDC will implement OnRamp Algebra, an intervention program designed exclusively to ensure that at-risk students are adequately prepared for Algebra 1, at 6th grade at Fairview and the 7th-8th grade at EJ Brown.

• focusMath: Omega CDC will utilize focusMath, an intensive, K–6 math intervention program which identifies at-risk students early and accelerates their learning with instruction that is intensive, balanced, and individualized, at Fairview K-5 students.

• Reading Buddies (Competitive Preference Priority 3): In partnership with Omega Baptist Church, Omega CDC will utilize Reading Buddies, a program in which two or more individuals read together allowing older students to model good reading to younger students.

• High Dosage Reading and Math Tutoring (Competitive Preference Priority 3): Omega CDC, in partnership with University of Dayton, will use one-to-one high dosage reading and math tutoring for 7th-8th graders. Members of Omega Baptist Church volunteer as reading buddies in Scholars of HOPE.

• Cross-curricular and Student-Led Learning (Competitive Preference Priority 3): Omega CDC will support Fairview Elementary and EJ Brown by performing project-based, interactive, and fun cross-curricular and student-led learning which teaches the essence of collaboration for students’ learning—a fundamental way to teach concepts in the context of multiple subjects at once.

Scholar University - Omega CDC initiated Scholar University in 2022 as an opportunity to close our cradle-to-career continuum after providing expanded learning in K-6 from 2017-2021 and scaling to grades 7th-8th in the 2021-2022 year. In academic year 2022-2023, Scholar University began serving transitioning 9th grade scholars with the intention to scale and close the pipeline through grade 12 to college and career during the Hope Zone project. Scholar University focuses on high school transition programs by employing career pathway programs to assess the interests and aptitudes of students in the middle grades. The program then creates coursework and program infrastructures that allow students to seamlessly progress through their academic work starting in high school and continuing to and through credential and degree completion.