Goal:

Serve 30 students per night in third through eighth grade from Southern Middle School, and Broad Ford Elementary School at the PAS program who are affected by incarceration and childhood hunger.

What/How Much We Do:
# of students served by PAS @ Oakland, per SY
# of students served 30 for more days, per SY*
# of parent/other adult volunteer hours, per SY
How Well We Do It:
#/% of students attending PAS 30+ days w/satisfactory school attendance (<16 days absent during the SY)*
#/% of parents satisfied with the PAS program per CSQ-8 survey results
#/% of students attending 30+ days with at least 1 parent attending 2 or more PAS activities*
Is Anyone Better Off?:
#/% of participants who report increase in self-sufficiency *
#/% of participants who report a reduction of food insecurity*

*Indicates GOC tracked performance measures

Strategic Goals

Reduce the impact of parental incarceration on children, families, and communities.

Improve outcomes for disconnected/opportunity youth.

Reduce childhood hunger.

Reduce youth homelessness.

Increasing trauma-informed services and preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Increasing opportunities for diversion from the juvenile justice system; and/or

Preventing out-of-state placements*

   

Strategy Description:

PAS will operate Monday- Thursday from 3:15 pm- 6:00 pm providing 30-45 minutes of recreation-physical activity/exercise and play. 45 minutes of homework and tutoring and also provide the students with a meal (provided from the SMS Cafeteria/ Board or Education). In correspondence with the University of Maryland Extension and the Adventure Sports Program at Garrett College enrichment activities will happen throughout the school year. Field trips, family meals and training also happen throughout the school year to promote positive parenting and interaction between children and their parents/guardians. Staff of the Partners After School (PAS) Program at Oakland will conduct outreach to the following agencies, who are aware of the PAS Program at Oakland, to increase participation and recruitment for in PAS from the Strategic Goal populations (children impacted by incarceration or hunger): Garrett County Extension Office – Food Stamp Nutrition Education (FSNE) Program PAS Director will meet with the Nutrition Educator at the Garrett County Extension Office to enlist her support in promoting PAS to all her clients. The Nutrition Educator offers FSNE programs to support the work of community agencies serving low-income families and may offer programming to: Public schools where 50% or more students qualify for free or reduced school lunch (or community agencies located within these school districts), community agencies servicing food stamp eligible audiences, and local food banks, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, etc. PAS Director will provide promotional flyer to distribute at every FSNE presentation that targets families from the schools served by the PAS@Oakland program. Western Maryland Food Council Western Maryland Food Council, in one of its roles, acts as a clearinghouse of information about free food resources in Western Maryland counties. The PAS Director will stay in contact with the Food Council to maintain an up-to-date list of Garrett County free food resources, and then will outreach to those contacts which currently include the following: Food Connect at St. Peter the Apostle Parish House of Hope food pantry and monthly dinners Garrett County Community Action food pantry Mountain Laurel Medical Center (Federally Qualified Health Center) food distribution site Mountain Top Food Pantry Garrett College S.I.N.G. Food Pantry Calvary Tabernacle food pantry Loch Lynn Church of God food pantry and Feed the Flock dinners It’s in the Bag, backpack ministry program Oak Park Church of the Brethren monthly meals Matthew’s Episcopal Church Stephen’s Table community suppers Divine Hope Church community soup kitchen Christ Lutheran Church weekly community meals Hoyes United Methodist Church monthly spaghetti dinners Summer Feeding Program through Board of Education PAS Director will ask a contact person from each food resource group to share the promotional flyer with families that attend or access the food resources. Garrett County Department of Social Services PAS Director will meet with various staff of Social Services to enlist their support in sharing information about the PAS program to clients. Social Services programs to be included are foster care, child support services, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Cash Assistance Program, and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program. PAS Director will provide promotional flyer to distribute to each potential family that could benefit from the PAS Program. Social Services staff will be educated about the enrollment process for the after school program so that they can assist the families as needed. Garrett County Parole and Probation PAS Director will meet with the staff at Garrett County’s Parole and Probation office who are responsible for supervising parolees, probationers and those on mandatory release from the correctional facilities to make them aware of the services provided by PAS and to enlist their support in promoting PAS to all their clients. PAS Director will provide promotional flyer to distribute to each potential family that could benefit from the PAS Program. Parole and Probation staff will be educated about the enrollment process for the after school program so that they can assist the families as needed. Garrett County Public Schools PAS Director will meet with the principals, vice principals, and/or guidance staff at Broad Ford Elementary School, Yough Glades Elementary School, and Southern Middle School to make sure that they understand the Strategic Goal targeted populations in order to effectively assist in promoting PAS to those students and their families. Staff will be asked to share the promotional flyer with all targeted students and their families over the course of the school year through day to day interactions, school events, or school mailings. PAS Director will work with school staff to send home a promotional flyer with applications for Free and Reduced Meals Garrett County Dove Center The Dove Center provides shelter services for women and children who have left their primary residence due to a domestic violence experience or other traumatic experience. Additionally, the Dove Center provides shelter for homeless women and their children, without requiring evidence of leaving a domestic violence incident.   PAS Director will meet with the staff at the Dove Center to make them aware of the PAS Program and how to refer or enroll students from the targeted schools that come into contact with Dove Center services. These services include individual and group counseling and emergency shelter to victims of domestic violence. Those families who are accessing the emergency shelter are impacted by childhood hunger and often time by incarceration of a family member. PAS Director will provide promotional flyers to distribute to each potential family that could benefit from the PAS Program. Garrett County Health Department PAS Director will regularly share information about recruitment and referral into the PAS@Oakland Program with the divisions of the health department that come into contact with families that may be impacted by incarceration or be facing hunger issues. These include the following: Women, Infants, and Children Program Early Care Home Visiting Program Dental Program Personal Health Services such as immunization and family planning Behavioral Health Services including Substance Abuse and Mental Health PAS Director will provide promotional flyer to distribute to health department clients that could benefit from the PAS Program. Health department staff also have the option to give a warm hand-off of clients directly to the after-school staff that are housed within the agency. In addition to outreach provided to partner agencies, PAS staff will also attend Back to School Night at each of the three target schools in order to make parents aware of the after-school program, eligibility criteria, services and activities provided.

Level of Change:

Programs

Primary Focus Area:

Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health

Data Category Tag:

GCHD Health Education and Outreach

Strategic Planning Alignment:

Estimated Implementation Date:

2018-10-15

Estimated Completion Date:

2022-06-30

Estimated Ease of Implementation:

Hard

Estimated Cost of Implementation:

Moderate

Potential Community Benefit:

Moderate

Health Equity:

Research:

2012- "The Relationship of Food and Academic Performance:A Preliminary Examination of the Factors of Nutritional Neuroscience, Malnutrition, and Diet Adequacy" Woodhouse, Allison and Lamport, Ph.D., Mark A. (2012) "The Relationship of Food and Academic Performance: A Preliminary Examination of the Factors of Nutritional Neuroscience, Malnutrition, and Diet Adequacy,"Christian Perspectives in Education, 5(1). Available at: http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cpe/vol5/iss1/1 https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1074&context=cpe   "Children of Incarcerated Parents and Academic Success" Megan Sullivan-National Council of Teachers of English http://www2.ncte.org/blog/2017/05/children-incarcerated-parents-academic-success/   "Effects of Parental Incarceration on Young Children" U.S. Department of Health & Human Services https://aspe.hhs.gov/basic-report/effects-parental-incarceration-young-children   Children Trauma Toolkit for Educators- The National Child Traumatic Stress Network https://www.nctsn.org/sites/default/files/resources//child_trauma_toolkit_educators.pdf Strengthening families impacted by incaceration: A review of current research and practice Prepared by: Jessica Meyerson and Christa Otterson- Wilder Research https://www.wilder.org/wilder-research/research-library/strengthening-families-impacted-incarceration-evaluation