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Oakland Unified Student
Risk Factors
At least 90% of our students are eligible for Title I services (educational, health, nutritional). •
41% of our students are transient on a yearly basis. (90%) of our students live in one parent working families. 85% of our
students have no one at home between the hours of 2pm and 6pm, and have no teen or adult baby-sitter. In addition, Oakland
Unified School District students have Police service activity that is 4 times higher than the average exists in any other
school attendance. Our students are at risk of becoming victims, and in some cases been victims of molestation attempts, neighborhood
gang activity, and “illegal drug” activity during afternoon hours in our neighborhood.
•60-65% of 2nd-5th grade students score below the 50 percentile in reading and math, and 35% score below
the 25th percentile in reading and math on the California statewide SAT-9 standardized tests. • 60% of our students,
as identified by teachers and/or students themselves (on the “Foundations for Learning Survey), approximately have one
or more of the “Foundations for Learning” characteristics
(Poor Persistence, Low Academic Confidence, Disorganization, and Poor
"Getting Along" Skills.) that leads to educational underachievement.
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5% or fewer students participate in organized sorts or scouting. Our students have no access to affordable
after-school, Saturday morning, or summer, educational, health/nutrition/, social skill development programs, recreational,
cultural awareness, fine arts, or technology exploration programs/services because of socioeconomic factors in our parent
community.
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Student Need
In order to reduce our student "risk factors” and student needs to promote student achievement and social
success. We are seeking funds to implement our locally developed “VisionsOne Young Scholars” Project. If funded,
this grant will allow us to:
- Improve schools by integrating community resources to provide supportive learning
environments for teachers, students and their families, by providing one-on-one peer education and tutoring inside the classroom
during day instructions, therefore decreasing the student/teacher ratio from 35:1 to 12:1 with an emphasis on school-based
after-school programs.
- Strengthen and build successful youth development programs that connect young
people to peers, family and community and build academic, personal, social, vocational, health, and civic competencies, with
an emphasis on academic support, youth leadership, and arts-based programs.
- Build the capacity of school/community partnerships and collaborations to engage
students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members to create supportive and sustainable learning environments.
- Reduce the causes and incidence of youth violence
through proven interventions that target young people at the greatest risk for involvement with violence.
- Strengthen youth development programs that connect young people to peers, family
and community and build academic, personal, social, vocational, health, and civic competencies, with an emphasis on academic
support, youth leadership, and arts-based programs.
· Provide Literacy Education that will extend, enrich and remediate their educational
progress, providing students with the foundations of learning skills (confidence, persistence. organization, “getting
along”) leading to improved academic achievement and emotional well being;
· Integrated health/nutrition/social skill development programs/services;•
Organized recreational/ fine arts/cultural awareness programs;
· Technology exploration in the areas of instructional television,
telecommunications, and other computer based explorations
connected to the regular school curriculum.
Laurissa M. Wells
Executive Director
Program Coordinator
VisionsOne Young Scholars Project
415-368-8107
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Likely Impact of
“VisionsOne Young Scholars” Programs/Services
The broad impact of “VisionsOne Young Scholars” Project is that its anticipated successes of this
project will build and sustain a “bandwagon of achievements” that will change our students forever and attract
additional future funding opportunities which will allow us to (1) increasing the scope and/or number of students/adults being
served year to year; and (2) extend the project beyond the life of the Grant due to its overwhelmingly positive impact on
students, parents and community. The commitment of staff and in the community is so high that it is anticipated that our Project
will serve as a model for similar “round the clock learning” schools in our city, county and state.
Community Impact
In addition to raising student academic achievement and meeting academic standards, “VisionsOne Young
Scholars” will provide student with a safe haven, and safe “learning” corridor that will raise their awareness
and skill levels in non academic areas (Personal Health, Social Skill Development, Recreation (organized sports), Fine Arts,
and Technology). “VisionsOne Young Scholars” Project expects to open “windows of opportunity” for
students to "Say No" to drug and alcohol abuse in their future, and to develop an enhance their multi-cultural awareness so
they can utilize their academic, social, self-health attributes in order to achieve their potential and become a more effective,
productive member of the 21st Century work force, and local community.
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All contributions are tax deductable.
Please make checks payable to:
IOTA Housing and Community Development Corporation. (IHCDC); P.O. Box 30243;
Oakland,
CA 94604-0243.501(c) (3), Fiscal and lead Agency of
VisionsOne Youth Foundation.
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Copyright 2005, Laurissa W.
Creating One mission, one goal, one vision....
making our community smarter, One Student At a Time
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