Contact information:
Prescott Joseph Center
926 Peralta Street
Oakland, CA 94607
U.C. Berkeley
Language and Literacy, Society and Culture
Graduate School of Education
5627 Tolman Hall #1670
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
Website:
www.oaklanddusty.org/
index.php
Mission/Goals: Goal is to begin to bridge the digital divide in
West Oakland by providing after school and summer instruction in digital
story telling. In DUSTY's youth programs, participants work with
undergraduate mentors and experienced teachers to create their own digital
story. Besides improving writing, they learn to express themselves using
sophisticated software including Adobe Photoshop and Premiere. A
collaboration between the University of California's UC Links Program, UC
Berkeley's Graduate School of Education, and the Joseph-Prescott Center
for Community Enhancement.
Source(s):
www.ofcy.org;
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Type of Evaluation: Outcomes
Monitoring.
Objective: The Oakland Fund for Children and Youth (OFCY)
evaluation was designed to assess service provision and the effects of
services provided by organizations that received grants from OFCY. Please
note that the following summary focuses on evaluation findings regarding
the effects on children, rather than on service provision.
Impact/Outcomes: Child- and parent-reported satisfaction with
services declined between fall 2003 and spring 2004 (88.1% versus 71.8%
for children and 96.6% versus 94.4% for parents). The percentage of
children reporting improvement across the seven developmental assets
decreased markedly between the fall and spring (76.5% and 39.9%), but the
percentages increased according to parent and program staff ratings (90.9%
to 95.2% for parents and 79.5% to 86.4% for staff). The percentage of
children reporting improvement across the nine areas of attitudes, skills,
knowledge, and behaviors dropped substantially (90.0% to 48.5%), and the
percentages also decreased somewhat for parent and staff ratings (98.0% to
96.8% for parent reports and 87.0% to 88.9% for staff reports). Staff
ratings of children's expectations of themselves were similar at the two
times (59.4% to 59.1%), as were their ratings of children's participation
in home, school, and community (59.4% to 58.3%). Of the 13 middle-school
participants who completed the first half-year program term, participants
had knowledge of and/or could perform 92% of the 38 skills that were
taught. For the 11 elementary students completing the first half-year
term, the percentage was 78%.
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