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Website: www.ebac.org

Mission/Goals: The East Bay Agency for Children supports children's academic success and encourages family involvement through a comprehensive after-school program. The program's goal is to support Hawthorne School as a positive learning environment for children and adults where children develop as healthy, successful students and responsible members of their community and parents are active participants in the process.

Source(s): www.ofcy.org; www.ebac.org

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-reported satisfaction with services increased slightly between fall 2003 and spring 2004 (89.4% versus 90.6%), while parent satisfaction increased somewhat more (83.8% versus 89.2%). The percentages of children and parents reporting improvement across the
seven developmental assets increased between the fall and spring (81.6% and 84.6% for youth reports and 82.9% to 91.1% for parents), but the percentages decreased for staff ratings (86.4% to 75.4%). Similarly, the percentages of children and parents reporting improvement across the nine areas of attitudes, skills, knowledge, and behaviors increased (74.8% to 80.6% for youth reports and 67.7% to 85.1% for parent reports), but the percentages decreased for staff ratings (68.4% to 59.9% ). Staff ratings of children's expectations of themselves declined (74.0% to 69.3%) as did their ratings of children's participation in home, school, and community (76.2% to 65.6%). 90% of children improved their school attendance more than the average improvement of OUSD students, and 63% improved their standardized language scores more than the average improvement of OUSD students.