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Website: leadershipexcellence.org/

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Mission/Goals: Oakland Freedom Schools Project provides a 6-week summer program for African American children residing in low-income neighborhoods. The program provides appropriate child and youth development activities and comprehensive academic support services with the goal of building study skills and abilities in reading, writing, and math; enhancing cultural awareness and self-esteem; and fostering leadership development.

Source(s): www.ofcy.org; leadershipexcellence.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: Nine out of ten (90.2%) children reported satisfaction with services in fall 2003, and nearly all parents were satisfied (97.3%). The majority of children, parents, and program staff also reported improvement across the seven developmental assets (72.6% for child reports, 79.4% for parents, and 88.7% for program staff). Similarly, a majority of children, parents, and program staff reported improvement across the areas of attitudes, skills, knowledge, and behaviors (74.9% for child reports, 83.3% for parent reports, and 93.5% for staff reports). Staff ratings of children's expectations of themselves were also high (83.9%) as were their ratings of children's participation in home, school, and community (83.8%). 90% of children reported an increase in their sense of belonging to a positive identity group, and 30% experienced an increase in their leadership skills.