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Website: www.mafei.org/OurPrograms/

ChildrenYouthGrants.asp

Mission/Goals: Our mission is to develop relationships and mobilize resources that create opportunities for all children in the Oakland public schools to achieve excellence. MAFEI provides awards to enable more than 200 economically challenged children and youth (from newborn to 20 years of age) to attend conferences, camps, training sessions, and workshops. A major focus of the Children and Youth grants is to enhance young people's development and resiliency for life's challenges.

Source(s): www.ofcy.org; www.mafei.org/OurPrograms/

ChildrenYouthGrants.asp

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 was similar in fall 2003 and spring 2004 (91.4% versus 91.6%), while parent satisfaction decreased slightly (98.4% versus 96.2%). The percentage of children and parents reporting child improvement across the seven developmental assets decreased between the fall and spring (77.2% and 71.7% for child reports and 89.5% to 78.3% for parents).