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SSI SCHOOLING SUPPORT PROGRAMME YEAR TWO REPORT 2020-2021

How does it feel to be part of LASCO Chin Foundation’s schooling support programme?

What do you like best about the programme?

Has been good as it provides stuff that I needed like food.

The opportunity we get to come to school sometimes and relax.

Ariana | 14

Shyiann | 13

What do you like best about the programme?

How does it feel to be part of LASCO Chin Foundation’s schooling support programme?

I get to leave home and be amongst friends to learn.

Feel good as it help me to concentrate more on me and not worry about things.

Shanoya | 13

Jordan | 13

How does it feel to be part of LASCO Chin Foundation’s schooling support programme?

Feel good as most time before entering the programme I didn’t have access to many things like the food which I do now Tashiena | 14

What do you like best about the programme?

That the Social Worker always help us out and make sure we are ok. Shennae | 13

Introduction

The SSI Schooling Support Programme Team

Summary of Academic Performance

Academic Performance Highlights

Literacy & Numeracy

Intellectual Quotient

Psychosocial Development Report

Psychological Intervention

Social Work/Case Management

Gender Mentorship Programme

11-12

Parenting Workshop Report

Nutritional Support: Care Packages Report

Key Results To Date

Upcoming Activities For Year 3

What do you like best about the programme?

When we are together as a team at the Girls' session.

Mickayla | 13

LCF SSI Schooling Support Programme Year 2 Report 2020-2021

Introduction Our

Sustainable

Socio-Economic

Intervention (SSI) Schooling Support Programme© is designed to guide and support youth most predisposed to experience poverty and exposure to the criminal justice system and/or criminality. A key feature of the programme is its flexibility to meet our students’ varied individual needs while curbing truant and delinquent behaviours, all the

Target Group A

The SSI Schooling Support Programme Team

Most at-risk students

ROSALEA HAMILTON Chief Executive Officer

PARTICIPANTS

Each student benefitted from: Financial, Nutritional, Behavioural/ Psychological, Mentorship, Educational, and Parental Support, and Character and Social Development Programmes

TAHIRAH FRASER

Operations and Programme Manager

while keeping them on par with the

LISA-GAYE BENDER

National Schooling Curriculum (NSC).

Executive Assistant

To this end, our students are assessed and are grouped according to several factors

which

include:

their

vulnerability, their attendance rates, their unresolved psychological and social issues, and their parents’ levels of involvement.

Target Group B Less vulnerable students

PARTICIPANTS

Each student benefitted from: Mentorship, Nutritional Support, Educational, and Parental Support, and Character and Social Development Programmes

LCF SSI Schooling Support Programme Year 2 Report 2020-2021

PAUL IRVING Behavioural Specialist

ANNA-KAY MCINTOSH Social Worker

LCF SSI Schooling Support Programme Year 2 Report 2020-2021

Summary of Academic Performance

Academic Performance Highlights Literacy & Numeracy

▪ All our participants received formal education and extra lessons via online methods only.

89 APPROXIMATELY

OF PARTICIPANTS

now perform at or above the average of their peers. With no other known variables to separate the participants from their peers, the data suggests that the SSI programme positively impacts our students’ academic performance.

▪ Lessons were delivered twice per week for both literacy and numeracy, with a total of 64 classes being delivered between March – June 2021. ▪ Literacy (reading, writing and speaking), was facilitated by Ortavia ▪ Manning-Dixon of the Jamaica Diaspora Taskforce. ▪ Numeracy Sessions were facilitated by Suedane Pierce, a Mathematics ▪ Numeracy Specialist. Her sessions covered the Ministry of Education’s ▪ Mathematics Pathway II Curriculum as our students are at the lower tier of Pathways I and II. ▪ In response to the displacement our students experienced due to mandatory distance learning, an additional module, “Growth Mindset Lessons”, was introduced

Variables Measured: Word Reading, Sentence Comprehension and Spelling ▪ All variables trended upwards, with the ‘ability to recognize words’ demonstrating the sharpest increase from a grade achievement of 6 to 10 ▪ ‘Sentence comprehension’, which is usually the most concerning of the three variables, has steadily increased since the start of the programme and is currently at a grade 6 attainment level ▪ Numeracy remained stagnant at a grade 5 level of achievement

LCF SSI Schooling Support Programme Year 2 Report 2020-2021

Intellectual Quotient Variables Measured: Verbal Comprehension, Perceptual Reasoning, IQ ▪ Intellectual functioning and capacity has steadily increased over the length of the programme ▪ All variables have increased by 4 units of measure

Psychosocial Development Report

▪ This positive trend signifies that the average participant in the programme now functions at or around his/her age appropriateness

Psychological Intervention Variables Measured: Self-Concept, Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Disruptive Behaviour

4/5

of the variables trended upward, with the exception being ‘selfconcept’ which continues to trend in the right direction

▪ The group's levels of anger and anxiety, which showed the highest elevations in 2020, are now both within the acceptable range of measure ▪ The trend proved same for the group’s levels of depression and disruptive behaviours which both elevated in 2020, but now trend downward and are within an acceptable range of measure

LCF SSI Schooling Support Programme Year 2 Report 2020-2021

Social Work/ Case Management

Gender Mentorship Programme Boys’ Group

▪ Monthly home visits of 15 homes were carried out by our Social Worker and Behavioural Specialist ▪ On average, 13-15 monthly

visits

were completed during September 2020 and July 2021 ▪ Parent/guardian consultations were held

with

all

students

the

programme ▪ On average, at least two objectives were met for each participant ▪ The rates of attainment of individual social plans for females and males were 73% and 75% respectively ▪ Whilst the remaining 25% of the targeted objectives are on-going, approximately 15% of them involve situational changes outside of the scope of our programme (e.g, housing) rendering these objectives

▪ Sessions were delivered in small, face-to-face groups at Clan Carthy High School, and were facilitated by Pastor Jayson Downer of Men of God Against Violence and Abuse (MoGAVA) ▪ 5 monthly sessions were held between January and May 2021 ▪ The sessions focused on goal- setting for the year (academic and behavioural), how to treat the opposite sex, substance abuse, and conflict resolution Girls’ Group ▪ Sessions were also delivered in small, face-to-face groups at Clan Carthy High School, and were facilitated by Kimberly Whilby-McLaughlin, founder of Go Girl 365, a foundation that creates safe spaces and a fun learning environment for girls to build life skills ▪ 5 monthly sessions were held between January and May 2021 ▪ The sessions focused on vision board and goal- setting, gender roles and norms, the importance of friendships and the importance of trust, and working in teams

unattainable.

LCF SSI Schooling Support Programme Year 2 Report 2020-2021

Gender Mentorship Programme Feedback BOYS

▪ strongly agreed that they enjoyed attending the sessions ▪ strongly agreed that they have learnt more about themselves since being in the programme ▪ agreed that they ‘have tried their best to understand others' since being in the programme

GIRLS

▪ felt better about themselves since being a part of the programme ▪ agreed that they are now better able to handle conflicts ▪ reported that they found it easy to talk with their mentors about any issues

LCF SSI Schooling Support Programme Year 2 Report 2020-2021

Parenting Workshop Report ▪ In collaboration with the Jamaican Diaspora Behaviour Health Taskforce, the LCF conducted a series of Virtual Parenting workshops for the parents and guardians of our students ▪ Between November 2020 and June 2021, 8 sessions were held; one session was held in-person ▪ The sessions focused on self-care, and the parent/child relationship, with an average of 10-12 parents in attendance ▪ Most parents had positive feedback about the programme, only approximately 25% of the respondents reported they felt forced to attend the sessions.

LCF SSI Schooling Support Programme Year 2 Report 2020-2021

Key Results To Date

AT-RISK STUDENTS actively engaged in effective character and social development programmes

GRADE ATTAINMENT

in Literacy has increased by an average of 2 grade levels (4 to 6) amongst our scholarship participants (Target Group A)

Nutritional Support: Care Packages Report Care package distribution was expanded to include beneficiaries of the Christ Church, Vineyard Town Youth and Community Outreach Programme (YCOP) who had been active participants up until the start of the pandemic. YCOP is a character and social development programme delivered by members of Christ Church, Vineyard Town aimed at empowering vulnerable youths who reside in Mountain View and its surrounding communities.

220

CARE PACKAGES

distributed amongst 40 households of students in the SSI Schooling Programme and the YCOP between Sept 2020 and Aug 2021

LCF SSI Schooling Support Programme Year 2 Report 2020-2021

Since our inception in 2019, our Schooling Support Programme has benefitted

>150 926 449

vulnerable students

Persons trained in Child Trafficking Awareness

Between 2019-2021 we have provided Care Packages to students and their households under the SSI Schooling Support Programme

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE boasted a dramatic increase from

63% 89% to

showing that our students (Target Groups A and B) now perform at or above the level of their peers

APPROXIMATELY

75%

of target deprivations and social concerns within Target Group A’s home environments have been addressed LCF SSI Schooling Support Programme Year 2 Report 2020-2021

FOR YEAR 3

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

9 new, grade 9 students will be added to the programme

2 Activities will be blended (both virtual and face-toface)

3 All face-to-face activities will be held at the Excelsior Community College, through partnership with the Mountain View Council

Mentorship and Parenting sessions will be held twice monthly

We give thanks to our LASCO family, our many partners, donors,and other stakeholders who have helped us to help others; we look back with appreciation for your support over the course of the year and we are truly grateful.

A virtual study group and an annual community service project will be introduced

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LCF SSI Schooling Support Programme Year 2 Report 2020-2021

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LCF SSI Schooling Support Programme Year 2 Report 2020-2021

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LCF SSI Schooling Support Programme Year 2 Report 2020-2021