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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Indian River County PASSPORT TO EARLY LITERACY Grant: $ 85,000 Funds Used: $76,703 (unable to claim salaries for two months due to receiving PPP funds) Total Children Served: 108 (one-on-one school year) and 32 family members Total Adults Served: 66 Focus Area: Early Childhood Education and Building Parent Capacity Taxonomy Number: PH1800.800 Program Description: This community-based program provides one-on-one mentoring and tutoring focusing on emergent literacy skills and social/emotional development of VPK children whose family member(s) are living in poverty. It is also building parent capacity through monthly parent training and four experiential community trips. Monitoring: This program hosted 12 of the scheduled family literacy nights and 3 of the 4 planned experiential trips. At these events, seventy-one unduplicated children attended with ninety-eight family members (66 parents/aunts/grandparents and 32 siblings/child cousins). We have enrolled 108 students in the 2019-2020 school year. Due to COVID-19, the last scheduled family literacy nights and experiential trip were cancelled. GOALS/OUTCOMES REPORT Outcome #1: 80% of youth who have participated in VPK Mentoring for five months or more, will meet or exceed expectations on the phonological awareness, print knowledge and oral language/vocabulary domains of the Florida VPK Assessment by June 2020. Q1- Assessment Period 1: Based on the Assessment Period 1 data, students showed the following baselines: 86 of the 97 students were tested; 11 students were not tested at parent requests. Print Knowledge: 62 of 86 or 72% were below expectations Phonological Awareness: 38 of 86 or 44% were below expectations Oral Language: 39 of 86 or 45% were below expectations Math: 63 of 86 or 73% were below expectations Average: 58% below expectations for the four domains Q2- Assessment Period 2: Based on the Assessment Period 2 (mid -year) data, all students have moved in at least one domain: 102 of the 108 students were tested; 6 students were either not tested at parent requests or moved to a different school. Print Knowledge: 32 of 102 or 31% were still below expectations Phonological Awareness: 25 of 102 or 25% were still below expectations Oral Language: 12/102 or 12% were still below expectations Math: 15 of 102 or 15% were still below expectations 93