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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Indian River County <br />Passport to Early Literacy <br />Grant amount: $85,000.00 <br />Funds used: $72,204.81 <br />Total children served: 166 including 15 summer VPK (23 students being tutored one-on-one on <br />a daily basis in the 2021-2022 school year) <br />Total adults served: 11 (2021-2022 school year) <br />Focus Area: Early Childhood Development; Building Parent Capacity <br />Program Description: This community-based program provides one-on-one mentoring and <br />tutoring focusing on emergent literacy skills and social/emotional development of VPK children <br />whose family member(s) are living in poverty. It is also building parent/guardian capacity <br />through monthly family training and four experiential community trips. <br />2021-2022 Monitoring: BBBS Reads distributed six book bags to five schools for the 2021-2022 <br />school year. Bags were complete with a book (or two) for students to build their at home <br />libraries, activities for families to do together and tip sheets for parents/guardians to work with <br />their students on building literacy. BBBS Reads Members served at Bridges Early Learning <br />Center and saw 23 VPK students for one-on-one tutoring. Due to COVID-19, the majority of <br />family training and experiential community trips were postponed. BBBS Reads partnered with <br />the Riverside Children's theater and had a total of 45 attendees. BBBS Reads members <br />continued to serve at Bridges Early Learning Center for the summer and saw 15 PK3/VPK <br />students. The BBBS Reads program has currently enrolled 82 students for the 2022-2023 school <br />year and will add two more schools by the end of October. BBBS Reads has hosted one family <br />experiential trip so far in the 2022-2023 school year. VPK students and their families were <br />invited to McKee Botanical Gardens. <br />Outcome #1: 80% of youth who have participated in VPK Mentoring for five months or <br />more, will meet or exceed expectations on the phonological awareness, print knowledge <br />and oral language/vocabulary domains of the Florida VPK Assessment by June, 2022. <br />Q1 Progress: Baseline data will be collected and available for Q2. <br />Q2 Progress: Based on the Assessment Period 1 data, students showed the following baselines: <br />20 of 23 students were tested; 3 students were not tested at parent/guardian requests. <br />• Print Knowledge: 16 students or 80% of students were below expectations <br />• Phonological Awareness: 14 students or 70% of students were below expectations <br />• Oral Language: 10 students or 50% of students were below expectations <br />• Math: 17 students or 85% of students were below expectations <br />Average: 71 % of students are below expectations for the four domains. <br />Q3 Progress: Final Assessment Period Data (AP3) was collected and all students have moved in <br />at least one domain. 20 of 23 students were tested; 3 students were not tested at <br />parent/guardian requests. <br />120 <br />