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Crossover Mission, Inc. Building the Future of Crossover Mission Grant amount: $85,000 Funds used: $85,000 Total children served: 86 unduplicated children Cost per child: $988 Focus Area: Quality Remediation and Enrichment Program; Programs that Address Risky Youth Behavior Program Description: Crossover Mission helps youth in Indian River County who need us most, boys and girls as well as young adults, ages 9-22, through a program of year-round basketball and one-to-one academic and life -skills mentoring. Year -Round Programming: Since the start of the 2021-2022 school year, Crossover's student membership has climbed to 86, an increase of 32%. Sixty-six trained volunteer mentors (double the number since the beginning of last school year) support our academic program staff. Crossover provides transportation from fifteen different Indian River County schools during the school year. Crossover's 2022 Summer Program began June 6 and ran continuously for ten weeks. It was delivered four days a week (Monday -Thursday) and 160 regular program hours for 56 Indian River County student athletes was organized. In order to mitigate summer learning loss and gain ground when feasible, the summer enrichment program was put into place to ensure student athletes sustained and/or improved their math and language arts skills over the summer. Through a five-week summer remediation pilot program for 13 at -risk student athletes, 100% of student athletes demonstrated positive growth in both their math skills and English Language Arts skills. Three students improved by half a grade level (or more) in English Language Arts. This pilot program will be expanded membership -wide in Summer 2023. This summer, a five-day ACT prep course ran for 12 student athletes. One of the seniors raised her score by 5 points. The majority of the 12 students are in the first year of Crossover College Readiness and did not take the ACT test as they are freshman and sophomores creating benchmarks through practice tests. Goal 1: 90% of enrolled Crossover students will fully participate (less than 3 unexcused absences per quarter) in school -year Crossover activities. Outcome: During the 2021-2022 school year, 96% of Crossover student athletes had less than three unexcused absences. Since the start of the 2022-2023 school year, that percentage has decreased slightly to 93.9%. Crossover's academic staff individually communicates with parents and guardians each time a member has an unexcused absence and our Director of Academics and our coaches regularly communicate with families to address and overcome attendance issues. Goal 2: 85% of all Crossover middle and high school students will be eligible to try out for their school basketball teams. Academic eligibility includes greater than 2.0 GPA and no behavior referrals or school suspensions. 135