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ORGANIZATION: FRONTLINE FOR KIDSIGYAC ` PROGRAM: FRONTLINE/GYAC TEEN PROGRAM FUNDER: CHILDREN 'S SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE B. PROGRAM NEED STATEMENT (Entire Section B not to exceed one page) 1. a) What is the unacceptable condition requiring change? b) Who has the need? c) Where do they live? d) Provide local, state, or national trend data, with reference source, that corroborates that this is an area of need. The unacceptable conditions requiring change are chronic academic failure, poor neighborhood attachment, low self-esteem, and poor decision making of the Indian River County youth. In Bell South Foundation' s Gaining Group report (www.bellsouthfoundation.ore), students from lower income families, racial minority groups and immigrant families continue to lag behind their peers, with limited access to technology. And, instead of preparing our high school student to meet the demands of our rapidity changing society and economy, education reform has all but bypassed the high school level. "Instead, uninspiring curriculum fails to engage students achievement, gaps increasing among students groups, and attenuated connections between high schools and the world beyond add up to serious disadvantages for students in pursing post secondary education and a skills gap for businesses that seek to hire them. For many, especially students of color and certain ethnic groups, chances of college success are limited by their personal experience, compounded by a lack of technological resources and skills . . . The deficits and obstacles these students encounter inhibit our society from developing the well-trained flexible, stable workers that the economy needs and the informed, active citizens our democracy requires." Children residing in Indian River County will participate in this program. The GYAC ' s service patterns for youth during the 2004-2005 school year are as follows : City Percentage of Zip code Participants Gifford 64% 32967 Sebastian 29% 32948,32958,32960,32961932962,32963,32966 Wabasso 2% 32970 2. a) Identify similar programs that are currently serving the needs of your targeted population; b) Explain how these existing programs are under-serving the targeted population of your program. Programs servicing the targeted population are: Boys & Girls Clubs, St. Peters Missionary Baptist Church, and the Daisy Hope Center. Frontline/GYAC is concerned with the development of the "whole" child and therefore seeks to comprehensively "wrap itself' around the participants. Frontline/GYA is a methodology based program that assesses the needs of each participant and then prepares a Personal Success Plan for each participant. The Personal Success Plan will help to evaluate strength, weakness, resources and barriers to success, then with the help of the participant' s counselor, a Personal Success Plan is developed which identifies goals and a specific plan of activities for success. Participants will be involved in multiple activities to learn new skills and reinforce strategies that will foster success. Frontline/GYAC program's goal is to raise the literacy level of some and provide remediation to other participants. 5