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Applicant Organization: Kau Learning Center for Hawaii County P&R RFP Number: Date Prepared: December 30, 1997 III. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OVERALL GOAL OF KOKUA KA'U PROJECT: REDUCE JUVENILE DELINQUENCY WHILE ENHANCING THE SKILLS THAT ARE NECESSARY TO LIVE SUCCESSFULLY IN TODAY'S WORLD The goal of this program is to reduce incidents of juvenile delinquency in the Ka'u District. The priority risk factors are Extreme Economic Deprivation and,4eademic Failure beginning in Late Elernentar, School. The objectives of this grant proposal are: • to increase youth participation in constructive skill-building activities; • improve school behavior and performance. • increase parental involvement in the lives the young people The Ka' u Council believes that by engaging the youth and their families in interesting and worthwhile educational projects, that the goal of reducing juvenile delinquency will logically follow. It's better for youth to be in an atmosphere of constructive engagement than at loose ends, and the in anv community are children with nothing to do. Since one of the desirable outcomes is to engage the youth in productive activities, then just by periodically measuring the participation in the program, we will be able to verify the attractiveness of our projects to the youth. Our objective in this respect will be increasing participation Outcomes and Outcome Indicators 1. The number of youth participating in constructive, skill building activities will be increased. The project's goal will be to increase the number of youth participants by 20% per year, using the participation rate in the fast full year of program operation as a baseline. 2. The number of parents participating in program activities with their children will be increased by 20% per year. using the participation rate in the first full year of program operation as a baseline. 3. Youth participants will improve their behavior at school and basic academic skills. a. The number of school offenses by Kokua Ka' u participants in both the middle and high schools served by the reverse mentoring program will be reduced by 20% per year, for each year in which the program operates. A baseline figure will be obtained for the 1997-8 school year; subse- quent years will be compared to this baseline. Participating schools will track the students. b. 80% of youth regularly participating in reverse mentoring activities during each academic year will increase their basic academic skills in the areas of reading, writing, and math as measured by a pre and post-test SkillsBank4. The computer software, Skifls13ank4 and LearningPlus, include the means to diagnose the student's performance at the start, as well as providing progressive performance reports. 9