Success For Each Child & Eliminate the Opportunity Gap by Leading with Racial Equity

Program Goals

Goals and Objectives  

Federal Way’s 21st CCLC program established goals and objectives that carried across all five years of programming, as follows:  

  • Serve a meaningful number of students at each site with a meaningful intensity of service 
    • Enroll 120 students  
    • At least 75% will attend at least 30 days (known as regular attending students) 
    • 60% of regular attending students will attend 60 or more days by the end of the school year  
       
  • Increase the knowledge and skills of families about how to support the education of their children 
    • Adult family members of 80% of regular attendees will attend at least one family event each year  
    • At least 80% of participating families will agree or strongly agree that they learned new information that will be helpful to their child or family 
    • At least 80% of participating families will agree or strongly agree that they plan to use at least one of the ideas learned 
       
  • Increase the number of community partners who collaborate with project  
    • The project will collaborate with at least three community partners in the first year of operation 
    • The project will add at least one new partner in each subsequent year of the project 
       
  • Increase student achievement in reading and math  
    • At least 50% of regular attendees will increase achievement in reading/language arts from fall to spring  
    • At least 50% of regular attendees will increase achievement in mathematics from fall to spring  
       
  • Improve academic and learning behaviors in the classroom 
    • At least 70% of regular attendees will improve on turning in their homework on time, completing homework to the teachers’ satisfaction, and class participation  
    • At least 70% of regular attendees will improve on coming to school motivated to learn, behaving well in class, and getting along well with others  
    • At least 90% of regular attendees will have a daily school day attendance rate of 90% or greater by the end of the school year as assessed by school attendance records 
       
  • Increase ratings on the Youth Program Quality Assessment each year 
    • Ratings on the dimensions of interaction and engagement by the local evaluators will increase each year of the project with the first year serving as a baseline 
    • Ratings on the dimensions of interaction and engagement by the local evaluators will equal or better the average ratings of other programs in the state by the last year of the project 

In addition to these long-term goals and objectives, each site also identified priorities as part of their annual planning process in Fall of the 2019-20 (Year 3), 2020-21 (Year 4) and 2021-22 (Year 5) school years.   Amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, priorities in 2021-22 included: 

  • Support equitable access to resources and services for students and families 
  • Respond to student and family needs during COVID-19 pandemic, including related to social-emotional support