OAKLAND HUB (OHUB) PROGRAM CASE HISTORY

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARYIn 2014, the Oakland Unified School District put out an RFP for "A+B" model summer partners to be funded with 21st Century grant funding at designated "HUB schools". Students would attend four weeks of district summer school in the morning (A) and then participate in an enrichment program in the afternoon (B). The intention of this model was to 1) reduce effects of Summer Learning Loss by providing students with a 9am-3pm program for four weeks, a total of 120 hours of enrichment per summer and 2) leverage the resources of the district and expertise of community agencies. Edventure More’s CAMP EDMO was selected as a partner based on its award-winning, experiential science, maker, tech and recreation curriculum and its embedded Social Emotional Learning activities.

CAMP EDMO received a $29,640 grant for the initial Summer 2014 program to serve 80 kids at one HUB site. In 2016, after two successful years, the program was award was raised to $112,320 in order to expand the program to serve 120 kids at three HUB school sites for five weeks. Springboard Collaborative, an intensive reading program, was added as the morning partner to replace the district summer school. In addition, Edventure More applied for, and was awarded, $50,000 by the Oakland Fund for Children & Youth to provide a sixth week of full-day CAMP EDMO for the campers at the three sites.

PROGRAMStudents who attend the A+B model sites come from some of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods of East Oakland. In Summer 2016 the host HUB schools included REACH Academy, Korematsu/Esperanza, and ACORN Brookfield Elementary. The summer program is completely free for students to attend with the majority of students being recommended for summer school. The afternoon (B) portion of the day they spend with EDMO staff being led in an abridged version of the full-day CAMP EDMO program.

9am-12pm Reading program with Springboard Collaborative12pm Lunch12:30pm EDMO Rally1pm 1st Rotation EDMO Science/Maker/Art activity2pm 2nd Rotation EDMO Recreation/SEL/Team building activity3pm EDMO Rally3:30pm Pick Up

Each week of activities relate to a theme. All the curriculum, staff training supplies and camp culture elements are identical to CAMP EDMO's fee-based programs. Oakland HUB Staff are primarily recruited from the community,host school, or neighborhood afterschool programs.

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CHALLENGESThere were a number of challenges to implementing the program at the start:• Chronic absenteeism is an ongoing year-round problem at schools sites. In our first year of camp the average daily

attendance (ADA) was only 65% of target. • There was distrust between the families and the program as many had never heard of

CAMP EDMO before. • In sites where staff were not from the school or community, there were more communication issues with parents,

difficulties with behavior and staff burnout. • Several behavior issues arose because many of the children had experienced or were experiencing trauma• Approximately 25% of all students didn’t participate well in large group activities at certain sites

SOLUTIONSWe have implemented several strategies to address the challenges of working in this community:• We outreached to afterschool organizations operating on the school sites to recruit their staff to

work at camp.• We made a concerted effort to hire bilingual staff at all levels of camp operation to better

communicate with parents• We hired a Region Manager to be the dedicated point person for the Oakland HUB sites. • We outreached to the principal and school administrators and set up monthly check-ins with our Region Managers

6 months prior to summer. • We sent staff to workshops by Be the Change Consulting on how to incorporate the best trauma-informed

practices into our programs.

RESULTSThe program has been determined a success with CAMP EDMO now going on year four of the program, tripling the number of schools and quadrupling the number of students.• The OHUB program began as one location with 80 children over 4 weeks in 2014, expanding to three locations

with 120 kids over 6 weeks with children coming from nine feeder schools for Summer 2016. • Over the first two years, attendance rates in the program increased to:

• 65% of goal in year one • 107% of goal in year two!

In 2015, Public Profit evaluators attended CAMP EDMO to evaluate the program. CAMP EDMO received a score of 4.26 out of 5. CAMP EDMO also received especially high marks on the pace and flow of the curriculum, the engagement of the campers, and the ability to teach kids new skills. High marks were also achieved for the program’s spirit and physical activity. Positive feedback has also been received from participant parents, citing their belief that CAMP EDMO’s enrichment programming supported their child’s learning in school.

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