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The Primary Focus for the Suburban Cook, Lake/mchenry County Foster Grandparent Program Will Be Elementary Education Focusing on Literacy. to Meet Our Objective of 145 Unduplicated Volunteers Our Program Will Volunteer in 31 Elementary Schools, Exceptional Needs Centers and Head-start Centers Throughout Suburban Cook, Lake & Mchenry Counties. Our Program Work Plans Will Focus on Supporting Growth in Reading and Math in the Elementary Education Area. for Special Needs We Will Focus on Whatever Needs They Have That We Can Help Meet (i.e Life Skills, School Work) and for Head-start We Will Focus on School Preparedness Which Includes Letter Recognition, Shapes, Colors & Numbers. These Counties Combined Will Have 121 Active Volunteers Working One on One With Identified Children on Reading & Math Skills to Improve Comprehension, Grades and Standardized Test Scores. the After School Matters Initiative Provided the Extra Support & Training That Our Volunteers Needed to Be Prepared to Interact With Assigned Students as New Technology and Techniques Were Being Introduced in the Classrooms. This Support Has Been Vital to Our Program as It Keeps Our Volunteers in Touch With Current Approaches and Training Without Creating Additional Expenses to Our Already Stretched Budget. in the Centers Where We Are Present We Will Continue to Be Impactful, Necessary and Very Supportive of the Roughly 135 Children in the State Funded and Private Head-start Programs in Our Service Area. a Total of 24 Unduplicated Foster Grandparents Will Serve in Head-start Programs Throughout Our Service Areas Helping Prepare Kids Age 0-5 Years Age for the Next Level of Progression by Helping Them With Their Social & Developmental Skills. These Needs Are Paramount and On-going in the Communities Where Our Program Serves. We Will Use Surveys, School District Test Scores to Monitor the Impact the Volunteer Has on Each Child They Service. the Anticipated Outcome for Our Tutoring/literacy Performance Measure Will Be: an Increased Number of Students Matched With a Foster Grandparent Will Demonstrate Improved Reading Skills and Test Scores. the Anticipated Outcome for the Head-start Performance Measure Will Be: Children Who Worked One-on-one With a Foster Grandparent Will Be Developmentally Prepared Prepared to Enter Kindergarten or the Next Level of the Head-start Program. the Federal Funding Level for This Effort Will Be $649,293 and the Non-federal Level Roughly $166,640.