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<br />1. Program Detailk, Tasks, Duration, and Deliverables
<br />Funds from the Revive: Santa Ana Youth Programs grant opportunity will develop a hands-on outdoor classroom for KidWorks' preschool program.
<br />KidWorks' preschool serves low-income families in central Santa Ana with 40.48 spots for children each school year. The final number of children
<br />served depends on state licensing regulations for current COVID precautions.
<br />KidWorks' preschool students receive daily instruction during the week and learn through the exploration of the preschool's enriched environment.
<br />This includes creating art, singing, dancing, listening to stories, doing science experiments, and various scaffolding activities that challenge students
<br />according to their needs. They leam numbers, letters, alphabet sounds, colors, and shapes. Because KidWorks predominately serves Spanish-speaking
<br />families, Kid Works' preschool program begins the school year with the teachers primarily speaking in Spanish. Teachers gradually introduce English
<br />language instruction. throughout the course so that by the end of school year most of the day is spent using only English.
<br />The requested grant funding will transform KidWorks' 15-year-old old preschool playground into an open-ended outdoor nature -based space filled
<br />with large and small natural building materiels to spark creativity. The outdoor classroom will have an organic garden, an art and reading area,
<br />bridges, swings, and a "mud kitchen." This natural environment will be a place for children to experience the joy of being outdoors while gaining a
<br />positive self-image and increasing skills through exploration, engineering, and working together.
<br />The preschool's primary goal is a successful transition from preschool to kindergarten for every child and family. Children begin this transition on the
<br />first day of preschool, and once they enter kindergarten, they continue to receive support from KidWorks through elementary, junior high, high school
<br />and into their college experience. KidWorks believes that every child should be able to access high quality early education which increases academic
<br />success and graduation rates, and reduces achievement gaps.
<br />During the COVID-19 Pandemic, California designated early child-care and education as essential services, Therefore, KidWorks was able to partially
<br />re -open its. Preschool on September 3, 2020. The preschool begun under a hybrid model with a combination of small in -class teaming, virtual lessons,
<br />and supplemental take-home teaming kits and activities.
<br />In ardor for preschool to open in compliance with all regulations, the organization had to make several immediate retrofits and facility improvements.
<br />Classroom retrofits included muchless sinks, soap dispensers, and toilets along with ploxighass dividers. Along with new policies and facilities
<br />improvement, each child has needed their own teaming supplies (not to be shared), it tablet for w4home use (during the hybrid programming), and
<br />distanced workspace requiring that additional desks and supplies be purchased. These new unanticipated costs that were not a part of the
<br />organisation's regular budget and required additional fundraising efforts.
<br />Because of the pandemic, the preschool has had to significantly limit in-porson field trips and special guests visiting the classroom (such as parents,
<br />community volunteers, and dress -up characters such as the Cat In the Flat or Clifford the Big Red Dog). Those experiences have been adjusted to a
<br />vhfua. platform, whichstill allows teachers to integrate classroom lessons into die real world. Even virtual field trips support the development of self -
<br />regulation through curiosity and initiative in learning, self-centred of feelings and bohavioL and shared use of space and material. Virtual field trips
<br />also serve as a great opportunity for preschoolers to develop language and literacy as they communicate by classifying the various objects or animals
<br />they visually encounter, including color, sive, and type.
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<br />Over the one-year grant period, KidWorks' preschool will serve between 40 and 48 children, ages 3 to 4 years old. Expected counties of the project
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<br />I) KidWoks will develop a new outdoor classroom for the preschool.
<br />2) At least 90% ofeligible students will promote from preschool ready for Kindergarten.
<br />3) 100% of preschool students will have developmental screenings completed and those in need of follow-up services will be given a. referral.
<br />4) By the end ofthe school year, at least 75% of 3-year-old students will score "Exploring: later" or "Building: earlier" and 4-yearvold students will
<br />score "BuildingAntegrating" in all DRDP Domains.
<br />5) By the end of the school year, at least 70% of the preschool children will develop leadership skills at a Buildingjlategiaming level in the DRDP.
<br />6) At least 90% of prosehoolstudents will have useful roles and responsibilities in the classroom.
<br />7) At least 70% of preschool students will consistently exhibit empathy, generosity, and tolerance toward others In the classroom.
<br />2. Target population
<br />KidWorks serves families living in poverty and challenged neighborhoods of control Santa Ana. Among US cities, Santa Ana is the 4th most densely
<br />populated city and ranks 5th in having the highest level of rent burden (64%of households spend more than 30%of their income on housing according
<br />to An Equity Profile of Orange County, 2019).
<br />The per capita income in the census tract (748.02) of the Dan Donahue Center is $14,652. This is about two-thirds of the amount in Santa Ana:
<br />($20,867) and about one-third of the amount in Orange County: ($41,514). Furthermore, because of the high levels of rent burden on families in Santa
<br />Ana, it is common for two to three families to live in one household so that they can afford even it small apartment. With regard to educational
<br />attainment, 50,6% of families have a parent who graduated from high school and 11.I%have obtained at least a Bachelor's degree (ACS, 2019).
<br />With regard to race and ethnicity, 99% of families served by KidWorks are Latino and 1%of families are Asian, which is representative of the overall
<br />racial and ethnic demographics in the service area.
<br />3. Urmet Need
<br />According to First Five Orange County's 2020 Landscape Analysis, there am 79,313 preschool -age children in Orange County, with only 55,361. spots
<br />In licensed child care or preschool setting. This means that 30% of preschool age children have no place to go. Locally, the Early Development Index
<br />reveals that over half of Santa Ana's children (580/9) were not ready for kindergarten upon entry. When children are starting kindergarten and they are
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