2016-629-E Finance - Boys & Girls Club of Eastern Piedmont - Outside Agency Performance Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:2164F437-BF9D-46A1-B13B-7740B02003DA t A - continued Provider's Outside Agency Application MAIN APPLICATION At present, the location for the Club is at the Northside Elementary School in Chapel Hill. The full time Program Director, Brittney Goldston, and two part time teachers, plus volunteers do and will carry out the program. Our Program Director, Brittney Goldston, has five years' experience with leading Boys & Girls Clubs programs. Brittney spends a minimum of 40 hours per week, all on the Chapel Hill Community Impact Program. She is building relationships in the community, working closely with the staff of Northside and teachers, and she is responsible for developing and implementing the program which is based on the long-standing Boys & Girls Clubs of America basic programs which have been enhanced over the years in order to maximize the outcomes of Academic Success, Good Character and-Citizenship,andHealthyLifestyles. We have two part-time employees, who are both teachers during the day at the Northside Elementary School. They become employees for the Chapel Hill Program as soon as the school day ends and work for our program from 2:30 - 5:30 on Monday - Thursday, the days the program is currently open. One of these part-time employees also has experience working with Boys & Girls Clubs programs through the Clubs in Raleigh. Prior experience is a bonus for the organization as well as for the members. Many of the youth we work with are high-maintenance and all the employees we have for all programs know and accept this, and in effect, thrive from the work they do because of the very nature of the clientele we serve. Brittney has been able to secure several volunteers for the program during August - December. During this time, Brittney had a high school student, an APPLES intern, a Board member and a two UNC students volunteer to work with the youth. Beginning in this past January, the volunteers assisting each week have increased as relationships have grown to include two additional groups as noted in the affiliates section of the grant. We do not lease the space at Northside. We do not have total access to the space, and are contracted to use the two classrooms we are currently in through the school and the Chapel Hill- Carrboro Schools Administration. In a recent meeting with Todd LoFrese, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, we were given permission to approach other schools, including middle schools, in the future, to expand our programs. The school administration as well as the Principal and Social Worker at Northside are excited about our program and the impact we are already having with the youth. They already would like to see us continue to expand as we have more youth wishing to be in the program than we can handle with the space being provided at Northside. We see no possibility that the need and the opportunities will decrease in the future, but instead, they will continue to grow. The $20 per school year membership fee for each child mainly covers their registration. Some families cannot afford this and the fee is paid by either the Northside PTA or by scholarship. We do not turn away youth due to the inability to pay. This fee helps us to ensure that those youth who want to come to the program actually do come. We cannot have the impact we desire if a child only attends occasionally. They need to attend at least three days a week. If after several weeks, they do not attend the minimum amount of days and it is determined there is no reasonable explanation for the lack of attending, parents are given notice that the child will lose their place in the program unless they attend as expected. If a child then continues not to attend as expected, the spot is opened up for another child on the waiting list who will attend the required days that Main Application 5/24/2016 8:59:25 a5/p5 Pag 8 f 23