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September 20, 2017

Community Leadership Council Meeting

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ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION

Post- Secondary Completion

Stronger Public Schools

Comprehensive Supports

Scholarships

Say Yes Buffalo Model

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Say Yes Funding Stakeholders

National Foundations Private Donors Public & Private Entities

Administrative operations and staffing After School programming Summer Camps In-School Staff (Family Support Specialists) College Scholarships Technical and financial support for audits, research and WorkOuts Legal Clinics Physical & Mental Health Clinics

250+ individuals, families, businesses and organizations Say Yes Higher Education Compact Colleges & Universities

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Internships Mentoring Community Schools Boys & Men of Color Early Childhood

Community Leadership Council Co-Chairs

The Hon. Byron Brown Mayor City of Buffalo Alphonso O’Neil-White Chair Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship Maria Whyte Deputy Erie County Executive

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• Dr. Barbara Seals-

Nevergold President Buffalo Board of Education

• Dr. Catherine Collins

Regent NYSED Board Regents Tim Kennedy Senator New York State Senate Crystal Peoples-Stokes Assemblywoman New York State Assembly

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Agenda

• 1. Welcome
• 2. Superintendent's Update
• 3. Program Updates
• Summer Camps
• Mobile Health Units
• School-based Preventive

Services

• 4. Q&A
• 5. Closing Remarks

Superintendent’s Update

• Dr. Kriner Cash

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Say Yes Program Updates

David Rust, Executive Director, Say Yes Buffalo

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Grad Gala Recap

Excelsior Update

• Goal: take advantage of this new benefit for students

while remaining true to our last dollar status/commitment to donors

• Executive Committee has been meeting weekly on

financial modeling, impact and potential changes

• Comprehensive analysis indicates maximum of 18% of

Say Yes Scholars could be eligible for Excelsior

• Initial pro forma shows impact could decrease our overall

endowment fundraising goal from $112 million to $98 million; follow up pro forma to take place in 4 years once impact can be quantified

• Scholarship Board reviewing potential changes to wording
• f scholarship guidelines to ensure last dollar status
• Donors will receive full update with additional information
• nce board makes final decision

K-6 Summer Camps

• Dan Cross-Viola, Supervisor for

Extended Learning Time, Say Yes Buffalo

• Vickie Gillison, First Lady & Summer

Camp Director, Mount Olive Baptist Church

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Summer Camps

• Community-based programs for K-6:
• 6-week half-day programs; some sites offer

full-day in partnership with Erie County

• Focus on grade level academics &

enrichment (health & well being, leadership, civic engagement, recreational activities)

• Incorporate Mayor’s Summer Reading

Challenge

• Provide breakfast and lunch

Summer Camps

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2017 Recap:

• 1,750 students enrolled
• 41 locations around the city

hosted by 28 religious and community organizations

• 27/41 locations offered

extended full-day programming in partnership with Erie County

• All sites participated in National

Summer Learning Day with a field trip to Canalside July 12

• BPS & Say Yes conducted site

visits to strengthen quality

• BPS reviewing student

participation’s impact on DIBELS

Summer Camp Providers & Locations

• The Belle Center
• Berea Church of God in Christ

dba Parker Academy

• Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo
• Boys & Girls Clubs of the

Northtowns

• CRUCIAL Community Center
• BestSelf Behavioral Health
• Cold Spring Bible Chapel
• Community Action Organization
• Emmanuel Temple Church
• Hasek’s Heroes
• Matt Urban Center
• Metro Community Development

Corporation

• Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist

Church

• Mt. Olive Baptist Church
• Native American Community

Services

• New Beginning Church of God
• New Covenant United Church of

Christ

• New Hope Community Center
• Police Athletic League of Buffalo
• Resurrection Village
• Somali Bantu Community

Organization of Buffalo

• Thankful Missionary Baptist

Church

• True Community Development

Corporation

• Tru-Way Community Center
• University District Community

Development Association

• YMCA Buffalo Niagara
• YWCA Western New York
• The Wellness Institute/Youth

Advantage

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Spotlight: Mount Olive

Mobile Health Units

• Dr. Gale Burstein, Commissioner, Erie

County Department of Health

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Mobile Health Units

• Task Force comprised of school district, funders,

government agencies, providers and Say Yes have been working for 3+ years to bring to fruition

• First-of-its-kind primary health care delivery effort in New

York State

• Mobile units allow ability to provide health care services

to students at schools that don’t already have a school- based health center

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Mobile Health Units

• Designated providers:
• Community Health Center of Buffalo
• Planned Parenthood of Central & Western New York
• Neighborhood Health Center
• Patients must register as a provider’s patient and list that

provider as their Primary Care Physician with their insurance

• Enrollment support provided to students/families without

health coverage

• In partnership with BPS, Kaleida’s school-based nurses

coordinate appointments; Community School’s Navigators assist with escorting students to/from appointments

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Mobile Health Units

Schools where services are/will be available 2017-2018: Types of services provided:

• Immunizations
• Physicals
• Sick visits
• New patient & follow up

appointments

• Nurse visits
• Sexual health & family planning
• PS 204 Lafayette HS
• PS South Park HS
• PS 208 Riverside HS
• PS 72 Lorraine Academy
• PS 45 International School
• PS 305 McKinley HS
• PS 309 East HS
• PS 301 Burgard HS
• PS 37 Futures Academy
• PS 187 Performing Arts

School-based Preventive Services Program

• Dr. Al Dirschberger,

Commissioner, Erie County Dept.

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• Tereka Baltimore, Family

Support Specialist, Say Yes Buffalo

• Quentin Wright, student, Burgard

High School

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• Embeds County Services

into all K-12 public school buildings

• Direct service to students

& families at risk for child welfare/ juvenile justice

• Low school attendance is

primary referral

• Participants’ attendance

increased average 5% last year

School-based Preventive Services Program

• 2,700 children and their families

served during past school year

• Helped to start Fatherhood

Connection (avg 16 men/week)

• Customer Satisfaction Survey:

ü 100% of families rate relationship with FSS as Very Good or Excellent ü 100% feel respected, listened and like they had input to during participation in program ü 100% would recommend the program to friends and family

School-based Preventive Services Program

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School-based Preventive Services Program

• New YES Program piloted at

Burgard, Riverside and Academy High Schools to better reach HS students

• Student-centered approach

uses 1:1 and group mentoring

• Focused on reaching freshmen

and sophomore students who are over-age/under-credited

• Majority of participants present

with 4 or more risk factors such as homelessness, having been exposed to trauma, failing all core classes, etc.

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School-based Preventive Services Program

YES Program Results to-date:

• 70 students enrolled April

2016 to August 2017 ü 43% increased school attendance ü 15% went from failing all core classes to passing ü 51% decreased number

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Referrals ü 39% became employed through Mayor’s Summer Youth

Q & A

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Feedback?

Please tell us what you think! Fill out the BLUE form in your packet and leave it

• n your way out.

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Questions?

Visit: www.SayYesBuffalo.org Or call: 716-247-5310

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