Valley Interfaith Community Resource Center
420 W. Wyoming Avenue
Lockland, OH 45215
Back to School
Grant Application:
The program partners with the Lockland City School District, Elmwood Place, and Lincoln Heights Elementary schools to help ensure that each student has the essential school supplies to make the first day of school successful and stress-free. These districts students typically are in the lowest economic brackets in the area. With downward economic trends - the strain on families is getting more and more difficult. This partnership ensures that the first day of school does not create more burdens on over-burden families and thereby creates potential for a better learning environment.
Goals:
Goal 1: Provide necessary back to school supplies to underserved children in the Millcreek Valley Neighborhoods of Hamilton County.
a. Complete with Backpack and all necessary supplies required for their grade level.
Goal 2: Distribute to a minimum of 1100 students.
a. Lockland School District Pre-K thru 12th Grades
b. Lincoln Heights Elementary School Pre-K thru 5th Grades
c. Hartwell Elementary K thru 6th Grades
d. Elmwood Place Elementary K thru 5th Grades.
Goal 3. Distribute Financial Literacy Book to students 6th grade and above.
a. Provide copy of MONEY MATTERS: IT'S EITHER WORKING FOR YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE in each back pack.
Grant Evaluation Report:
This program would not have been successful without the tremendous and continued support of the Dater Foundation. Overall, we were able to adapt and deal with increasing gas, inflation, supply chain issues and much more and still obtained results above expectations. Soem of this is due in part to our great partnership and working relationship with the school districts we serve.
Results:
1,288 Total Served Students with Back Pack and Supplies in the Lockland, Lincoln Heights, St. Bernard and Elmwood Place Schools.
145 Total Served Students in the Hartwell Elementary School system completed via a partnership with local Barber Shop. (We ended working directly weith this school as the
Principal was never responsive and on the rare occassion that he was, he was never timely.
900 Total Junior/Senior High School Students at Mt. Healthy School System provided with new branded water bottles due to safety protocols eliminating fountain usage due
to COVID protocols.
618 Total Served Students in Woodlawn Elementary with Back Pack and Supplies.
5 Schools impacting over 2,500 students provided with additional school supplies that included: Notebook paper, Refil Paper Sheets, Composite Books, Pencils, Pens, Markers, Erasers, Kleenex boxes and disinfectant so that neither Teachers nor their students would need to pay for such items out of pocket and thereby allowing the students who are mostly impoverished, to focus on their schooling and not the stress of needs.
400 MONEY MATTERS: ITS EITHER WORKING FOR YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE workbooks provided to 6th thru 12th graders to introduce simple financial literacy steps.
Website:
http://www.vicrc.org Amount: $40,000
Date: April 2022
