FAMILY SERVICE, INC
The Youth Opportunities Program (YOP), provides community-based mentoring for students at risk for dropping out of the Lawrence, Massachusetts schools. The YOP program partners with the Lawrence Public Schools to identify students who have specific risk factors and recruits them for participation in the program. Mentors (over age 21) are recruited from the community at-large to serve as role models with the mission to positively influence student?s commitment to school and pro-social activities. Over the four year grant period, 150 one-on-one mentor-mentee matches will be made. Each match will meet for a minimum of eight hours every month in a community setting. Program staff will provide monthly supervision and facilitate monthly group activities that focus on vocational training and career exploration.
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| AWARD OVERVIEW |
| Award Number |
2009-SC-B9-0003 |
Funding Agency |
Department of Justice |
| Total Award Amount |
$499,830 |
Project Location - City |
Lawrence |
| Award Date |
08/19/2009 |
Project Location - State |
MA |
| Project Status |
More than 50% Completed |
Project Location - Zip |
01840-1246
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| Jobs Reported |
1.75 |
Congressional District |
03 |
| Project Location - Country |
US |
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Recipient Information
(Grants)
| Recipient Information (Grants) |
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Recipient Name
|
FAMILY SERVICE, INC |
| Recipient DUNS Number |
055250385
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| Recipient Address |
430 N CANAL ST |
| Recipient City |
LAWRENCE |
| Recipient State |
Massachusetts |
| Recipient Zip |
01840-1281 |
| Recipient Congressional District |
03 |
| Recipient Country |
USA |
Required to Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials |
No |
Projects and Jobs Information
| Projects and Jobs Information |
| Project Title |
Youth Opportunities Mentoring Program |
| Project Status |
More than 50% Completed |
| Final Project Report Submitted |
No |
| Project Activities Description |
Mentoring |
| Quarterly Activities/Project Description |
The Youth Opportunities Program (YOP) continues to concentrate on recruitment. YOP staff as well as other mentoring programs from Family Service has developed an aggressive recruitment plan. The recruitment plan includes a mentoring PSA which will begin airing in May 2013. The PSA will run on our local Comcast television stations. It will also be shown as a movie preview in a local movie theater ?Chunkys?. YOP is also advertising on Google, Facebook and Pinterest. A billboard will also be used for recruitment beginning in June. The mentoring video continues to play on the Family Service website and on several different mentoring web-sites. The mentoring video is used to show the impact that mentoring has in the life of a young adult.
YOP staff has presented and provided information at twelve locations over this past quarter including a number of local restaurants, community colleges and local entertainment establishments.
In addition to recruitment, program staff continues to focus on the retention of the existing matches. All mentors, mentees and parents are contacted regularly to assess the current state of the match and to address any issues that have arisen. When possible, program staff works to attain free passes to community events, sports games and other fun activities. This quarter YOP has received discounted tickets to Fire and Ice and Ski Bradford.
During the past quarter, 23 potential mentors participated in four mentor trainings held on-site at Family Service. The program currently has a total of 107 matches to date with 7 in the process of being matched.
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| Jobs Created |
1.75 |
| Description of Jobs Created |
.25 FTE Program Coordinator - The Program Coordinator is in charge of overall program operations and supervision of staff.
1.5 FTE Mentoring Volunteer Coordinator Positions. Each position is in charge of recruiting, training and monitoring the volunteers associated with the Youth Opportunities Mentoring Program. |
Purchaser Information
(Grants)
| Purchaser Information |
| Contracting Office ID |
Not Reported |
| Contracting Office Name |
Not Available |
| Contracting Office Region |
Not Available |
| TAS Major Program |
15-0402 |
| Award Information |
| Award Date |
08/19/2009 |
| Award Number |
2009-SC-B9-0003 |
| Order Number |
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| Award Type |
Grants |
| Funding Agency ID |
15 |
| Funding Agency Name |
Department of Justice |
| Funding Office Name |
Not Available |
| Awarding Agency ID |
15 |
| Awarding Agency Name |
Department of Justice |
| Amount of Award |
$499,830 |
| Funds Invoiced/Received |
$423,369 |
| Expenditure Amount |
$434,843 |
| Infrastructure Expenditure Amount |
$0 |
| Infrastructure Purpose and Rationale |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Name |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Email |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Phone |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Address |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact City |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact State |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Zip |
Not Reported |
Product or Service Information
(Grants)
| Product or Service Information |
| Primary Activity Code |
P05.18 |
| Activity Description |
Mentoring |
| Sub-Awards Information |
| Sub-awards to Organizations |
0 |
| Sub-award Amounts to Organizations |
$0 |
| Sub-Awards to Individuals |
0 |
| Sub-Award Amounts to Individuals |
$0 |
| Number of Sub-awards less than $25,000/award |
0 |
| Amount of Sub-awards less than $25,000/award |
$0 |
| Number of payments to vendors greater than $25,000 |
0 |
| Total Amount of payments to vendors greater than $25,000/award |
$0 |
| Number of payments to vendors less than $25,000/award |
0 |
| Total Amount of payments to vendors less than $25,000/award |
$0 |
| Location Information |
| Latitude, Longitude |
42º 42' 11",
-71º 9' 51" |
| Congressional District |
03 |
| Address 1 |
430 North Canal Street |
| Address 2 |
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| City |
Lawrence |
| County |
Essex |
| State |
MA |
| Zip |
01840-1246 |
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