Executive summary the community action foster grandparent program will have an estimate of 48 volunteers to serve youth in marion county

The activities the grandparents perform will help the children they serve become productive adults. Grandparents will focus on serving children from day care, (6 weeks) to 12TH grade, (18 years). At the end of the three-year grant, 85% of the children being served will be at or above his or her grade or age level. The cncs federal investment of $214,903 will be supplemented by $23,000 of non-federal resources. Each week 4- 5 days a week, 4-5 hours a day, seniors 55 years of age or older will travel to designated sites assigned by the director of the program to work with children who have some special or exceptional need. These seniors will help children who need help in areas of language/communication, homelessness, visually impaired, emotional or social need, literacy, abused/neglected, speech impaired, emotional and or social barriers. The foster grandparent program is sponsored by community action of greater indianapolis whose mission is to empower those we serve to become self-reliant and self-sufficient. Community action is an agency that was established in 1965 to carry out the mission of serving those who fell below a certain income guideline. IT was created as the result of the economic opportunity act of 1964. This was the poverty level which would allow those individuals to qualify for government services. Those services included assistance on electric and heating bills, help with employment, summer youth programs, head start, adult basic education, neighborhood youth programs and the foster grandparent program to name a few. Community action of greater indianapolis is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the reduction and ultimate elimination of poverty among its clients in central indiana. Each year we serve approximately 5,000 (families) households and 1,200 of them unduplicated children served by the foster grandparent program in marion county. Cagi's mission is crafted to not only give individuals a "hand out" but a "hand up" in terms of increasing their capacity to become more self-reliant and self-sufficient. Cagi started in 1965 as caap (community action against poverty) but later changed its name to community action of greater indianapolis. Community action will serve in four counties in indiana, (boone, hamilton, hendricks, and marion), serving clients who fall at or below the 150% poverty guideline for some and the 200% guideline for foster grandparents.