Fifty-one FGP volunteers will serve under the grant year 2020-2023

Thirty-one volunteers will be placed at thirteen volunteer stations for a minimum of fifteen hours per week during the school year & assigned to four at risk students each, who has been identified by their teacher. These volunteers will conduct daily teacher approved activities that focus on helping kindergarten through grade twelve students reach their individualized, teacher-identified academic goals. Sixteen volunteers will be placed in six preschool locations & two head starts and will volunteer a minimum of fifteen hours per week over twelve months. These volunteers will each be assigned four at risk students. Their goal will be to improve pre-literacy skills working towards school readiness. Four volunteers will be assigned to two after school programs and two special need program volunteer stations for a minimum of fifteen hours per week over twelve months with at risk students focusing on academic engagement or social-emotional skills. The primary focus of this project is education for preschool through to grade twelve. At the end of the three year grant the foster grandparent program under the national performance measures education school readiness for preschoolers and improved academic performance for kindergarten to grade twelve, volunteers will have a) exposed the students to literacy activities b) encouraged the youth to remain in school to graduate & c) helped students achieve improvement in school readiness, reading and math skills, behavior and attitude. These goals will give the students a literacy foundation to graduate to the next grade level each year. Coastline elderly services, INC. Of new bedford, MA is the sponsoring agency applying for the grant renewal (year 1 of 3) of the senior corps grant for the foster grandparent program. The cncs federal investment of $328,419 for fifty-one volunteer service years will be supplemented by $34,230 non-federal funding. Volunteers will be assigned to twenty-five stations in the dartmouth, fairhaven, new bedford, wareham, and plymouth towns.