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Four Locations: Arlington Middle School, Justina Elementary School, Northshore Elementary School and St. Claire Evans Academy.

• Program Manager: Karen Boriss
   

• Number of Staff:  Full Time: 4, Part-time: 64
   

• Number of Volunteers: 55
   

• Referral Process: Letters to parents, banners and flyers at school, PTA, word of mouth.
   

• Program Goal: to increase the number of students promoted to the next grade level at the end of the year; to improve students achievement scores in reading and math; to provide activities to help children build assets and competencies through positive youth development
    

• Total Number Served in four locations: 951

83% of TEAM UP elementary students in 2004-2005 were academically challenged, which means that they scored below Level 3 on FCAT-Reading, FCAT-Math, or both FCAT-Reading and Math in 2003-2004.

   TEAM UP provides after school educational, social and positive youth development activities Monday through Friday. Activities include academic skill, sports, cultural awareness, arts instruction, and community service. A healthy snack, dinner and transportation are provided each day.

Bridge TEAM UP Outcomes: TEAM UP students have better daily attendance rates than students who do not attend TEAM UP. TEAM UP 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students scoring at Levels 3, 4, and 5 on FCAT made better grades in reading and math than other students at those levels in their schools  90% of TEAM UP elementary school students were promoted (average school promotional rate is 86%)   98% of students regularly attending TEAM UP reported positive thoughts about the program and going to school.

Arlington Middle School

Highlights:

• Art students hand made a patchwork quilt and entered it into a competition to raise money for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.

Justina Elementary School

Highlights:

• The TEAM UP drill team competed in the Kids Amateur Night at The Ritz and LaVilla Theatre in downtown Jacksonville.
   

• The Arlington YMCA and the Jacksonvillee University interns held a reading rally for all TEAM UP students to encourage students to read durimg their free time and to help with basic development skills.

Northshore Elementary School

Highlights:

• The Philadelphia Eagles Book Mobile came to the school with the "Bookman" to read to all of the children and each child received a new book to take home and read.
   

• Field trips were taken to go skating and bowling.

Special Success Story:

Large numbers of Northshore students responded to the request for entries to the Jacksonville Children's Commission Black History Artist Contest. After looking over all the entries, the staff had to pick just three artists to submit.

One of the Northshore artists was third grader JaVaughn. Before the contest, JaVaughn had gotten in trouble and was close to being expelled.To everyone's delight, JaVaughn won the contest. He got recognition in the newspaper and won a savings bond. In addition, his art work was hung in the atrium of City Hall.

As a result of this recognition and the support of The Bridge staff, JaVaughn hs improved in his grades and behavior and is maintaining a B average this year in school.

St. Claire Evans Academy

Highlights

• Every month birthdays were celebrated with help from Bridge volunteers.

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