Res 2018-062/approving the recommendation of the San Marcos Commission on Children and Youth to allocate $50,285 in 2017-2018 Fiscal Year funding for 14 youth programs that contribute to implementation of the Youth Master Plan

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Priority Areasthat this program will fulfill: Our autism summer camp program will fulfill the SMCCY reframed Outcome/Goal 4: Improve the overall quality of life for San Marcos families and youthStrategies: Collaborate with SMCISD to provide over 3000 hours service to the San Marcos community to improve the quality of life for children with autism and their families. Goals for the program: We would like to expand our program to include more children with autism to attend our summer campwith scholarship support. Our request for funding is to provide 20low-income families with camp scholarships to meet family basic needs of child care during part of the summerand to purchase camp equipment. Through this camp, 20low-income and underserved San Marcos children with autism will participate in our program at no cost. Each family will receive a scholarship to defray the high cost of child care during the summerand the funds will also be used to purchase camp equipment. Twenty-five children with autism from low income familiesattend 2 weeks of camps is equivalent of 50 hours of oneonone skill-based instruction (e.g., adapted aquatic swimming, yoga, dance, and other social, communication and physical activities) for 2-week period. Parents will receive information about other community-based resources to assist children as well. More children attending our camp indicates that more counselors are needed since our camp is 1:1. Therefore, we will use funds to recruit more camp counselors to work with children 1:1 from other funding source. How will they know they met these goals: We will meet our goal by giving out twenty $100 scholarships to San Marcos children with autism to attend our camp, use funds to purchase camp equipment, and hire camp counselors to better service children with autism at 1:1 ratio. Number of clients served yearly:60Number of direct clients served ONLY in San Marcos: 45 Amount Requested: $5,000Commission on Children and Youth Recommendation: $4,000 Texas State University College Access Program –The College Access Program is a summer camp that is designedto assist underserved students better understand the process of successfully applying to college. In addition, students will learn about key differences between college and high school so that they can more readily make a successful transition. Our College Access thth Program will run June 5-8. Our services target 35 High school students who will be sophomores, juniors and seniors. We will target 20 students from SMHS and 15 from Hays. The services include the following: -Increasing knowledge about admissions requirements for HS students -Academic Achievement in College vs. HS -Writing a powerful essay to get into college -Resume Writing -College Preperation -College Life How they will measure program success: We will measure short term success by the number of students who enroll in our camp program SMCISD. We will then measure success by subsequent application to college and filling out a FAFSA form during senior year or enrollment. We will also measure short term success by a satisfaction survey of students to determine level of knowledge and information they gained by attending the camp. Priority Areas that this program will fulfill:Our proposal fulfills Priority three, Strategies 6 and 7. Strategy Six is to increase college access to 60 percent in San Marcos. Currently, according to the Texas Priority Rating System, San Marcos CISD has a direct high school to college enrollment of 38 percent. To reach the stated goal of 60 percent would require an additional 22 percent increase. This would mean an increase of 60-70 graduating seniors would need to elect to attend college on a given year. Modest increases in the rates of college attendance (5 percent) could be attained toward the goal if we increase the college going rate by 15 to 20 students in a givenyear. Achievement of this strategyis measured by looking at college going rates of THECB data.