Child evaluations completed at enrollment and at a minimum of quarterly will monitor progress. 30 volunteers will be recruited to assist with the summer program. One hundred participants will have an increased sense of safety and increased ownership of the park as measured by a post evaluation at the end of camp. Other Human Needs AmeriCorps members offer assistance to battered women and children living in rural communities across Iowa. These members serve at approximately 17 sites statewide to provide women with crisis intervention, counseling, assistance with protective orders, shelter and medical care.
Members also enable the program to open and maintain field offices in underserved areas.
Four Promise Fellows will continue the Earth Year 2000 initiative. They will collectively develop four new program models on environment conversation education for sixth graders during the year. A similar model will be developed for children with disabilities. Fellows will also provide assistance to 25 schools by assisting them in the development and implementation of waste reduction and recycling programs. Fellows will also focus on another Iowa state initiative.