Volleyball will be participated in from November 7th to November 22nd. We hope to convey the basic skills and rules that each youth can take with them to watch a International or Olympic event and understand what is going on. The youth will learn the FIVB(Federation Internationale de Volleyball) rules and regulations. The basic skills will include passing/bumping, setting, and hitting/spiking. Additionally, the youth will be put into a team environment and be asked to succeed in this environment.

Ultimate Frisbee can best be described as a combination of sports. There are elements of football, soccer, volleyball, and basketball. We partook in this activity from October 17th to November 6th. We tried to teach the youth the basic skills to play ultimate Frisbee anywhere. These include the two basic throws (forehand and backhand) and the basic rules.

We hope to see you during the school year or next summer!

Kiyomi Noguchi
Summer Program Manager

1. Educational and Literacy Support
2. Enrichment and Recreational Opportunities
3. Positive, Safe and Healthy Environment Program

Client Information
The Chinatown Beacon Center accepts students into the ACE/ASL Program who may need further academic assistance based on test scores, and/or additional language support. Students are also accepted into the program through parent requests and special circumstances (i.e. after school bus needs, safe place to stay during the after school hours, other siblings are accepted into the program, etc.). The ACE/ASL Programs serve students from Kindergarten to 5th grade.

The ACE/ASLP programs serves almost 400 students every day for the academic school year atfive elementary schools: Gordon J. Lau Elementary School, Jean Parker Elementary School, John Yehall Chin Elementary School, Sherman Elementary School

Funding Sources (percentage of government, private, other):
SB 1756 State Grant (ASESP After School Safety and Education Program)ASESP

Define the Program Services area:
ACE/ASLP are FREE programs for its participants. Grant funding is based on daily student attendance and is tracked through monthly attendance logs, Monthly Meal Count sheets (MMC), and Meal Production Worksheets (MPW).

The ACE and ASLP programs:

• Provide families and students a safe place and educationally-enhancing environment to be when there is no one at home
  
• consistency
  
• receive homework assistance
  
• take advantage of the after school bus transportation (shared between Spring Valley, Jean Parker and Gordon J. Lau) for students who live in the Western Addition/Mission neighborhoods

What type of activities do "clients" engage in:
The students participate in enrichment activities that incorporate the youth development model as well as provide hands-on applications to support academic learning. Activities are structured around what would best complement what they are learning during the school day as well as offer students an opportunity to engage in clubs or electives that they may either not be exposed to or participate in during the school day.

Some examples:

• Inventor Invasion (collaboration with Wild Planet Toys, Inc.)
  
• Dramarama
  
• Team Challenges
  
• Community Service Learning Projects
  
• Thrilling Thursdays (collaboration between John Yehall-Chin and Jean Parker Elementary School)
  
• Girl Scouts

How does the program engage community members:
The ACE program greatly rely on organizations, agencies and community members who are interested in working with the schools within those hours. For example, Wild Planet Toys, Inc., Girl Scouts, SambAsia and volunteers from the community who run Super readers Book Clubs.

Misc.
The Program Strengths includes:

• Ability to provide homework assistance and implement enrichment activities
  
• Maintain consistent participant base
  
• Offer administrative support

The Current Program's Challenges include:

Center programs are open to everyone and are at the hub of the Chinatown Beacon Center’s community involvement. The homework center and workshops give youth a safe place to be with their friends and learn new skills. Young people may participate in a variety of activities such as homework, cooking, hip hop dance, sports, computers, video, art, and community service projects.
Homework center is for young people in grades four and above; workshops are for those in grades six and above. The Chinatown Beacon Center welcomes all young people from throughout San Francisco.

The homework center and workshops are located at [Gordon J. Lau Elementary School]; homework center meets in the cafeteria, and workshops meet in the auditorium and go to various locations throughout the school.

Homework Center is from 3:30 – 6:00 p.m., and workshops are from 4:15 – 6:00 p.m. Participants may arrive between 3:30 – 4:15 p.m. to sign in and hang out. Programs start in the fall and end at winter break. They begin again in January and end at the end of May. Look out for the fall 2005 schedule, coming soon!

The Summer Assistant Leader in Training (SALT) Program engages high school youth who might otherwise not have the opportunity to attend summer programming. This summer the program focused on developing leadership skills in a community context. SALTs split their time between assisting a Program Leader - working with elementary and middle school youth - and attending their own workshops - which included teambuilding, leadership skills, discussion of their groups, debating, public speaking, break dancing, improvisation, and research with the Chinese Historical Society of America. The current model gives participants the unique chance to learn new skills and put them into practice the very next day.

Forms may be returned:
In person:
    Chinatown Beacon Center Administrative Office
    36 Waverly Place, Suite #1
    San Francisco, CA, 94108
By Fax:
    (415) 983-9514

The Chinatown Beacon Center summer programs provide safe, supportive, opportunity-rich spaces for young people during the summer. Summer Adventure Camp and Beacon Summer Challenge expose young people to experiences that they might not otherwise have. For example, participants go on field trips such as camping, sailing, and swimming, create digital videos, create art projects, compete in challenges, and have lots more fun. Participants are placed in groups where they make lasting friendships and show team spirit as they work toward meeting the goal of the weekly challenges.

The themes for this summer are: leadership and community. This program is offered to current K – 7 students from San Francisco and will be located at Gordon J. Lau Elementary School 950 Clay St. San Francisco.

The 2005 camp schedule is as follows:
Summer Adventure Camp
    Monday to Friday
    June 20 – August 5
    8:30am – 4:00pm
Beacon Summer Challenge
    Monday – Friday
    June 20 – August 5
    10:00am – 4:00pm

The Chinatown Beacon Center Website Workshop was developed to provide a space for young people to learn about, influence, and drive the process of rebuilding and maintaining the Chinatown Beacon Center’s online presence. The group meets for one and a half hours each week during the school year and more frequently during spring and summer breaks. Youth volunteers meet for an additional two hours each week to plan for the next session, clean up the code, and upload files.

Currently, the program is located at the Chinatown Beacon Center Administrative Office and participants use the staff’s computers while they are conducting their programs.

One aspect of the mission of the Chinatown Beacon Center is to strengthen community by unleashing the power of youth. To this end, Lunch Bunch attempts to ease any transitional anxiety that might exist for 5th graders moving on to middle school. During their lunch period, Participants (Lunch Bunch) are involved in team-building exercises and games in which they learn and discuss valuable information about the upcoming transitions. In addition, all fifth graders are taken on a field trip to Francisco Middle School, in order to give them concrete experience of what middle school is like.
Each year, the AmeriCorps members at the Chinatown Beacon Center deliver the Lunch Bunch program to all of the 5th grade students at both Jean Parker and John Yehall Chin Elementary Schools. For the past years, the Lunch Bunch program has evolved and grown with each new AmeriCorps pair and the program’s increased involvement is the District 3 Youth Development Network.

This year the 5th graders were split into groups of ten students to fifteen students each group met twice a week for twelve sessions until all 5th graders had the opportunity to complete the program. Each session lasted for 30 minutes and began at 12:15p.m. and 1:15p.m. at Jean Parker and John Yehall Chin Elementary school respectively.