Chapter Two: Activities and Accomplishments of the Summer of Service beneficiary count, it can be estimated that the Summer of Service initiative provided information and/or assistance to a total of more than 1.8 million people.3 Service Area Focus Exhibit 2.2 presents the numbers of Summer of Service programs that addressed each of the four Service Areas (Education, Health, Environment and Public Safety) that represented the principal focus of the summer initiative. Exhibit 2.3, below, shows the cumulative participant service hours devoted to each of these Service Areas over the course of the summer. Among the four Services Areas, the Education service area was the most frequently addressed, with 14 of the 16 Summer of Service grantees (87 percent) incorporating projects focusing on this area. Health-related and Environment-related projects were part of the Summer of Service programs of more than half the grantees. However, only three programs (19 percent) included a Public Safety focus. 3 Only one site provided a detailed estimate of the number of individuals reached through its mass media/general outreach efforts, which served on the basis for the estimates of 1.8 million people. If all sites had done a thorough analysis of individuals reached through comparable efforts, the figure for total individuals assisted through the Summer of Service could be expected to be much larger. Chapter Two: Activities and Accomplishments of the Summer of Service A majority (almost two-thirds) of the participants' service activity time was spent on projects in the Education Service Area. · Although only one-fifth of the participants' service hours were devoted to Health-related projects, according to Exhibit 2.1 projects in this Service Area served more beneficiaries than the other three areas combined. The relationship between number of beneficiaries and service hours for each of the four Service Areas was as follows: These figures reflect the fact that many of the Health-related services, such as health advocacy and lead paint identification required less time per beneficiary than the Education services -- such as tutoring, summer school classes, art and enrichment programs even when the latter were provided in a classroom (group) setting. In the next section of this chapter, the specific activities undertaken by the Summer of Service grantees are examined in more detail. Service Activities Performed by Participants at the Summer of Service Sites In their End of Summer Activity and Accomplishments Reports, the individual grantees were asked to identify the specific service activities that the Summer of Service participants carried out. All 16 Summer of Service programs carried out multiple service activities. Exhibits 2.4 2.7 show the numbers of grantees reporting each specific service activity, organized by Service Area. |