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slide 2 SPARK:Supporting Partnerships to Assure Ready Kids: Helps Children Get Ready for Kindergarten by Building Reading, Language and Social Skills for Pre-Kindergarten ChildrenCommunity Solutions Association in partnership with the Raymond John Wean Foundation recently shared evaluation results from the University of Akron highlighting the success of the Warren SPARK program. SPARK, Supporting Partnerships to Assure Ready Kids, is in its third year in Warren, and continues to see evidence of
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slide 3 the benefits of this program for Warren City children. SPARK pairs Warren 4 year olds and their parents with parent partners to prepare children for kindergarten. In 2010 SPARK children scored 4.2 points higher than non-SPARK children, a statistically significantly increase, documenting the programs success. SPARK is an early childhood literacy program that helps prepare children for Kindergarten by building reading, language and social skills. It is currently offered in two Warren City elementary schools, Willard and Jefferson, and has grown from 48 children in 2008 to 68 children currently. Community Solutions works in partnership with Warren City School professionals who provide speech and behavioral services for identified children. The success of SPARK across Ohio was recognized by the Youngstown City Schools. The Wean Foundation now provides funding for the Youngstown SPARK program. D&E Counseling Center manages the program and Community Solutions provides training and consultation during their first year of the program. SPARK, a statewide initiative, began in Warren in 2008, funded by the Kellogg Foundation in partnership with Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton.
slide 4 Thought from CEOKen Lloyd"Watch well your beginnings..."was advice offered me many years ago. It is one of those pieces of advice that served me well then and has increased in meaning over the years (I wont say how many even if I could remember). As I reviewed the draft for this newsletter, this saying again came floating into consciousness. It was like getting a stick stuck in the spokes of a bicycle. All the scurrying stops and for a moment, you're focused on what's important. The diversity of services and programs we provide at Community Solutions Association are all in one way or another connected to the concept of beginnings. Our services programming is organized along a continuum of: Prevention, Intervention & Treatment. Whether, your journey is just starting, you're somewhere along the path, there's a need to reconfigure or you feel a need to start over, we can be of assistance. These newsletters are a way for us to inform you of these efforts, impacts and outcomes. The premise is that if we as individuals, families and community live consciously and are painstaking from the beginning or new beginning to provide or acquire the needed fundamental information, skills and support, the journey can be one heck of an adventure. If deficient in any of these areas the journey may take some wild twists and turns; lead you to places you dont want to be and can even turn deadly. We are proud of the efforts and resultant outcomes discussed in these articles and are appreciative of the partnerships they represent. We are also honored to be a part of others' beginnings and humbled by what people can, and do accomplish when afforded the opportunities, information, support, tools and skills to make great things happen. "Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves" -Alexander Clark.
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THE FACTS:It is illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to drink alcohol.It is illegal to allow underage drinking in your home or any other location.Parents can be criminally prosecuted under the law for allowing underage drinking.Parents can be sued civilly for damages caused by teenagers who have been allowed to drink alcohol in your home or on your property.
slide 7 Page 8 Page 9 W.I.N. Women Empowered Now Community Solutions highly-effective Women Empowered Now (WIN) program is in its 13th year as an ODADAS (Ohio Department of Drug and Alcohol Services) funded program. WIN is a three phase program directed by Karen Carlson and Barbara Ozimek. CSA staff continues to be amazed by the excitement generated in response to the program. In the past four (4) months CSA has developed partnerships with Beatitude House, a two year transitional house for women with children, Someplace Safe Women's Shelter and most recently with the STEP UP program, located at the Warren YWCA in collaboration with the Hard Hatted Women (HHW) organization. STEP UP accepts referrals from the Trumbull County Job and Family Service Agency for a 9 month training program that prepares young women for non-traditional careers in manufacturing, construction, energy, information technology and green technology. Women in these different programs have similar needs including coming to terms with their role as a woman in an age characterized by strained families, strained relationships, single parent families, divorce, loss, and trauma. These factors are often compounded by substance abuse which makes their issues hard to understand, let alone cope with. Through the lens of WIN, counselors find that women don't want to wallow in misery or be dependent on the system or a relationship. Women want to get on with their lives as self-sufficient individuals that can be happy and productive in a chosen career, as a mother, a companion or spouse, and be seen as a whole person; not one who is a victim, or less than whole. The WIN program curriculum was developed by CSA based on the expressed needs of the women who were the first participants in WIN. The goals are to promote abstinence and support women's social and emotional development. Recognizing the needs of the women, CSA was able to implement existing best practices and enhance them with still more current evidence- based material. Program directors continue to develop expertise through training in Trauma and more specifically Trauma in Women. Program Directors and counselors also participate on a biannual basis in the statewide Women's Symposium sponsored by the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services and the Ohio Department of Health. The Women's Grant is supported by the Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board and The Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services.
Page 10 W.I.N. Client Testimony"The first (WIN) session I attended was about Codependency and that was the story of my life. I was at such a low point. I'm sober now and in school starting my senior year and I'm looking at applying to Law Schools. This program has brought meaning and purpose into my life. When I started WIN, I was in jail and now I am a resource to others. I can't believe it! I've even gotten an Advocacy Group together to help women with things that lawyers don't want to be bothered with. We have helped many women and seniors with creditors and landlords. Im able to do all this because of WIN."To find out more about Community Solutions' treatment and prevention programs please contact us at 330-394-9090

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