Out of School Time Service Area Strategy
Beacon Community School
Overview
The Beacon Community School Strategy is designed to support the implementation of the SFUSD Comprehensive Community Schools Framework utilizing the Beacon Model at designated Tier 3 K-5 elementary schools, Tier 3 K-8 Schools and 6-8 middle schools. Beacon Community School programs are student-centered, grounded in partnership and focused on the needs of students, families and the school community. Beacon Community School programs provide powerful learning, integrated health and social supports, and authentic family and community engagement to develop students’ cognitive, social, emotional and civic capacities.
DCYF allocated $10,905,000 in annual funding to 27 programs across 15 agencies for the OST Beacon Community School Strategy.
Strategy Goals include:
To create expanded learning opportunities at schools in order for youth to feel safe, gain skills, develop supportive relationships and show growth in youth development and academic measures.
To ensure that parents and caregivers have a connection to school and access to community resources at their child’s school, have strong relationships with their children and other family members, and have the skills to navigate school and life more effectively.
To create school-community partnerships that are intentionally coordinated and aligned to meet the needs of the youth and families at that school so that they can thrive.
To support participants’ development of social and emotional skills.
Our Beacon Community School 2018-2023 Grantees include (School Sites in Parentheses):
Bay Area Community Resources (A.P. Giannini, Bret Harte, Herbert Hoover, Paul Revere)
Bayview Hunters Point YMCA (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School)
Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco (George Washington Carver Elementary)
Buchanan YMCA (Dr. William Cobb, John Muir)
Community Youth Center of San Francisco (Aptos Middle School)
Embarcadero YMCA (Bessie Carmichael)
Good Samaritan Family Resource Center (Willie Brown)
Jamestown Community Center (Buena Vista Horace Mann, Cesar Chavez, James Lick)
Mission Graduates (Bryant, Mission Beacon Center at Everett Middle School, Flynn, Sanchez)
Presidio Community YMCA (Marina Middle School Beacon Center)
Real Options for City Kids (El Dorado Elementary School, Visitacion Valley Middle School)
Richmond Neighborhood Center (Presidio Middle School, Roosevelt Middle School)
Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center (Francisco)
Urban Ed Academy (Malcolm X Academy)
Urban Services YMCA (Dr. Charles R. Drew, OMI/Excelsior Beacon Center at Denman Middle School)