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MESD, in partnership with Oregon Youth Authority, will use $1.1 million in federal grant funds to provide college credit to students through Portland Community College. MESD's Joy Koenig is the Principal at Three Lakes High School, Riverside High School and Ocean Dunes High School at the Oregon Youth Authority's Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility. "Opening Doors will connect our students who are released and transitioned to the Portland area with college access and employment - as well as internships in the Portland community," said Koenig. "This grant will help support our students in a way that has never been done before: namely, provide services to our students after they leave Oak Creek. This opportunity offers them assistance with the college entrance experience, scholarships for two years of college credit, and work study options for approximately 20 hours per week. We are very excited for our students." This grant also provides additional hours of support in Career and Technical Education for Three Lakes High School and Riverside High School.
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MESD’s Instruction Services department was recently awarded a $670,000 grant by the Oregon Department of Education to support African American / Black student success. The grant will fund resources, support and wraparound services for Black and African American students in detention and who are transitioning from detention back to their community and neighborhood schools. It will address the impact of the trauma these youth have experienced in their lives and the lack of culturally responsive supports as they reenter their local school systems and increase and create an opportunity to strengthen communications and relationships between staff, families and students as they transition between education and correctional settings.
Scott Ryan, Principal at Donald E Long explained, “This grant will allow us to focus on the process of re-entry for the community and the youth almost immediately when the youth enters detention. At the time the youth enters detention they will be assigned a school coach who will follow the student through the system and advocate and support them in their education, providing continual touch points throughout the justice process to ensure student success. At the same time, the ESD and its culturally informed and responsive partners will work to reengage the community where the youth as offended and help it to become a ready, open, informed and welcoming community when the youth returns.” MESD provides instruction to youth in detention, a disproportionate number of whom identify as students of color, at the Donald E Long Juvenile Justice Center, the Inverness Juvenile Incarceration Center and Assessment and Evaluation secure residential treatment facility for Multnomah County. The agency has and will continue to be engaged in the specific work of supporting students in detention and who are returning to their neighborhood schools and communities. Multnomah ESD's "Lighting the Way" program earned the Grand Prize at the 2016 Innovation Awards presented by Oregon Association for ESDs. The award recognizes a program or service that changes the conversation from what we must do to what we can do differently and effectively to improve the lives of students. The "Lighting the Way" model provides immediate academic support to students receiving care in acute psychiatric hospital units and prepares districts to support students who have been discharged and are re-entering school. The model provides this support through teacher liaisons that facilitate communication between medical and school district teams. When children enter hospital care, MESD teachers assess their immediate and long-term learning needs and communicate with the student’s home district. Teachers notify districts that a student is receiving care and may request or make a recommendation for an IEP or 504 plan. When the child is discharged, MESD teachers provide districts with information that allow them to prepare appropriate supports for student re-entry. As part of the model, MESD developed HIPPA and FRPA compliant hospital discharge forms. These forms are completed by medical teams and contain information the districts need to prepare and provide appropriate supports to students re-entering the school setting. MESD teachers also provide academic updates to district staff to ensure a smooth hand-off from hospital instruction to home district instruction. MESD has served over 300 students as part of the Lighting the Way model.
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