June 2020 virtual breakfast meeting - all panelist presentation

1. Wednesday June 10th, 2020 ~ 8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
8:00 Introductions and welcome, coffee coupon (please add name,
agency, and email to google doc in chat box)
8:05 Panelists:
Kevin Whitaker, Kevin Mitchell, Dr. Steven Schulz, Jennifer
Brownell, Gerry Barker, Karissa Schutt, Julie Champion, Scott
Ostrowski, Lucile Mallard, Sage Gerling
9:00 Thank you to Superintendent Trina Newton
9:10 Small group discussion if time allows
9:25 Thank you everyone – Stay healthy!
In light of our inability to network and
connect in person today – you are
encouraged to enjoy a cup of coffee on
Success for Geneva’s Children (up to
$5) by July 10th. Just say our name or
show a pic of this slide to their staff @
115 Washington St. and your order will
be added to our charge

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3. A New Tool for Collaborative
Success
Kevin Whitaker, Ed.D.
Assistant Superintendent
Geneva City School District

4. The Why
• Success mission: to enable Geneva’s children to rise to their full
potential
• GCSD Mission: educate and graduate all students with the essential
skills and knowledge to live lives of consequence
• Cost and costs of school disengagement
• Research on dropout prevention
• Collective influence on our children: Community Resources
• We have a lot of data, but intercommunication has been a barrier
• We needed a tool that we could use to link our collective work to student
success
• Learning Circle

5. Mission
The mission of Success for
Geneva's Children is to mobilize
the community to improve the
health and well-being of all our
children and their families.
Vision
Our name is our vision: Success
for Geneva's Children.
("success" is defined as children
being able to rise to their full
potential)

6. 2020 Success for Geneva’s
Children Partner of the Year

7. Steven A. Schulz, MD- FLMA Pediatrics

9. Jennifer Brownell
Executive Director

10. Child Advocacy Center of the Finger Lakes serves:
Ontario Seneca Yates
2019 = 325 cases
.
Since the stay-at-home order:
• 65% drop in reported cases State-wide
• 45% drop in reported cases at CACFL
• Increase in severity of cases
WHY?

11. Scott Ostrowski, LCSW
Supervisor of Counseling and Trauma Services

12. • Response to COVID19
• Implementation of telehealth for counseling and advocacy clients
• Successes and Challenges
• Hesitation for some clients but improved access and greater parent involvement for others
• Community Engagement
• Assisting with GCSD and Geneva City outreach efforts
• Plans for Return to the Office
• Ensuring safety of clients and staff
www.fcsfl.orgInfo and Referrals: (315) 789-2613 24 Hour DV Hotline: (800) 695-0390

13. Karissa Schutt
Director-Head Start/Pre-K
West Street School
Geneva City School District

14. “School Buildings are closed but
education is ongoing. Staff, students
and families are working harder than
ever in a new, unchartered world”
School closures due to coronavirus impacted at least 124,000
U.S. public and private schools and affected at least 55.1 million
students.-Education Week Edweek.org

15. Remote Education at WSS PK-1
✘ Remote Learning for 550 PK-1st graders
✘ Addressing Inequities
✘ Reaching and engaging all students and families
✘ Closeout and closure
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16. Planning for the unknown!
Re-imagining Education in an early childhood
learning center
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17. Child Care is Essential.
Before Covid-19 we knew that:
 There is a lack of infant and school age child care slots available
 Many parents cannot afford child care with the average cost of
care being $8,000-$12,000 annually
 Only 17% of low income families are able to receive child care
subsidy assistance
 Non-traditional hours of care are difficult to find in regulated
programs and parents tend to use informal or family care for
these shifts
 Child care providers are grossly underpaid making minimum
wage with very limited benefits, if any at all
 Employer rotating scheduling practices and lack of child care
benefits make finding and affording care difficult
 Substantial public and private funding is needed to support the
child care system and working community members
Julie Champion, Executive Director
671 S. Exchange Street, Geneva
www.cfresources.org

18. During …
Impact on the Child Care Community
• Lack of revenue due to low enrollment and Inability to keep staff on board
with this decreased revenue, forced some closures. Others closed for
precautionary reasons.
• For those that managed to stay open, the new challenge involved potential
health risks to children and staff. Increase in preventive measures including,
cleaning and sanitizing, masking, distancing (smaller separate groups),
changes to drop off and pick up procedures etc. helped mitigate risk.
• With decreased revenue and scarcity of supplies some family child care
programs could not access supplies or food. CFR was able to secure federal
CARES funding to support the purchase and distribution of supplies.
• Essential workers meeting income guidelines (300% of poverty level) were
able to access CARES scholarships to pay for child care from 4/20-5-31. CFR
administered the program and distributed CARES funds to child care
programs on behalf of qualified families.
• School work support for working parents was a challenge for some as many
child care settings remaining open do not always have the capacity to
provide schooling for children on top of caring for other younger children.
In Geneva…
3 of 4 Centers Closed
2 of 8 Family Child Care programs closed
2 of 3 SACC programs closed
Those remaining open were able to serve
essential workers needing care.
Child Care is Essential.

19. After…
Moving Forward…
• Re-Opening and maintaining overhead
with low enrollment will be a struggle
for some programs without providing
additional financial supports.
• Balancing CDC recommended small
group sizes with ratio and space for
groups will impact overall slot
availability in large programs.
• Bringing unemployed child care staff
back to work full time may be difficult.
• Ever-changing demand for care with
each phase of re-opening is difficult to
predict. Families may choose a non-
working friend or family member to
provide child care rather than a child
care program because of cost and
availability.
Closed programs in Geneva and across the Region began
the re-opening process in mid May as families prepare to
return to work during Phase 1 and 2
Child Care is Essential.

20. Feeding Children
During COVID-19
Pandemic
Gerald Barker
Food Service Director
Geneva City School District

21. Where We Have Been & Where We
are Going
Accomplishments:
• Where
• When
• People served
Future Plans:
• Where
• When
• People served

22. Lucile Mallard, Geneva NAACP
Geneva - Branch #2158
President: Lucille Mallard ~ 315-759-3885
genevanaacpchap@yahoo.com ~ P.O. Box 222

23. CONNECT GENEVA
City Manager Sage Gerling
City, Town, Blue Print Geneva Collaboration
Need information about local community
food distribution efforts or regional or
state wide financial assistance?
Have time to volunteer? Utilize the
website and social media outlets to find
information and connect with others.
You are not alone.
What’s happening in Geneva during
Covid-19?
Utilize ConnectGeneva.com to stay
connected to bi-lingual resources, to
find information and videos from
community agencies and individuals,
and to provide feedback about needs
or issues you believe need to be
addressed.
Our goal is to bring people (virtually)
together during this unusual time.

24. Welcome to our new board members!
Ahmad Whitfield, founder of Daddies Do Care.
Daddies Do Care came about when I attended Open House for my
daughter Ah’briel while in Headstart ‘17 . Chair of Head Start of Policy
Council, Caseworker for Catholic Charities, Drug Court Case Technician,
and currently Emergency Assistance Case manager for Canandaigua. I
am also a member of African American Men’s Association It is an
absolute honor and privilege to be on this board . This is a milestone for
me. And I local forward to expounding ideas forthcoming.

25. “I am very grateful to have
the opportunity to be part of
Success For Geneva`s
Children. I knew from the
first meeting I attended I was
surrounded by
compassionate, dedicated
and distinguished people
who love the children of
Geneva.” Joellen Schaefer,
Ontario ARC

26. THANK YOU – and wishing you well!
Thank you Superintendent Trina
Newton for being a tireless advocate
for our children and community!
Please keep in touch with us!

27. Thank you for your support and collaboration!
Please visit the website for access to HWS Professor
Emeritus Kevin Mitchell’s data
http://successforgenevaschildren.org/