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Promotional Methods: <br />Discover Your Parks- Tamarack Park (end of June)-information tent <br />Kickoff Event: Thursday, July 6 from 2-4 pm <br />Hosted a promotional eventin the new Marion Park location <br />o <br />Intentions were to bring awareness of the program and talk with families and youth <br />o <br />about what the program will entail (snap shot of the program) <br />Opportunity for youth/families to fill out registration/contact forms <br />o <br />Registration Nights: Staff conducted registration days twice in June <br />Collaborated with the school district to receive a listing of youth living within the <br />o <br />apartments <br />Staff went door to door, speaking with families about the program and getting youth <br />o <br />registered <br />During the first registration night on Tuesday, June 20 received close to 20 <br />o <br />pre-registrations <br />Fairview-Adult Learning Class <br />Visited with families from an ESL class at Fairview Community Center- offered program <br />o <br />information and assistance filling out the registration form <br /> <br />Attendance Numbers: <br />Program Date# of Participants <br />Tuesday-July 11 27 <br />Thursday-July 13 25 <br />Tuesday-July 18 25 <br />Thursday-July 20 25 <br />Tuesday-July 25 15 <br />Thursday-July 27 24 <br />Tuesday-August 17 <br />Thursday-August 3 RAINOUT <br />Tuesday-August 822 <br />Thursday-August 10 21 (Fieldtrip) <br />Staff Feedback: <br />Logistics <br />Allow more time to gather youth at the apartment complex- often take 15-20 minutes <br />o <br />to round participants up <br />Time and dates of program worked well - avoided conflicts with summer school and the <br />o <br />Hamline McVay program (which many students attend during summer months) <br />High temperatures were a factor at times, little shade at Tamarack Park- bring lots of <br />o <br />water (multiple jugs) on those days <br />Water bottle and t-shirt were a success- great to have water bottles each day on site for <br />o <br />kids to utilize <br />Drop in attendance on August 1 was due to another event by a local church- many <br />o <br />children attended that one time event (reach out to groups also providing these families <br />with opportunities to avoid conflicts in the future or work to collaborate on these dates) <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />