What is Project RISE? 

Project Rise is a quality improvement initiative funded by The Children’s Trust. Project RISE is designed to help Trust-funded out-of-school agencies’ (OOS) quality of care rise to meet the health and safety, academic, and social-emotional needs of the youth they serve.  We not only provide support (through training and evaluation) to help OOS programs be the best that they can be, but we also assist the Trust in data analysis and outcome identification for OOS programs.  Project RISE is focused on using research to support programs and is guided by five (5) main principles: Feedback, Relationships, Effort, Support, and High-Level Coordination.

How can Project RISE help you?

We can help you directly.  Through evaluation, we are able to identify the strengths of your program as well as any areas where support is needed.  Once these areas are identified, we can offer your program direct assistance through individual technical support and regularly-scheduled trainings.

• RISE offers free individual technical support and training to all Trust-funded OOS programs.  This support can be provided by telephone, e-mail, or on-site!  Just send us a request for the type of assistance you would like and we’ll be available.
  
  
• We have developed trainings in a variety of areas, ranging from measuring required programmatic outcomes (e.g., Oral Reading Fluency testing) to strategies for managing challenging behaviors effectively.  Our regularly-scheduled trainings are designed to bring you the most effective and research-supported strategies in those areas.

What is the Project RISE training philosophy? 

Project RISE makes a distinction between “presentations” intended to produce greater knowledge and awareness, and “trainings” which are designed to produce lasting changes in skills and performance.  Often presentations precede training in the sense that awareness and knowledge-building exercises must serve as the building blocks for lasting behavioral changes.  Therefore, Project RISE-sponsored workshops follow a standard, four-phase format.

• In Phase I, engagement of the learner, the presenter explains the topic and as well as the relevance of the presentation to the learner, their job, career-planning, and ultimately the quality of the child-care program as a whole.
  
  
• In Phase II, presenters will demonstrate or model the skill or skills to be learned (where relevant).
  
  
• In Phase III, the participants will be invited to practice the skill and receive feedback on the execution of the skill.
  
  
• Phase IV is a generalization and maintenance phase which will provide on-site monitoring and feedback on performance of the skill or skills.

How do I qualify for assistance from Project RISE? 

All OOS programs funded by The Children’s Trust qualify for support from Project RISE.