The Casita Maria QUAD Initiative
(Quality, Understanding, Accountability, Discipline)

Casita Maria will implement an after school and summer program that provides literacy improvement, tutoring, arts education and career preparation skills. Casita Maria's arts education curriculum, QUAD(Quality, Understanding, Accountability and Discipline) will provide 150 participants ages 6-17 with formative skill building, academic and literacy achievement, intermediate and advanced skill building, career preparation,job creation, and community service learning. To accomplish these objectives Casita Maria will provide arts integrated experiential classes and arts performances through 3-hour after school and 6-week summer programs. Annually, an evaluator will measure cumulative progress through case studies, attitudinal change instruments, and the tracking of school attendance, academic and skill building achievement. Casita Maria will report results to OJJDP in the grantee's Categorical Assistance Progress Reports. NCA/NCF