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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES
RECREATION DIVISION
COMMUNITY SERVICES
PROGRAM MISSION: To create a vibrant and enjoyable community by providing high
quality recreation services for all.
Community Services provides
services with a specialized focus on building a better sense of community with
an emphasis on inclusion among senior adults, teens, and persons with
disabilities. A collaborative strategy
with the Community Recreation Service Areas, schools, and social service
agencies helps to identify, develop, and implement prevention and intervention
strategies, programs and training. This
unit has a specific asset-building focus with youth through the Office for
Teens and the Therapeutic Recreation Office.
The Office of Senior Adult Programs encompasses the former Department of
Human Services (DHS) senior center programs, senior centers and neighborhood
activity centers.
Specific goals include promoting
healthy aging, socialization, independence, empowerment, and quality of life
for older Arlingtonians; providing constructive alternatives for youth that
will mitigate high risk behaviors; providing services for teens that promote
positive participation, decision-making, leadership, and healthy leisure
choices with a focus on development of social, physical, and cognitive skills;
meeting the recreation and leisure needs of youth, teens, and adults with
mental, emotional and physical disabilities.
Outcomes are measured by pre and post participant tests for knowledge,
skills, attitudes, and behavior; trained observation; and self-reporting
benefits of participation as part of program evaluation.
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Community
Services
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FY 2002
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FY 2003
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FY 2004
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% Change:
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Actual
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Adopted
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Proposed
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'03 to '04
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Personnel
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$1,784,160
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$1,936,578
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$1,998,402
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3%
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Non-Personnel
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241,742
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263,624
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240,301
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-9%
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Total Expenditures
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2,025,902
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2,200,202
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2,238,703
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2%
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Fees
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140,381
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149,755
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152,517
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2%
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Grant
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41,606
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54,425
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-100%
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Total Revenues
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181,987
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204,180
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152,517
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-25%
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Net Tax Support
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$1,843,915
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$1,996,022
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$2,086,186
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5%
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Authorized FTEs
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41.5
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41.5
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41.2
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Funded FTEs
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41.5
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41.5
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41.2
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SIGNIFICANT BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS:
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The Bully Prevention Grant ends in FY 2003, with a
decrease of 0.8 FTE and $37, 798 in personnel expense. The FTE decrease is
partially offset by a transfer of 0.5 FTE transfer from County-Wide Programs to
the Senior Adult Programs. The net
overall decrease is 0.3 FTE.
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Decrease in non-personnel is mainly due to the Bully
Prevention Grant that ends in FY 2003 ($16,627), and internal County telephone
charges ($7,861), and a slight increase in rent for Culpepper Garden ($1,165).
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The Bully Prevention Grant program called Positive
Attitudes in Leisure and Learning (PALL) has provided training, education,
skill development and resource support to permanent staff in an effort to
maximize their capacity to continue PALL once funding has ended.
PERFORMANCE MEASURES:
Objective: Office for Teens - Provide a wide variety of
constructive alternatives for teens that encourage healthy leisure choices with
a focus on prevention and intervention efforts towards increasing youth assets
and protective factors, while collaborating with various county agencies (Department of Human Services, Police,
Libraries) to provide multi-disciplinary delivery of these services.
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FY
2001
Actual
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FY 2002
Actual
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FY 2003
Estimate
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FY
2004
Estimate
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FY
2004
Target
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Mission
Outcome Measures
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Percent of
participants demonstrating positive pro-social behavior while engaged in
inter-agency program collaborations
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75%
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75%
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75%
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78%
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78%
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Percent of
participants demonstrating knowledge
of healthy leisure choices and pursuits
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85%
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85%
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85%
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88%
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88%
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Percent of
participants showing leadership and contributing services to their community
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20%
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20%
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20%
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25%
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25%
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Percent of
participants showing decision making and problem-solving skills
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95%
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95%
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95%
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95%
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95%
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Workload Measures
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Number of
participants attending programs
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4,194
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4,500
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4,950
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5,100
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5,100
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Increased program availability and access to
youth as well as strengthened partnership and coordination with existing school
activity coordinators and outreach into middle school youth populations has
resulted in greater participation in recreation program through Activities in
Motion (AIM).
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The AIM Program has increased youth
participation in Saturday Night Teen Café and special events.
Objective: Therapeutic
Recreation-Prevention Intervention Office
- To increase and improve assets, socialization, appropriate interaction,
communication, physical and motor skills, and involvement in personal leisure
activity selection, as demonstrated by cooperative participation with peers in
planned activities.
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FY
2001
Actual
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FY 2002
Actual
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FY 2003
Estimate
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FY
2004
Estimate
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FY
2004
Target
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Mission
Outcome Measures
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Percent of
participants who demonstrate cooperative participation with peers in
segregated and included programs as measured by pre and post tests,
observation, and self-reporting
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84%
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82%
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84%
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89%
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89%
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Decrease in
reports of being bullied verbally or physically
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N/A
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N/A
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15%
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15%
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15%
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Percent of
children requesting assistance when being bullied
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N/A
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80%
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85%
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90%
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90%
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FY
2001
Actual
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FY
2002
Actual
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FY
2003
Estimate
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FY
2004
Estimate
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FY
2004
Target
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Percent of
children reporting that their learning and leisure environment is enjoyable, safe and stress-free as a result of
bullying awareness
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N/A
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80%
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80%
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80%
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80%
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Workload Measures
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Number of individuals
with disabilities and/or special needs
participating in segregated/special recreation programs
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226
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301
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310
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310
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310
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Number of
individuals with disabilities or history of
engaging in inappropriate or negative behavior included in general recreation programs receiving
support and accommodations to successfully participate
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96
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140
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170
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170
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170
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The increase in number of individuals with
special needs participating in segregated programs reflects an increased number
of disabled adults moving into group homes in Arlington and using recreation
services.
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PRCR redirected part time staff to provide
additional services to persons with disabilities to participate in integrated
programs. We experience an increased
request from parents for support for inclusion and accommodation for children
in integrated program settings.
Objectives: Senior Adult Office - To promote healthy
aging and independence while decreasing isolation through the provision of
comprehensive recreation programs and activities.
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FY
2001
Actual
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FY 2002
Actual
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FY 2003
Estimate
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FY
2004
Estimate
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FY
2004
Target
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Mission Outcome Measures
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Percent
of frail seniors reporting decreased feeling of isolation
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92%
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95%
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95%
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95%
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95%
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Percent of
immigrant seniors reporting a strong sense of community and increased quality
of life
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92%
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95%
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95%
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95%
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95%
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Workload Measures
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Overall
registration in office for senior adult programs (OSAP)
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3,000
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3,200
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3,500
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3,550
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3,550
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OSAP
programs and activities as measured by total attendance
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93,490
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103,000
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105,000
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108,000
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108,000
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FY
2001
Actual
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FY
2002
Actual
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FY
2003
Estimate
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FY
2004
Estimate
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FY
2004
Target
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Number of
frail seniors participating in wellness and activity programs
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230
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245
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350
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350
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350
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Number of
immigrant seniors participating at Arlington Mill
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280
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300
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300
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300
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300
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The growth in senior program attendance is
reflective of the transfer of the former DHS senior center programs to PRCR in
July 2002; an increase in participation in the Travel program as a result of
outreach to underrepresented minority populations; and increased outreach in
wellness education and quality of fitness programming.
FUTURE BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS:
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The REACH (Recreation, Education, and Access and
Inclusion, Community Building, and Health) Senior Adult program at Arlington
Mill is in its fifth year of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
funding. The four-day per week program
serves 75 low-to-moderate income senior adults in the Columbia Heights West
neighborhood strategy area. If CDBG
funding ends, there will be a need for County funding.
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Trend towards inclusion in general recreation programs
by individuals with disabilities or individuals with a history of negative
behavior indicates that there may be a need for additional support and
accommodations requiring lower staff to participant ratios.
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