ICAD's OUTREACH PROGRAMS
The following are community partnerships, at which all ICAD's services
are provided at no cost to the families.
¨ Community Action Inc. Head Start Programs, Haverhill, MA. A team
of four ICAD staff and volunteers travels over 100 miles once a week
to two-preschools serving over 120 children to collaborate with Community
Action, Inc. (CAI) Head Start programs. The children are referred by
their teachers for a variety of reasons, such as developmental delays
and social and/or behavioral problems.
¨ Empowering Youth Program, Collaboration with Wellspring House
Inc./Cape Ann Families, Gloucester, MA. A team of four ICAD staff and
volunteers travels over 100 miles once a week to collaborate with Wellspring
House/ Cape Ann Families, a shelter for women and their children, many
of whom are escaping domestic abuse. In this project, ICAD not only
provides direct service but also trains Cape Ann Families staff and
volunteers so that they can eventually provide services to children,
resulting in a permanent resource for the community.
¨ Savio Preparatory High School, East Boston, MA. A team of five
ICAD staff and volunteers travels 40 miles once a week to collaborate
with Savio Preparatory, an inner-city independent Catholic high school
of 400 students, with one guidance counselor and no special education
services. Many of these students are the first in their working class
families to attend a college preparatory school. ICAD provides diagnostic
screening to all incoming freshman. When test data indicate that the
adolescent has been affected by emotionally traumatic events they experienced,
(such as threats from gangs and neighborhood shootings) and is at-risk
for academic failure and adjustment problems, weekly counseling supplemented
by family meetings is provided. These services would otherwise be unavailable
to these students.
