Until Justice Data Partners

Sowing Seeds With Faith

Sowing Seeds with Faith is a Louisville based tutoring program. During the summer months, they run a summer camp, providing an opportunity for kids between the ages of 5-16 to get off the streets and learn important life skills.

The Summer Camp is well in need of funds and a larger building.

Until Justice Data Partners is a Louisville organization designed to support organizations in finding reputable data sources and providing suggestions for messaging around the data.

Until Justice Data also seeks to encourage more community-based research and community-based research partnerships, creating a community of justice researchers.

A Path Forward is a Louisville initiative that was founded after sudden rise in public racism in our society brought to the eyes of many the systemic and inherent racism of our society. Simply put, they’re working to make change in the system through the community.

THE NARRATIVE ABOUT BLACK CHILDREN

Test Scores % between Maupin, Kennedy, and Field

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Why is Sowing Seeds with Faith Necessary?

As a program run primarily for Black children and Black students it provides a number of necessary Black role models, and it has been proven that when being taught and led by people of their same race, students do better.

• Cheaper than other Summer Camps, a $75 p/week vs $225 p/week at the YMCA
• The lower Price tag is to the financial benefit of the intended group

• Black families typically have children earlier (Age 23.3 vs Age 25.1 on average)
• Black Women are more likely to be single mothers (51.8% of Black women reported no partner present in the 2020 Census)
• This indicates less chance of financial stability or lower income overall

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What metrics are missing?

• Black student comfort within their schools
• The budget inequality between west end schools and east end schools
• The disparity between the number of Black and White teachers
• The effects of poor mental health on students and their school work

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Why Sowing Seeds of Faith must be sustained

• Sowing Seeds with Faith addresses the disparity between Black and White teachers by providing Black tutors and role models.

• It’s a one of a kind program that creates Black Joy through culture, something which has been proven to have massive positive effects.

• The Summer camp teaches valuable life skills that most students either won’t learn until much later, if at all.

Sources

• backpackSkills (kyschools.us)
• https://www.jefferson.kyschools.us/node/1187/
• https://www.jefferson.kyschools.us/departments/data-management-research/graduate-outcomes

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