2010 Education Report
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Mercy Home provides food, shelter, safety and therapeutic support to help troubled and hurting children. The annual report details that before coming to Mercy Home, 76% of children suffered some form of abuse, 88% lived below the poverty line, and many lacked family support. After one year at Mercy Home, the children gained an average of 1.5 years in math and 1.8 years in reading, showing the positive impact of Mercy Home's educational programs.
2010 Education Report
- 1. Mercy Home for Boys & Girls 2009-2010 Annual Report on Education For generations Kids In Crisis 100 Mercy Home of hurting and Before entering Mercy Home, each child U.S.* troubled children, receives a thorough assessment to help 75 us create an individualized treatment 71% Mercy Home plan with goals and timetables. The data has been able 50 41% that results from this process tells us the to provide food, following about the challenges so many safety, shelter, kids face. 25% 25 and therapeutic 16.1% Abuse 9.1% 7.3% support. But the 0 challenges they’ve Kids need to feel safe and confident in order to succeed in school. But 76% come Sexual Physical Emotional faced before to us having suffered some form of abuse * According to data provided by US Department coming to at home. of Health and Human Services Mercy Home have held them back in the classroom. Poverty Family Challenges This report details Young people come to us from financially Successful students need support, structure disadvantaged households. and adult supervision. how, together with our caring donors Eligible to and co-workers, receive free or No biological Living reduced-price 100 father in we have been below lunches through the home able to make sure 100 official the federal poverty program 80 87% our young people 80 line receive the best 60 No biological education possible, parent as 60 so that they can 88% guardian create permanent 78% 40 47% 40 change in their lives, and build 20 20 futures of success and promise. 0 0
- 2. Academic On average, our young people came to us 3.3 years behind their appropriate grade level in math, and 2.7 years behind in reading. After only a year at Performance Mercy Home, they had gained an average of 1.5 years in math and 1.8 years in reading. 4 Before and After Youth gained Youth gained Mercy Home’s educational supports had average of average of 3 1.5 years in 1.8 years in a transformative effect on the academic math after reading after performance of young people who come one year one year to live with us: Years 2 Gained 1 0 1 Youth came to Youth came to Mercy Home Mercy Home 3.3 3.3 years 2.7 2.7 years Years 2 behind in behind in Behind math reading 3 4 71% 67% 64% 83% 16% had 96% 53% of 100% of tested gained tested gained repeated a advanced youth in seniors at behind ground in behind ground in grade a grade the largest Mercy grade math grade reading before level U.S. cities Home level in after one level in after one coming to while at graduate graduated math year at reading year at Mercy Mercy from high high upon Mercy upon Mercy Home Home school school admission Home admission Home last year 100 100 100 100 75 75 75 75 50 50 50 50 25 25 25 25 0 0 0 0 Before After Before After Before After Before After For more information visit us at www.mercyhome.org 1140 W. Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607 312.738.7560