2022-05-05T17:00:45-07:00 2021-12-31 990 2021-01-01 833036600 LEARNING HOME VOLUNTEERS LEAR 6505212478 633 Quarry Road Suite D San Carlos CA 94070 Victoria Shoemaker Executive Director 6505212478 2022-03-01 1 11 0 AAL2 2021 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z X Victoria Shoemaker 633 Quarry Road Suite D San Carlos CA 94070 71865 0 X www.learninghomevolunteers.org X 2019 CA Learning Home Volunteers' mission is to ensure that all children, regardless of their economic circumstances, enter kindergarten prepared. 6 6 0 50 0 0 22583 71865 0 0 0 0 0 0 22583 71865 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6164 8516 40075 8516 40075 14067 31790 31331 63121 0 0 31331 63121 Learning Home Volunteers' (LHV) mission is to ensure that all children, regardless of their economic situation, enter kindergarten prepared. LHV operates exclusively in SF Bay Area, working with low income families and their children ages 2-5. Our parents deliver the learning in their home. We invest in parents and empower them to realize their gifts as educators. We start by sharing the true work of play for children - learning. Through hands-on training and ongoing videos, we share how parents can enhance that learning with their involvement, by adding language, support, and sprinkling in preschool academic learning. We then equip the families with basic teaching resources (parent teacher's kit), books, and learning session materials delivered to their home every three weeks. Each learning kit contains theme-based, open-ended materials, books, and custom learning materials specifically chosen for the child based on their interests. Support is provided on our own private app. 0 0 10986 0 In our program, the child's first teachers, their parents, continue in their roles of the educator but instead of the learning being adult led, it is child led. This is a significant change in the relationship that parents have with their child, but an essential one. To help our parents make this change, our family coordinator is key. Not only are they responsible for bringing learning materials to the home every three weeks but maintaining a relationship with the parents. During their visits with the parents, they get to hear about each child's exploration and mastery. They answer questions that may have come up during the learning session. Finally, they are responsible for all supportive materials development which include the video sessions regarding activity learning ideas, surveys and intake activities are done by the family coordinator as well. This close relationship is reason for our high level of parent engagement which currently is 100%! Their intimate relationship allows us to be able to help with other barriers which our families face which affects their child's ability to learn - hunger, housing insecurity, language barriers, and a multitude of other issues. Our program coordinators are to connect our families to the resources that they need through the network of non-profits we have made connections with. We have been able to use our relationship to extend the learning of both the parents and their children - providing custom learning activities for each child and support for different teaching methods. 2711 0 Train and support parents to foster learning in a child-directed play program: Each parent is trained on the adult's role in child-directed play. Training includes both online training (1.5 hours) and in-person training (3 hrs). Ongoing training is provided through Classtag and in person visits by our family coordinators. Our families lack basic resources in the home for working with their children and 90% of our families have no children books in the home. As part of the training, we set our parents up for success by providing a parent teachers kit which includes our core books; math manipulatives; exemplars for primary and secondary colors, print numbers to 20, the alphabet; plus construction paper, markers, scissors, glue, unifix cube, and stringing materials. 10571 0 0 Our secret sauce is our learning sessions. Sessions focus on a single topic, i.e. like flowers, and will contain 7 to 13 individual learning activities for the parent and the child to explore together. We design each learning activity to meet the needs of a 2 year old just as elegantly as a 5 year old and the match the learning styles of both a careful cautious child as well as a busy active learner. Every activity offers opportunities for language, support for mastering pre-k academic skills and for building learning agility skills. Oh and the activities MUST be fun! We test the learning activities, incorporating materials that can be found in the home and keeping costs low. Once the "lesson" is fully designed, we turn it over to our volunteers who manufacture, package and document the activities. All lessons are accompanied by 3-4 books read aloud by our storyteller. Finally we create videos, in both English and Spanish, to introduce the learning activity materials, its purpose and ideas for using the learning materials. The learning kits are prepared for each learner. Each gets the session's materials and custom learning activities based on their interests. In addition, we add donated books in either English or Spanish. The learning kits are brought to the home and exchanged for the previous session learning kit. During the learning session, our families set their own pace. Some work with their children every day, others only on the weekends. Connecting on our closed social media network, they watch the accompanying learning session videos and post pictures and videos of their family engaging with the learning activities. This becomes documentation of cherished learning firsts, laughter, failed activities and obsession and mess of learning. 7672 0 0 We have moved to a warehouse to support our growth and allow us to be able design and manufacture the learning kits, learning activities and store our custom learning activities and donated books. This incurred some one time charges for moving, but will have ongoing cost for the space rental to store and build our learning activities 7672 0 0 31940 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 6 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 CA X Victoria Shoemaker 6505212478 633 Quarry Road Suite D San Carlos CA 94070 X Emily Evans Secretary 4 X X 0 0 0 Muffie Waterman Board Member 15 0 X 0 0 0 Joanne Donsky Board Member 5 X 0 0 0 Jacob Sanchez Board Member 1 X 0 0 0 Victoria Shoemaer Executive Director & Board Chair 36 0 X 0 0 0 Andy Fukuba Treasurer 10 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 71865 0 71865 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 71865 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16986 10986 0 6000 330 0 330 0 727 0 727 0 164 0 0 164 0 0 0 0 7672 7672 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14196 13282 914 40075 31940 1971 6164 31331 63121 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31331 63121 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 31331 63121 31331 63121 31331 63121 31790 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 0 0 19141 22853 71865 113859 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19141 22853 71865 113859 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 113859 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19141 22853 71865 113859 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Andy Fukuba and Victoria Shoemaker are both employees at Taurus Software Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The executive director reviews the returns with the board members and answers any questions any item that appears on the return. The board votes to authorize the submission of the return. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Each year conflict of interest forms are sent to each board member and returned to the secretary. Chair reviews each form and notes any conflicts and reports them to the board. Any matter where the conflict arises, member must abstain. For any contract review, the board is asked if any conflicts exist between the board member and the vendor. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 All employee job offerings must be in alignment with offerings made for similar jobs in other organizations. This information is found through research of aggregated salary offering in our area. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Upon request through a web communication or a phone call to the organization or an email to the organization Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Learning Home use contractors to help provide services needed. This year we used contractors to act as our family coordinators. A family coordinator is a multi-lingual support person who helps the families and their children learn. They do initial intake of the family, training of the parents, deliver learning kits, and provide ongoing support for the learning taking place in the home. We also used a fundraising researcher to help us identify grantors who supported organizations like ourselves. She was responsible for identify the organization, its capacity for funding, and the process to apply. Lastly to evaluate family engagement during COVID, we hired a contractor to put together statistics on family engagement from their use of our private social network Classtag. Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e Learning Sesssion materials, teachers kits and parent teacher training materials.