As we finish up our capstone, screenings are also coming to an end in the Cleveland Public Schools as well. We officially screened around 60 of the elementary schools and a total of approximately 5,000 students. A combination of sophomores and juniors on certain Fridays, Ursuline students on Tuesdays and our Senior Screening days helped to complete this. All of the data will be prepared for the BMI notification letters to be sent home to parents. Specifically to our capstone project, my group focused on this letter and how it needed to be improved from previous years because of the high reading level of 10th grade, formatting issues and the overall message that was sent home. Our main goals were to decrease the reading level to 5th grade, make it a more appealing letter and also include parent resources in the community as well as in their own home. Getting the parents attention to their child's health status is the first step to them taking initiative to improve their overall well being.
One of the schools that I will always remember was Charles Mooney Elementary School when Amber Maciak and I were runners to the classrooms to collect the students and bring them to the screening site. There was a vision center special education classroom in this school that consisted of blind children and other disabilities. We had to bring each student up one at a time and really got to know each of them and their stories. That day made a big impact on me and it will be something that I look back on from my senior capstone.
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