Wraparound Waltham: Year 4 Annual Report: Overarching Impacts of Wraparound Waltham & 2022-2023 Academic Year Program Summary
Prepared for Newton-Wellesley Hospital
September 2023
In October 2019, Newton Wellesley Hospital (NWH) awarded a four-year grant to a multi-agency collaborative, led by Waltham Partnership for Youth (WPY) to launch a new initiative to more holistically support emerging bilingual newcomer high school students enrolled in the Waltham Public Schools (WPS). Wraparound Waltham focuses on Latinx Spanish-speaking\ students and their families, who have recently immigrated to the U.S. and may benefit from additional supports to be successful in school. The program leverages in-school and out-of-school supports designed to address needs such as food and housing; health and mental health care; immigration representation; linguistic and social inclusion; and engagement and belonging.
Wraparound Waltham aims to:
- Support emerging bilingual newcomer students and their families from Latin America
- Provide academic and non-academic supports to newcomer students fostering school and
- community belonging, emotional safety, and well-being
- Facilitate access to school and community information, resources, and services
- Increase high school persistence, grade advancement, and graduation rates
The UMass Donahue Institute provided evaluation support and progress monitoring for this initiative. For this evaluation, WPY submitted annual participant-level data. Each Wraparound partner also submitted annual narrative progress reports and participated in a facilitated all-partners meeting. This report summarizes key findings of the Wraparound Initiative across the four years of the grant and presents key findings for the 2022-2023 academic school year, hereafter referred to as SY2022-2023.
