Services
Cultural Enrichment:
The cultural enrichment component will provide each participant with a wide array of activities through a curriculum encompassing cultural enrichment, career awareness and exposure, healthy living, and recreational activities designed to improve their self-awareness and self-esteem. The participants will engage in bi-monthly sessions where the aforementioned topics will be addressed.
Coaching:
Coaching services play an important role in reducing the stressors which contribute to high school drop-out rates. These services will enable the students to identify and address existing and unforeseen barriers to their success. As the definition of at-risk children includes a wide range of characteristics, including: 1) social and family background; 2) individual self-esteem; and 3) educational factors; a successful coaching strategy recognizes the varying needs of different at-risk children and provides individualized resources. The attributes of a successful program includes: early intervention; effective adult mentoring; parental involvement; improvement of self-awareness and self-esteem; involvement in extracurricular activities; and encouraging grade level transitions. The participants will engage in quarterly sessions with a professional Coach.
Tutoring/Mentoring:
The group will consist of up to fifty participating students. Each participating student will be assigned a mentor for the full duration of the program year. As such, the mentors will be recruited, pre-screened and selected to serve the students. The student and mentor will engage in bi-monthly scheduled activities which will fit the program’s cultural enrichment and/or healthy living focus which are designed to improve self-awareness and self-esteem.
Success Measurements:
The program’s success will be measured by:
- The number of students who remain in school during the program year
- The increase in the participation of extra-curricular activities which helps develop sustainable assets
- The number of students that have identified and developed career goals, through the Pre-Survey and Post-Survey Instruments
- Academic and behavioral improvement
- On-time promotion rate for participating students
In summary, STRIVE will use its three-part curriculum to increase the high school graduation rate of at-risk students; improve academic achievement; decrease behavioral referrals; and improve leadership skills.
