E³ Power Centers

Type:
Program model: Access points, case management and year-round programs for out-of-school youth and formerly adjudicated youth

Description:
The E3 Center model is a neighborhood-based, holistic approach to preparing out-of-school youth and youth returning from juvenile placement to achieve long-term educational, career and personal goals, including self-sufficiency. Philadelphia’s E3 Centers are designed to provide supports along three interrelated pathways: Education, Employment, and Empowerment, the three E’s. The educational pathway provides a broad array of educational services that support youth at varying academic levels, including: low-literacy supports; GED-prep classes; and post-secondary access and planning. The employment pathway provides intensive work-readiness programming that prepares participants for unsubsidized employment. Preparatory services include job-readiness training, subsidized internships, community-service and service-learning opportunities, as well as job search assistance. Using positive youth development principles as the cornerstone, Empowerment services support the development of life skills that help youth promote and sustain productive and healthy choices. E3 members, as participants are called at the Centers, when successful, accomplish the following outcomes:

Increased literacy and numeracy skills
21st century and work-readiness skills development
Attainment of a GED or High School Diploma
Post-secondary placement

During Program Year 2011-2012:
1,029 youth were served across the City’s five Centers with the following results:

53% of participants received a credential
57% of members secured a post-secondary placement

Contracted Provider Organizations	Center	Location / Phone
Youth Eligibility	Ages 16 to 21 Have dropped out of school, and/or returning from juvenile placement (referred through the Reintegration Initiative)
The Bridge, an affiliate of PHMC	E³ West Center	4111 Lancaster Avenue 215-387-2134
Communities in Schools of Philadelphia	E³ Southwest Center	CISP Education Center 5407-09 Grays Avenue 267-299-2500
Congreso de Latinos Unidos	E³ Girard Center	2800 N. American Street 215-763-8870, ext. 7260
Lutheran Children and Family Services	E³ Olney/Logan Center	5201 Old York Road, Ground Floor 215-455-5860
Resources for Human Development	E³ North Center	1231 N. Broad Street, 5th Floor 215-763-2393

Funding:
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Philadelphia Department of Human Services

System Connections:

Philadelphia Department of Human Services

Philadelphia Council for College and Career Success

Reintegration Initiative

Project U-Turn

WorkReady Philadelphia

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