YouthWorks 2006-07

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	Achievement through Community Service, Education and Skill Building (ACES)
	Career Exploration Program
	Bridges Plus
	The Gavel Project
	Life Readiness Project
	Nuevos Horizontes
	Program for the Advancement of Youth (PAY)
	Skills for Life
	Start on Success
	Year Round Career Exploration Program
	YLASP
	YouthWorks (GPUAC)
	YouthWorks (Pennsylvania School for the Deaf)
	YouthWorks (University of Pennsylvania)
	YouthWorks College Bound (YCB)

Achievement through Community Service, Education and Skill Building (ACES)
Please Touch Museum
210 North 21st Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Program Contact: Robert Green, 215-963-0667

The Please Touch Museum will provide work-based learning, academic enrichment, and mentoring to low-income and at risk in-school youth from the following high schools: Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, West Philadelphia, The Elwyn Davidson, and Mastery Charter School. ACES’ goal is to promote academic achievement and workplace readiness by providing comprehensive services that support students’ successful transition from high school to higher education and meaningful employment.

Career Exploration Program
Congreso De Latinos Unidos
216 W. Somerset Street
Philadelphia, PA 19133
Program Contact: Angie Cintron, 215-763-8870

Congreso de Latinos Unidos will provide educational and career exposure opportunities low-income and vulnerable youth from North Philadelphia. Congreso’s Career Exploration Program has four primary goals: 1) to increase youths’ academic skills and the likelihood of graduation, 2) to expose youth to new career and post-secondary educational opportunities, 3) to improve youths’ job-readiness skills, and 4) to provide an opportunity to earn a service learning credit. The program will offer youth innovative internships in a variety of settings, employment training, service learning, and academic tutoring. Ultimately, the program is aimed toward increasing youth’s commitment to post-secondary education.

Bridges Plus
Marriott Foundation
100 South Broad Street, Suite 1117
Philadelphia, PA 19110
Program Contact: Kelley Arredondo, 215-564-0327

The BridgesPlus program is designed to prepare Philadelphia high school seniors with disabilities for making the transition from school to work, and to place them into long-term unsubsidized employment. Program participants are followed and supported for 12-24 months to promote success in their initial placements and to help them meet Bridges Plus advancement criteria. The Bridges Plus Program will focus on launching young people with disabilities on a career path that will yield ongoing vocational growth and advancement. Key elements of the model, which maintains a necessarily low staff to participant ratio, are: establishment of an individualized “Career Development Plan” to guide the activities of every participant, full engagement of project staff with each participant for 12- 24 months, and regular 90 day reviews and action planning during that engagement period to assure steady progress towards vocational goals.

The Gavel Project
Education Works
3149 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19133
Program Contact: Keith Bailey, 267-575-7148

Education Works’ GAVEL Project: Guidance, Accountability, Vision, Education, Law will provide career readiness and academic enhancement to low-income and vulnerable youth from the following high schools: South Philadelphia, Germantown, Frankford, and Bartram (Southwest Philadelphia). The program is designed to let students explore areas of personal and professional interest, and structured to focus specifically on the numerous career opportunities within the field of law. The program has three primary goals: to improve the academic performance of students through the consistent, focused attention and resources of trained, professional staff; to productively engage students in the processes, practices, and skills needed to identify, pursue and secure employment; and to provide participants with a comprehensive introduction to the range of careers related to the law.

Life Readiness Project
To Our Children's Futures with Health
1914 North 63rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19151
Program Contact: Rico X, 215-879-7740

To Our Children’s Future With Health, Inc. will provide work-based learning, academic enrichment, and college/job readiness to low-income and vulnerable in-school youth from the Haddington-Overbrook, West Philadelphia, Nicetown-Tioga, and North Philadelphia areas. The Life Readiness Program will equip in-school youth with the resources needed for entrance into college and the workforce, and cultivate a positive work ethic and foster essential skills by utilizing a fully integrated academic and occupational support program. The Life Readiness Project will be guided by a partnership that will include local high schools, universities, and community-based organizations. In addition, a panel of agency-affiliated youth will be members of the partnership and will ensure that the youth voice is incorporated into strategic planning and programming.

Nuevos Horizontes
LULAC/NESC
2501 Kensington Avenue, Suite 111
Philadelphia, PA 19125
Program Contact: Michelle Rodriquez, 215-423-4811

LULAC National Educational Services Center (LNESC) will provide work-based learning, tutoring, and post-secondary preparation to economically disadvantaged and vulnerable youth from the West Kensington, Norris Square, Kensington, Port Richmond, and Olney areas. The Nuevos Horizontes program has three primary goals: 1) to increase the number of economically disadvantaged Hispanic youth entering post-secondary education with well developed skills for employment, 2) to prepare local economically disadvantaged students to enter the workforce with skills that make them attractive employees in high growth industries, and 3) to insure that all youth have information about post-secondary options that can enhance their long-term employability.

Program for the Advancement of Youth (PAY)
Indochinese American Council
4936 Old York Road
Philadelphia, PA 19141
Program Contact: Patricia Thompkins, 215-457-0272

IAC’s PAY (Program for the Advancement of Youth) will provide services to vulnerable in school youth including students with special needs and English as Second Language students from the greater Olney/Logan section of Philadelphia with: academic enrichment, preparation for post high school education, experiential college and career exposure, pre-employment readiness training and college and professional mentoring. These program activities will allow students to gain access to post high school education and entry-level jobs in projected growth industries. IAC has partnered with the following Philadelphia Cardinal Dougherty and Multicultural Academy Charter School (MACS), employers (Einstein, Temple and WES Health Center) and higher institutions (LaSalle University and Penn State) for this initiative. Through its comprehensive services, the PAY program will not only enable students to develop basic education and valuable employment skills, but also to establish healthy relationships with their teachers and peers.

Skills for Life
Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA)
1315 Walnut St., Ste. 1401
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Program Contact: Jeffrey Thompkins, 215-568-5860

The Skills for Life (SFL) Program meets the critical need for public and assisted housing youth by making a direct connection between the world of work and the academic preparation required for career success. The goal of the Skills for Life program is to equip students with the necessary academic, work readiness and social skills to graduate from high school and choose positive college or career options. The Skills for Life program provides academic enrichment in English, Math, and Science, as well as homework assistance, career exploration, and service learning. These concrete skills in core areas are augmented with computer technology, case management, and mentoring.

Start on Success
Communities In School
Rodin Place, Suite 201
2000 Hamilton Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Program Contact: Claude Schrader, 267-386-4600

The Success on Success (SOS) Program increases the career potential of Philadelphia High School students with disabilities by offering paid internships. The SOS program encourages students to discover that they have the skills needed to be successful in the workplace, that they can be self-supporting, and that they can look forward to a future of independence. The SOS program works youth attending Overbrook and University City High Schools between the ages of 14 and 21 years old. This program works to create partnerships with schools, colleges and universities, business and industry, the disabled community and government to accomplish its program objectives.

Year Round Career Exploration Program
Allegheny West
2801 Hunting Park Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19129
Program Contact: Brandon McMillian, 215-223-3714

The AWF’s Career Exploration program will provide career exposure and post educational options for vulnerable youth in the Allegheny West community in North Philadelphia. In addition to academic enrichments, SAT preparation and college counseling, youth are exposed to high growth industries and placed in internships within the community. Their primary programmatic goals are to increase the number of youth entering employment and post-secondary education post high school graduation from the Allegheny West community.

YLASP
The Free Library of Philadelphia
1901 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Program Contact: Rebecca Crawford, 215-567-2162

The Free Library of Philadelphia will provide a career and college readiness program to low-income and vulnerable youth from throughout Philadelphia. The program will strengthen the current Youth Leadership After School Program (YLASP) with additional partners, including the City of Philadelphia Department of Human Services, Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania. The goal of the program is to create an experiential and intensive college and career readiness model that promotes college and career readiness, fosters a strong work ethic and builds self-esteem to graduate high school and enter post-secondary education or appropriate employment.

YouthWorks
GPUAC - Workstream
1207 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Program Contact: Francesca Harrison, 215-851-1765

GPUAC-Workstream program will provide career and college exposure to vulnerable in-school youth with learning disabilities from Bartram High School. The program will provide students with life skills training along with academic support in the areas of literacy, numeracy, and basic computer skills. Other program features include a highly successful service-learning program for learning disabled students, a comprehensive program of college exposure, and wrap-around services with a strong mentoring component. Students will also be trained with and work side-by–side with regular education students as peer mediators.

YouthWorks
Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
100 W. School House Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19144
Program Contact: Vicki DiFederico, 215-754-4780

The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (PSD) provides year-round experiential learning opportunities to deaf and hard of hearing students for entire Philadelphia area. Through various structured work experiences in the health and hospitality areas as well as service learning activities, PSD prepares its students for entry into post-secondary programs and develop specific skills to enhance and assure successful and satisfactory life-long employment.

YouthWorks College Bound (YCB)
Philadelphia Futures
230 South Broad Street, 7th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Program Contact: TBD, 215-790-1666

Philadelphia Futures will provide academic enrichment, career awareness, work readiness, and college exploration, counseling, and guidance to low-income youth who attend high schools in the West and North Philadelphia neighborhoods who have good grades, attendance and behavior in their respective high schools.

The YouthWorks College Bound (YCB) Program is designed to help students understand the relationship between education, work, and satisfying life. YCB is structured around partnerships with four colleges and universities: Drexel University, Haverford College, Eastern University, and Holy Family University. These four schools will host programs for students in summer 2006. The school year programming for the Holy Family cohort will be provided by a partnership of Holy Family and Northeast High School. The school year programming for the Drexel, Haverford, and Eastern cohorts will be provided by Philadelphia Futures’ Sponsor-A-Scholar (SAS) Program.