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The National At-Risk Education Network
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Missouri At-Risk Education
Contacts, News & Initiatives
NAREN Missouri State Chapter!
We are currently assembling our core group of members with the intent of starting a Missouri State Chapter. Please email kristin.drummond@park.edu if you are interested in becoming involved or would like more information.
Missouri's New Take on Juvenile Justice
Amid Calls for a National Reform A Different Approach Yields Surprising Results. By Chris Cuomo, Joseph Diaz, and Kate McCarthy (Sept. 8, 2009)
Missouri At-Risk Education
Funding/Grant Funds Available
Area Career Education Technical Learning Center
The career education Area Technical Learning Center program provides financial assistance for eligible local education agencies to develop, implement, and operate programs designed to prevent students from leaving school without a diploma and to encourage those who have left early to return and complete their education. The program must include career awareness activities and the opportunity for enrollment into a career skill training program. Financial assistance is provided to local education agencies that have Missouri State Board of Education designation as an area career education school district.
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Home Depot focuses it's giving in four areas: affordable housing, at-risk youth, the environment, and disaster preparedness. It's focus on at-risk youth is: "Established programs that help to develop leaders and encourage young people to become contributing community citizens through job readiness training, leadership development and volunteerism are specifically of interest to The Home Depot Foundation. Grants are directed toward programs that target youth, ages 12-18, residing in under-served community." Deadline: Applications are welcome at any time.
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The Rosie O'Donnell For All Kids Foundation provides financial support to nonprofit programs serving economically disadvantaged and at-risk children and their families. Priority is given to programs serving low-income, urban areas. Deadline: Applications are welcome at any time. Disbursements of funds occur in March and October.
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The Starbucks Foundation awards grants to local nonprofit organizations that serve low income, at-risk youth between the ages of 6 and 18. These grants support innovative programs that enhance culture diversity and involve families, schools and neighborhood organizations, particularly in traditionally underserved communities. Grants are concentrated on two areas of interest: the Power of Literacy, which focuses on programs that stimulate personal development and encourage commitment to social equity, justice and environmental awareness through writing, literacy and the promotion of the voices of youth in public forums, and Leaders in Diversity, which focuses on programs that teach the value of societal diversity, with an emphasis on the development of leadership skills to build bridges of understanding between individuals, groups and communities. Preference is given to programs that offer opportunities for Starbucks employees and stores to be involved. Grants range from $5,000 to $20,000. Deadline: April 1, October 1
Laws & Regulations Affecting
Missouri At-Risk Education
Missouri Educational Opportunities for At-Risk Youth
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The A+ Schools Program was created in 1993 by state law as an incentive for improving Missouri's high schools. The primary goal of the A+ Schools Program is to ensure that all students who graduate from Missouri high schools are well prepared to pursue advanced education and/or employment. The A+ Schools Program is designed to accomplish that imperative. The A+ Schools Program will mobilize an intensive partnership among high schools, community colleges, students, teachers, parents, labor, businesses, and communities to give these students the motivation, skills, and knowledge to graduate from high school. It will create an innovative and well-designed path from high school to high skill, high wage jobs.
Noteworthy Missouri Alternative At-Risk Education Programs/Schools
Columbia Region
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The mission of the Youth Empowerment Zone (YEZ) is to: "Proactively reach under-served, easily-neglected, at-risk, urban YOUTH. Relationally connect them to the ideas and activity of EMPOWERMENT. Resource them with info & networks to embrace a successful Life in the ZONE"
Read an article that mentions YEZ in the Missourian!
Tel: (573) 256-1896
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YouthBuild is a youth and community development program that simultaneously addresses core issues facing low-income communities: housing, education, employment, crime prevention, and leadership development. In YouthBuild programs, low-income young people ages 16-24 work toward their GEDs or high school diplomas, learn job skills and serve their communities by building affordable housing, and transform their own lives and roles in society.
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The Intersection is more than just an "after-school" program. Our goal is to actively engage our community in becoming a healthy place where all its members can grow and learn.
Phone: (573) 817-0089
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Our mission is to keep children safe and to support families in crisis through prevention, assessment, and intervention in child abuse and neglect.
Kansas City Region
KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program)
KIPP is a national network of free, open-enrollment, college-preparatory public schools with a track record of preparing students in underserved communities for success in college and in life. There are currently 66 KIPP schools in 19 states and the District of Columbia serving over 16,000 students.
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KIPP Endeavor Academy is a free public charter school that currently serves approximately 80 students from around Kansas City's urban core.
Contact: Jon Richard
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University Academy is a K-12 college preparatory charter public school located in Kansas City, Missouri. The school was founded by people who believe deeply that students living in Kansas City, Missouri deserve the opportunity to have an excellent college preparatory education. The founders' vision was to establish a school that emphasizes college preparation, career development, community service and leadership.
Contact: Gary Martasin, Director of Communications & Development, tel: (816) 412-5983
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The Urban Youth Theater is a performing arts program for youth ages 7 to 17. Youth are provided performing arts activities outside of school with the goals of enhancing the growth, development and self-esteem [of urban youth].
Tel: (816) 627-2140
Park University — M.Ed Teaching At-Risk Students
The emphasis in at-risk learners is designed to help teachers better prepare to work with these special students. Although appropriate for any teacher with at-risk students in the classroom, this emphasis is especially designed for teachers in non-traditional or alternative settings.
UMKC — Ph.D. Urban Leadership and Policy Studies in Education
The interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Urban Leadership and Policy Studies in Education (ULAPSIE) prepares individuals to serve in a number of educational settings and in a wide variety of capacities. Graduates go on to secure positions as leaders in schools and school districts, administrators in higher education institutions, and as university faculty teaching undergraduate and graduate students and conducting their own research.
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Community LINC provides transitional housing for homeless families in the Kansas City area. Our mission is to develop self-sufficient families and communities. The mission of the program is to help these families become self-sufficient by providing the tools they need to break the cycle of homelessness in their lives. With the advocacy and support of the family coaches and budgeters of Community LINC, our residents are required to reduce or eliminate debt; and establish and maintain a savings account so that home ownership or other permanent housing become real options.
Phone: (816) 531-3727
St. Louis Region
Big Brothers and Sisters of Eastern Missouri
The mission of BBBS is to provide a mentor for every child who wants and needs one.
Tel: (314) 361-5900
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Covenant House Missouri (CHMO) exists to assist homeless, runaway and at-risk youth to enable them to become more independent, productive and contributing members of society. Our focus is on youth ages, 16-21, who are not in the custody of the state or the juvenile justice system. CHMO works daily to empower young adults to live life to their fullest potential, providing a full suite of programs and services including: Mobile Street Outreach, Emergency Shelter, Rites of Passage, Support Services.
Contact: Kristi Sobbe, Community Liaison, tel: (314) 450-7667
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Discovering Options is a 501c3 charitable organization that provides children with comprehensive, supportive and enriching after school programming that empowers at-risk children to discover a world of options.
Contact: Charmaine Smith, Executive Director, tel: (314) 721-8116
Missouri Calendar of Events,
Conferences & Workshops
Midwest Symposium for Leadership in Behavior Disorders (MSLBD) Conference — Effectiveness and Efficiency: Doing More With Less
February 25-27, 2010
Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Kansas City, MO
This year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Dean L. Fixsen, whose keynote address will be "Faster, Better... Cheaper?"
Pertinent Links for Missouri At-Risk Education
Contact Information for
Missouri's NAREN Coordinator
Please contact Kristin Drummond at kristin.drummond@park.edu if you have at-risk education news pertinent to Missouri that you wish placed on the website.
