As you know, I serve on the Board of a Brooklyn-based charity, Children of the City and often write about this charity, education and our youth in my website, www.roccobasile.net, and this blog. The New York Giants' football star David Tyree is also on the Board, and he recently visited the kids during one of the Create Success program classes, which is an after school and/or summer program for kids. It's the only multi-service educational program of its kind and is fast becoming a model sought after by other agencies for their own after school program sites.
The program places priority on each student’s academic success with intense tutoring and help with their homework, which ends up being a connection with the student allows us the open door to provide them with other services such as counseling, or advocacy within the social systems like court. Some of the skills that the program achieves include:
Our goals are:
- Closing the academic skills gap;
- Displacing the poverty mentality;
- Providing the support and resources needed to help each child and youth complete their education so they can enter the workforce;
- Addressing social issues that discourage a child from focusing on their education.
The Create Success program also evaluates student performance using NYC Department of Education assessment tools which sowed that over the past three years 95 percent of the students tested improved several DRA levels; 20 percent increased an entire grade level; and all of the students expressed they felt more comfortable reading, more confident in their math skills.
In general this program helped the Children of the City kids develop positive outlooks for the success of their education and lives.
-- Rocco Basile
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