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21st Annual At-Risk Youth National Forum - School and Community: Working Together as a Comprehensive Approach to Dropout Prevention
Submitted by NationalService... on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 14:27
You are invited to attend the 21st Annual At-Risk Youth National FORUM, “School and Community: Working Together as a Comprehensive Approach to Dropout Prevention,” to be held Sunday, February 15, 2009, to Wednesday, February 18, 2009, at the Kingston Plantation in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
February 15-18, 2009 - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; http://www.dropoutprevention.org/conferen/conferen.htm#2009_At-Risk_Youth
This year's FORUM is designed to enhance the leadership skills of all adults who are seeking to strengthen interventions among school, community, and families, especially to assist those in at-risk situations.
During the FORUM, innovative, skilled presenters who have excellent ideas, proven programs, and evidence-based research will share in the areas of (1) workforce preparat ion, (2) literacy (helping struggling readers), (3) attendance/truancy, (4) teen pregnancy prevention, (5) after-school programs, (6) students with disabilities, (7) resiliency and (8) service-learning.
School & Community Working Together for Dropout Prevention
I would love to partner with an organization to help our community and school to provide our students with programs and knowledge to help prevent students from dropping out.
Our town is very rural and poverty is very evident. Our high school has one of the highest drop out rates in our county.
Literacy is extremely important to our community. I not only am a director of the first after school program but I am also a GED instructor. So, I really see the need for help in all of these areas that this grant provides.
Please provide my after school program with this opportunity to help our schools and community.
Thank you,
Brenda Webb
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