COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM FOR LOW INCOME/ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS
Higher Heights Youth Empowerment Programs, Inc. presents "College Access Tech Program" that will combine academic components with career and college exploration, leadership development, and Microsoft Office Certification for 20 youth who are current juniors or seniors in high school in the Greater New Haven Area. This program is funded by the Workforce Alliance, Workforce Investment Board of South Central Connecticut.
The program has been designed in partnership with The Knowledge Network to improve college preparation and enrollment rates, decrease high school dropout rates, build work-readiness skills, and improve basic reading and math skills.
Program Start Date is September 8, 2009 and will run the entire school year.
Interested participants must complete the attached application and submit required attachments.
Students will be 2-3 times a week from 3:30pm - 5:30pm. Our Program Site is located at 246 Dixwell Ave in New Haven, CT.
Microsoft Office Certification will also benefit youth entering college. The certification itself is worth college credit. Furthermore, some of the best and well paid jobs for college students are those within the information technology department at universities and colleges.
The creation of the College Access Tech Program will continue to help us achieve our mission to change the lives of under-represented college bound students and Empower, Encourage, and Equip them to obtain a post-secondary education.
Each participant must meet the income eligibility requirements to participate. Please see below for details.
Please note: that our program is also available to non-income eligible students.
Contact Person:
Chaka Felder-McEntire
(203) 466-1228
Email: chakafelder@higherheightsyouth.com
Website: www.higherheightsyouth.com
For the past five years, Higher Heights YEP, Inc. has been a community based organization that has operated outside of the school system within the City of New Haven. To date, HHYEP has personally employed 47 young people, and provided college planning services to over 150 high school students and their parents. Our program efforts and outcomes have achieved great success. Each year we have had 100% graduation rate, 100% college acceptance rate, and 98% parent involvement rate.
We provide a host of services that consist of invaluable youth programs, such as college planning, test preparation, career planning, tutorial services, and seminars. Our curriculum is designed to assist adolescents help elevate the way they see themselves and to motivate them into becoming influential community builders.
A youth must meet each of the following criteria to be eligible for programs funded by WIA:
- Junior or Senior in High School
and
- Low income defined as 70% of the Lower Living Standard Income Level as follows:
Family Size Annual Family Income
1 $10,400
2 $15,469
3 $21,231
4 $26,208
5 $30,932
6 $36,170
For families larger than six persons, an amount equal to the difference between the six and five person family levels should be added to the six-person family income level for each additional person in the family.
and
An individual who is one or more of the following:
- Deficient in basic literacy skills
- A school dropout
- Homeless, a runaway or foster child
- Pregnant or a parent
- An offender
- An individual who requires additional assistance to complete an educational program, or to secure and hold employment including an individual with a disability
We are now accepting applications on a first-come first-serve basis.
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