Dropout Prevention - Local Solutions

 

When funding is short and programs continue to be cut, it's time to explore our local community resources and work together to solve this problem.  Please join the Skagit County Child and Family Consortium for our "Dropout Prevention - Local Solutions" forum.

During this forum, will explore the following topics:

• Dropout Rates - a brief overview of the problem and its impacts.
• The PASS (Pay for Actual Student Success) Act - an upcoming bill that will provide funding for schools to implement dropout prevention strategies.
• A Local Success Story -  Learn of one local district's program; how it started, lessons learned,strategies that have continued to improve their graduation rates, and tools could be replicated in other areas.
• Community Resources Available - Many community organizations provide resources to assist with school completion.  During the forum, we will highlight a few and provide information on several others.

  Please join us.

DATE: April 20, 2011
TIME: 9:00 - 10:30 AM
LOCATION:  Crossroads Covenant (351 Pease Road, Burlington)


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"Gangs Are A Symptom: Together We Can Heal" - Resource Roundtable

 

Last December, Fabian Debora of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles came and spoke to us, kicking off our "Gangs Are A Symptom; Together We Can Heal" Series. Momentum has been building in our own Skagit Valley around cutting-edge prevention and intervention efforts. Our voices are being heard from Yakima to Olympia, in newspapers and evening television. Skagit is emerging as a leader in gang prevention.

Now, we invite you and all teachers, social workers, service providers and leaders in the community to continue to come together in this two-part workshop facilitated by Chris Hoke, local gang pastor with Tierra Nueva, and leaders with the Skagit County Child and Family Consortium.

PART 1:
 On Wednesday, March 23, we will hear some stories from gang youth in our valley whose lives have turned around, then diagram this life arc of a migrant child and gang involved youth, identifying where these lives most need us, and where they are slipping through the cracks.

PART 2:

Come the following week, March 30, to Tierra Nueva and build on this diagram of a gang youth's life: in roundtable fashion we will identify all resources, organizations, and relationships into a seamless network of prevention and intervention.

Come be part of Washington's new model for community collaboration...to win our youth back from gangs.

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