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It Takes A Community: On-Time Graduation For At-Risk Youth, Sheila L. Gray, Danielle A. Craig

National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference

Cultivating Youth is an at-risk student community agency and organization collaboration that provides opportunities to 1) attend leadership training and college level classes, 2) retrieve and receive duel credits to achieve graduation, and 3) directly apply learned life-skills and workforce preparation to applied experiences while building self- esteem.

It is a full circle approach to improve quality of life.

Engaging Parents For Student Achievement And Discipline Prevention, Grant Rivera

National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference

In this interactive workshop, participants will learn take-home strategies to better engage families and community stakeholders in critical school improvement processes such as student achievement and discipline prevention. Particular attention will be given to creating proactive, systemic solutions that better engage traditionally “disengaged families” and prevent chronically “at-risk” youth from falling through the cracks of the schoolhouse sidewalk.