ASSOCIATION FOR HABILITAION AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED
Transition for Youth with Disabilities
Contact: Mary Berry (215) 885-2060
The AHEDD program expands upon the agency’s role as a change agent in the delivery of vocational rehabilitation services, serving as a resource through which Philadelphia School District students with disabilities may be exposed to and integrated into the workforce. AHEDD partners with local businesses, government, and other community organizations to provide students with mentoring, goal development, workplace exploration, summer employment and/or programming, and independent living opportunities and experiences.

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA, INC.
The Junior Staff Career Development Program (Jr. Staff)
Contact: Diane Datcher (215) 735-8818
The Junior Staff Career Development Program is a year-round education and training program designed to assist youth in exploring careers in the youth services and/or human services industries. Students will have opportunities to develop and strengthen academic and employment skills, perform service learning and explore how personal interests and needs correlate to a career in the human service field.

CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES
Project Success
Contact: Amy Stoner (215) 624-5920
Project Success, operating on the philosophy that teen parents do best when they are provided with the opportunity to fulfill their potential, provides expecting and parenting teens of both genders with academic support, parenting and life skills, job training, and work experience opportunities. Students participate three days a week after school hours and for six weeks in the summer working towards improving their standardized test scores, developing healthy and appropriate parenting skills, and working with school age children in after school and summer camp programs.

COMMUNITES IN SCHOOLS
Freedom Schools
Contact: Erika Woods (215) 875-3739
The Freedom School project immerses students in a literacy-based, academic curriculum emphasizing community empowerment and social justice. Students participate in structured reflection designed to foster a positive sense of self and a spirit of community. A host of activities, including, but not limit to conflict resolution, anti-violence, service learning, advocacy, arts, culture, and recreation. Each site, typically sponsored by a grass-roots community based organization, has a site director, project coordinator, and college-aged student leaders who deliver the bulk of the programming. All staff members receive a mandatory training at the former Alex Haley farms in Clinton, Tennessee. Mentoring is a critical component to the success of the program.

CONGRESO
Youth Development Project
Contact: Chery Blue (215) 229-4040 x1419
The program is specifically designed to provide a full array of educational and employment opportunities to youth between 14 and 18 years old. This includes a comprehensive, integrated and contextually-based array of year round activities promoting enhanced academic achievement, awareness and readiness for post-secondary education, career preparation, work readiness and connection to employment. Youth Leaders work as mentors with elementary school students through Congreso’s Beacon School Program and 21st Century Community Learning Center activities.

THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA
Youth Leadership After School Project
Contact: Joe Brown (215) 686-5372
The students participating in the Youth Leadership After School Project receive homework assistance, computer literacy training, library skills development activities, and enrichment programs at various community branches of the Free Library. In addition to the after school program, weekly cultural and educational activities as well as computer and technology activities are presented weekly. Participants serve as Teen Leadership Assistants, working with branch staff to deliver services to younger children in the drop-in after school programs.

GREATER PHILADELPHIA URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION
The BEST Program
Contact: Vivian Norton (215) 851-1764
In partnership with a variety of arts and cultural institutions, fifty youth participate in work-based learning opportunities for a maximum of fifteen hours per week focused on leadership development and contextual learning. Youth will also attend monthly training sessions covering such topics as peer mentoring, conflict resolution, college preparation, cultural diversity and citizenship, team building, and career exploration.

Project REACH 2000 City Wide
(Resources, Education, and Awareness for Community Health)
Contact: Charlita Hardy: (215) 765-5504
Project REACH 2000, Youth Leadership Training Institute is a year round education, career development, leadership training and recreation after school program for youth in high school between the ages of 14 and 18 years old. Intellectual development and academic achievement are at the core of this project and activities include: tutorial/homework assistance, computer workshops, college exploration, life skills development, job readiness and occupational skills training. Reach 2000 is designed to improve academic performance, provide exposure to labor market orientation and ensure the development of interpersonal, social and life skills to enhance the leadership and civic responsibility of its participants.

INDOCHINESE AMERICAN COUNCIL
PAY (Program for the Advancement of Youth)
Contact: Le-Quyen Vu: (215) 457-0272
The Program for the Advancement of Youth (PAY) will provide services to in-school youth, ages 14 through 21. The targeted neighborhoods are Logan, Olney, Nicetown and Oaklane. High Schools targeted are Olney, Martin Luther King, Cardinal Dougherty and Multicultural Academy Charter Schools. The major program objectives are to support academic achievement, connect educational skills with actual work and to enable students to meet graduation and promotion service learning requirements. In addition, the program provides education and support in the areas of career development and general life skills. The program will not only enable students to develop basic education and valuable employment skills, but also to establish healthy relationships with their teachers and peers.

IMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION
Community Builders
Contact: Yvette Anderson (215) 739-1600
The Community Builders program is a collaboration between Impact Services Corporation and Mastbaum Vocational HS and Edison/Fareira HS to provide a year round program for 30 at-risk juniors and seniors, assessed as being basic skills deficient and requiring additional assistance to complete school and secure employment. The program addresses the 10 WIA, required elements by combining basic skills instruction, housing construction and development, leadership skills, career exploration, and job readiness training and placement. Youth combine classroom experience at their high school with hands-on experiential learning at construction worksites.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ATHLETE ASSOCIATION
ISAA After School Program
Contact: Fred Dukes, III (215) 751-8211
The ISAA provides student athletes with the academic enrichment and services needed to graduate from high school and enter college successfully. Participants in the after school program receive tutoring in Math and English, SAT preparation classes, study skills workshops, computer and technology training, mentoring, counseling, and intervention, work readiness and career development seminars and experiences, as well as the opportunity to participate in various sports events and contests.

LULAC
Pathways to Engineering
Contact: Steve Hoke (215) 423-4811
Pathways to Engineering consists of a six week summer component plus an academic year middle school initiative to increase the number of Latino students who complete high school and go on to post-secondary education. A cohort of 25 students participate in the program which consists of structured science and engineering activities taught by Latino faculty at the Moore School of Engineering. Pathways to Engineering consists of three components: 1) hands-on learning, 2) exposure to technologically sophisticated workplaces, and 3) workshops to help students establish a plan for making post-secondary education a reality.


LUTHERAN SETTLEMENT HOUSE
Carroll/Lutheran Settlement House Learning
Contact: Gwen Craig: (215) 235-1350 x3111
Charles Carroll High School and Lutheran Settlement House are partnering in two service-learning activities for a year round model with 20 slots each trimester and a goal of 60 students by the end of the year. Students in Activity I will learn how to repair and refurbish used computers through Lutheran Settlement House’s Kensington Computer Reuse Project. Students in Activity II will participate in health internships at Temple University’s Children’s Hospital, where they will be introduced to the use of technology and the range of occupations in the health care field. Students will participate as members of a supervised team, and receive 12 months of follow-up support services. Each project will include on-going reflection and review with an instructor and culminate in two weeks of reflection, portfolio review, and cover letters, resume writing, job search and final presentation.

PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Contact: Gail Bober (215) 951-4700
Deaf and Hard of Hearing is a two-part project between the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (PSD) and Lincoln High School (LHS). Each of the projects will utilize a Career Applied Academics method, which uses the world of work and its supporting components to teach math, reading, and other academic skill as they pertain to daily living activities.

PHILDELPHIA FUTURES
Youthworks College Bound
Contact: Wendy Glazer (215) 790-1666 x22
The Youthworks College Bound (YCB) program represents a unique collaboration between a college and one or more high school partners. Students participate in day and residential programs on college campuses where they are engaged in project-based learning to enhance academic skills and improve post-secondary readiness. The premise of this program is that the experience of coming to learn on a college campus everyday will have a significant impact on students’ view of themselves and their potential to be college bound. This in turn, will effect their academic motivation and performance when they return to high school.


PHILADELPHIA HOUSING AUTHORITY (PHA)
Skills for Life (SFL)
Contact: Virginius Bragg (215) 684-4000
The Skills for Life (SFL) Program provides six weeks of work experiences during the summer and 42 weeks of tutoring, career exploration, mentoring, and counseling during the school year. SFL commits resources for 200 public and assisted housing youth, ages 14-15, and maintains a commitment to them throughout their four years in high school. Youth participate, through programs with the Greater Philadelphia Federation of Settlements and the Boy Scouts Career Exploration Program in work-based learning, intensive technology training, career exploration and service-learning projects. The goal of the program is to increase the number of PHA youth who go on to college.

PLEASE TOUCH MUSEUM
ACES (Achievement through Community Service, Employment, and Skill Building)
Contact: Jennifer Arnold (215) 963-0667 x3107
ACES is a work-based learning and enrichment program for Philadelphia high school youth with the least opportunities for support. Students are recruited from four High Schools; Lincoln, Edison, West and South Philadelphia. The program provides comprehensive services that enable students to successfully transition from high school to higher education, meaningful employment, and vocational training. ACES incorporates the 10 essential Workforce Investment Ace elements in an overall strategy that can be adapted to meet the needs of the participating student. Students participate each week in a full day of work-based learning at the Please Touch Museum where they learn skills related to early-childhood development and workplace readiness.

ST. JOSEPH’S UNIVERSITY
Start on Success Program (SOS)
Contact: Claude Schrader (215) 875-3674
The Success on Success Program increases the career potential of high school students with disabilities by offering paid internships. SOS encourages students to discover that they have the skills needed to be successful in the workplace, that they can be self-supporting, and that they can look forward to a future of independence. The SOS Program works with 50 in-school students with disabilities at Overbrook High School and University City High School. This program works to create partnerships with schools, colleges and universities, business and industry, the disabled community and government to accomplish its objectives.


THE WEST PHILADELPHIA PARTNERSHIP
Center for Career Development
Contact: Amy Thomas(215) 386-5757
The West Philadelphia Partnership is a program that is explicitly designed to impact the entire curriculum and all students representing grades 9-12 in six participating School District of Philadelphia Small Learning Communities (SLC’s). Each SLC will have internships clustered in a particular field or industry related to the SLC’s theme. These internships will be a “laboratory” where teachers can get feedback about the student’s performance and apply feedback to shaping and refining each SLC curricula. Through this interconnectedness and focus on specific SLCs, they will hone in on specific needs of the students and create a replicable model for years to come. This program is conducted in partnership with West Philadelphia High School, University City High School and the University of Pennsylvania.