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No Doubt About the Success of the Quantum Opportunities Program

(Dover, NH) June 2, 2006 - There can be no doubt about the success of the Quantum Opportunities Program in Dover New Hampshire, according to an Op-Ed that appeared in Seacoast Online. Not only did the original group of students benefit, but local sources provided funding for additional students to participate. Read about the exciting outcomes of this four year program.

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New Hampshire Quantum Youth to Lend a Hand for Katrina Victims

(Dover, NH ) May 29, 2006 - Four years ago, a group of at-risk students, with a low probability of graduating high school, joined the Quantum Opportunities Program. Now they are graduating and several are heading to Waveland Mississippi to lend a hand in the Katrina cleanup. Read about the success of these young people.

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New Quantum Opportunities Program in Baltimore looks at the Success Seen in Herndon, VA

(Baltimore) May 22, 2006 - As preparations are underway to open a new Quantum Opportunities Program in the Sandtown neighborhood of Baltimore, the staff looks at the successes seen in similar programs, including one in the Northern Virginia city of Herndon. Click here to read the story by Gregory Kane of the Baltimore Sun.

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Youth Center Celebrates Year of Progress

Staff member Katie Canatsey and Joseph Colgan

(Herndon) April 13, 2006 - The Eisenhower sponsored Youth Safe Haven in Herndon, Virginia, is celebrating its first anniversary serving a diverse population of local and immigrant youths. Read the story here.

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Staff member Myron Evans assists Micael Taylor with Algebra

In just six months, young people's lives are being changed, for the better

(Jackson) April 10, 2006 - Normally, the four year Quantum Opportunities Program requires at least a year to begin having a measurable impact on student attitudes toward education and their grades. However, it appears that Quantum students in Jackson, Mississippi are developing new, positive attitudes toward school, after less than six months. Read the story here.

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Eisenhower program forges alliance with police, college students to offer safe after-school instruction

(Birmingham) March 20, 2006 - Students from the University of Alabama, Birmingham and Samford University have joined the civilian and police at the Youth Safe Haven in Southtown, to provide academic enrichment for 50 young people.

To read more about this program, click here.

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Planning for a Delancey Street Expansion in Baltimore is announced

(Baltimore) February 24, 2006 - Planning has begun for a Delancey Street Replication in Baltimore. "The Delancey Street Project is designed to help communities replicate a successful program implemented in San Francisco to help ex-offenders called the Delancey Street Project. The ex-offender program is educational and entrepreneurial based."

To read more about the Baltimore replication, click here.

To read more about Delancey Street, click here.

 

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Leigh Scott and Talesha Burke

High School Seniors Prepare to Say Good Bye

(Herndon) February 13, 2006 - Quantum Opportunities after school program comes to an end as Herndon High School seniors prepare for graduation. Read more about the success of the program in the Herndon Connection Article.

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Nonprofit groups work to combat high re-arrest rates

(Charelston-AP) February 20, 2006 - A coalition of non-profit and faith-based groups is working with the Eisenhower Foundation to establish a substance abuse treatment and career training program in Charleston, SC.

To read the story from WIS TV10 news, click here.

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City gets new tool in fight against crime

(Birmingham) February 19, 2006 - The director of the Bimingham Urban League reminds city officials that in addition to their new Cease Fire program, the city has a new Youth Safe Haven - Police Ministation program that is the 'Right Tool' to deal with crime in the Southtown Public Housing Complex just east of the University of Alabama at Birmingham's campus.

To read the story in the Birmingham News, click here.

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Foundation to Help Charleston's Ex-Offenders Succeed

(Charleston) February 14, 2006 - With property set aside on an old military base in North Charleston, S.C., the Eisenhower Foundation is set to start one of five new Delancey Street replication sites across the country. The Charleston site will provide free, long-term educational and vocational training and substance abuse rehabilitation programs, which are much needed in an area of South Carolina where close to 1,000 prisoners are released each year, many of whom have substance abuse problems.

To read an article from the Charleston Post and Courier about the city's efforts to help ex-offenders, including the new Eisenhower program, click here.

To learn more about Delancey Street, click here.

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Full-Service Educators Gathered to Share Successes, Plan for the Future

Recently, the Foundation brought educators and parents from full-service community schools across the country together in western Pennsylvania. The East Allegheny Middle School, an Eisenhower Foundation-funded full-service school, were gracious hosts to our Sixth National Cluster Workshop. The theme of the workshop was "Sustaining our Work-Creating Structures of Permanence." Around 50 participants shared their experiences and listened to speakers from other successful community schools.

To read an article from the McKeesport Daily News about the workshop, click here.

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Foundation Offering Hope, Opportunities in the South

New Youth Safe Haven-Police Ministations

in Birmingham and Tuskegee, Ala; Quantum

Debuts in Jackson, Miss. and Birmingham

Students from Lanier High School in Jackson, Miss., are the new beneficiaries of Eisenhower's tested and proven Quantum Opportunities Program, which uses computerized tutorials to help high-school students catch up -- and stay -- in school.

 

An hourly stipend doesn't hurt, either.  Columnist Eric Stringfellow writes about this unique, four-year, educational enrichment program for ninth- to 12th-graders in the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.

 

For an additional report on the brand-new, first-ever Quantum Opportunities Program in Jackson, please click here.

 

A week later, Quantum Opportunities began at the first of the school year in Birmingham, Ala. at the city's Urban League headquarters -- and the city also received a new Youth Safe Haven-Police Ministation at the SouthTown housing community.

 

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Youth Safe Haven-

Police Ministations

also grow in South

With new Safe Haven-Police Ministations in D.C., New Hampshire, Virginia and elsewhere, the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation continues to expand its after-school youth-development initiatives in the South -- with first-ever Safe Haven-Police Ministation sites in Tuskegee and Birmingham, Ala.

 

To read the Montgomery Advertiser's report about our most recent success in Tuskegee, click here.

 

For an account in the Tuskegee News, please click here.

 

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Encouraging Words from Baltimore

About Eisenhower Aid to Ex-Offenders

Kudos came our way Wednesday, Oct. 12, when Baltimore Sun columnist Gregory Kane wrote a fine profile of our foundation -- a 25-year history in 500 words or less.

 

Kane focused on Eisenhower's efforts to replicate its anti-prison recidivism program in Baltimore -- where 59 percent of Maryland's parolees will return upon their release this year. Should you like to know a little more about us, and our Delancey Street Program for ex-convicts, please click here.

 

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Nashua, NH

The Nashua, NH PAL (Police Athletic League) opens a new Youth Safe Haven: from left to right is Debora Pignatelli, Executive Councilor; Matt Lahey, Assistant to Sen. Judd Gregg; Chief Timothy Hefferan of the Nashua Police Department; Mayor Bernie Streeter; Joseph Guliano, Superintendent of Schools;  Joseph Laplante, Nashua PAL Board of Directors; Christopher Faye, Eisenhower Foundation; Mike Green, NH National Guard. Cutting the

ribbon is Aldonys Reyonoso.

Brand-New Safe Haven
to Benefit Nashua Youth
Students in Nashua, NH, have a new place to go after school – a new Youth Safe Haven sponsored by the Eisenhower Foundation at the Police Athletic League there. It will be a cooperative effort involving local police, the Nashua School District, the Nashua Housing Authority, and the New Hampshire National Guard.

Many local notables turned out for the ribbon cutting in March, including the mayor, police chief, and others. For the story, please click here.

 

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U.S. Senator Judd Gregg was on hand at the Seymour Osman Community Center in Dover to receive the Champion of Children award. The Eisenhower Foundation funds programs in three New Hampshire communities: Rochester, Dover, and Somersworth.   See Full Story.

 

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Leila McDowell, Director for Capacity-Building Replications, helps participants to become more media savvy -- and thus more effective with members of the news media.

 

National Cluster Workshop Gathers

Problem-Solvers from Cross-Country

The Eisenhower Foundation theme of “Multiple Solutions for Multiple Problems” was on demonstration at the famed Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. in June as the foundation hosted more than 60 partners from around the country to the National Cluster Workshop on Youth Safe Haven and Quantum Opportunities Program replication initiatives.

 

While the three-day workshop was designed to focus on youth safe haven/police ministations on the Quantum Opportunities program for high school youth, participants also took part in panel discussions on grant writing, media training, effective youth development strategies and better policing in public housing.

 

“These people represent the front-line of Eisenhower programs around the country,” said Johnnie A. Gage, Eisenhower Foundation COO. “The forum gives participants the opportunity to share their experiences and problem-solve," he said. "We want to act as a clearinghouse to impart information and discuss lessons learned.” Please click here for scenes from the workshop.

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Herndon, Va.

                                                                                            Photo by Robert L. Bailey

Congressman Frank Wolf holds a $75,000 “check” from Eisenhower CEO Alan Curtis, left. At right is Vecinos Unidos president Chris Griffin and Herndon vice-mayor Darryl Smith, far right. 

 
Herndon Youth Safe Haven
Offering Alternative to Gangs
HERNDON, Va. (April 1) – The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, with the help of U.S. Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.), opened a new Youth Safe Haven here today – with the twin goals of improving academics and giving young people an alternative to street gangs.  For the full story, click here.

 

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Previously, Congressman Wolf joined Eisenhower Foundation staff, Herndon police officials and students from Herndon High School to celebrate the opening of the Quantum Opportunities Program there.

 

Above left, foundation president Alan Curtis stands with some of the Herndon youth enrolled in the Quantum Opportunities Program. The program begins in 9th grade, and continues though graduation from high school.

 

Above right, Congressman Wolf and Curtis discuss how the Quantum Opportunities Program will help Herndon's high-school youth with its four-year, computer-based model.

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Reggie serves potluck with Cpl. Alfred Stewart at the Carver Terrace housing community in northeast DC.

 

Reginald Grant is one of many people who make Eisenhower Foundation programs run on time. Reggie is site director for the Carver Terrace Youth Safe Haven-Police Ministation in Washington, DC, as well as its Quantum Opportunities Program. To find out why Reggie is so remarkable, please click here.

 

 

Officer Triano and his family.

 

It takes a special kind of police officer, like Tony Triano, to work with kids as their primary job. To find out more about one of the dedicated officers that have worked with Eisenhower Youth Safe Haven / Police Ministation programs, click here.

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Officers frisk handcuffed suspects as neighbors look on.

Action-packed dedication underscores . . .
Urgent Need
for Safe Haven
Residents and patrons of Carver Terrace Community Center gathered outdoors on Saturday, April 16, to dedicate it as the Patsy B. Hartsfield Center – as Mayor Anthony Williams’ mother, Virginia Williams, prepared to sing “God Bless America.”
 
It was a beautiful day to celebrate a remarkable public-private partnership effort between the Eisenhower Foundation and Telesis Corp., despite the early threat of rain. The Rev. Terry O. Corbin – brother of the late “Miss Patsy” Hartsfield – prepared to make his introduction while about 60 audience members enjoyed the fine weather. 
 
Then, about 30 feet away at the intersection of 21^st and Maryland NE, three police cruisers broke the stillness of the morning by converging at once, tackling three young pedestrians and handcuffing them, face-down on the ground.                        
                
“It was as if it was staged. People asked me: ‘Did you hire actors to do that?’” said D.J. Ervin, an Eisenhower analyst. “The timing was amazing.”
 
It was as if circumstances converged to underline – in bold – the urgent need for the Youth Safe Haven that Eisenhower established at Carver Terrace two years ago. 
 
For the full story, please click here.

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Carver Terrace Opening
a Boon for Northeast DC
With much fanfare and song, the Eisenhower Foundation opened the nation's newest Youth Safe Haven-Police Ministation in Washington D.C.'s Carver Terrace complex in 2003.
 
The gathering, covered by both of Washington's daily newspapers, attracted community members including Virginia E. Hayes Williams, mother of Washington D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams, police officials and Eisenhower Foundation staff members. View slideshow
 
Youth Center Offers, Haven, Hope
Program Aims to Unite Police, Community
Allen Lengel, The Washington Post

A Safe Haven Begins Where Maryland Avenue Ends
Adrienne T. Washington, The Washington Times

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New York Times Opines

on Quantum Opportunities

 

For teens in poor communities, The Eisenhower Foundation is replicating the Quantum Opportunities Program, for at-risk teenagers that has won the praises of education experts, policymakers and The New York Times. The program offers academic tutoring, computer based learning, stipends and money towards college. Initially, Quantum will be replicated in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Virginia.

 

View our Replication Manual for more information

 

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Positive Youth Development

and the Youth Safe Haven

-Police Ministation Program

The service components of the Youth Safe Haven/Mini-Police Station programs are based largely on a theoretical framework known as Positive Youth Development, which focuses on the developmental needs of youth and building the assets that are required in order to make a successful transition to adulthood. Read our recent report on this program which provides an overview of positive youth development theory and shows how it is related to major features or strategies that serve as a foundation for effective programs.

 

 

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Full-Service

Community School

Replications

 

 

"Community schools" or "full-service community schools" are partnering with private non-profit agencies to provide whatever services people need, from GED and job training classes to family therapy, homework help, and after-school programs.

 

Click here for the full article.

 

 

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Effective Capacity Building
"Thirty six months with a group is the threshold time period for good outcomes" finds the Eisenhower Foundation in a new report Lessons from the Street, an assessment of capacity building and technical assistance provided by the foundation to over 80 non-profits during the past ten years.

 

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Board member Charles Austin

 

What Works
Time reporter Barry Hillenbrand visits Columbia, South Carolina to report on the highly successful community policing and youth safe haven programs that reduce crime, salvage lives and create good relationships between police and the communities they serve. See "Kobans and Robbers" on April 20, 2001, Time .

 

 

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Ex-offenders and organizers convene the first national

conference of Previously Incarcerated Persons at Delancey Street in San Francisco.

 

Ex-Offenders Find a Voice

at First-Ever National Summit

In November 2005, the Eisenhower Foundation, in partnership with the Delancey Street Foundation and more than 20 other organizations around the nation, hosted a forum in San Francisco that brought together the concerns of previously incarcerated persons in America with the warnings of President Dwight Eisenhower a half-century ago.

 

Eisenhower's farewell address, drafted by his brother Milton, warned against the "military-industrial complex." Today, most observers agree America has a "prison-industrial complex" -- in which huge government prison-building expenditures are made as job-generating economic development grants to rural communities, disproportionately white.

 

In response to the prison-industrial complex, the Delancey Street  Foundation and the Eisenhower Foundation seek to create a national movement that empowers previously incarcerated persons, advocates for the same rights people have in other industrial democracies, expands our replications of Delancey Street, and significantly reduces the American recidivism rate.

For more on the first national summit of Previously Incarcerated Persons,  please click here

 

Amy Goodman Interviews Clare Short

In Recent Democracy Now! Episode

Crusading humanitarian Clare Short, a member of the British Parliament, has been fighting against international issues of hunger and poverty during her entire career in government. A contributor to Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense, Short visited fellow contributor Amy Goodman at her Firehouse studio to tape a segment of Democracy Now! recently in New York. To read a transcript of the exchange, click here.  To watch the segment (at 128k stream) click here. 

 

Eisenhower Principals

Get the Ear of Congress

Poverty, unemployment, poor education, racism, and the highest incarceration rates in the world remain American dilemmas that diminish the credibility and "soft power" of the U.S. in the eyes of other nations.

Yet cost-effective solutions exist, as illustrated by the Congressional testimony of two Eisenhower Foundation principals.

Testifying before the Congressional Black Caucus, Eisenhower President Alan Curtis concluded the issue is not lack of knowledge, but lack of will. "We already know what works for the truly disadvantaged and need to replicate it to a scale equal to the dimensions of the problem." For Dr. Curtis' presentation, click here.

Christopher L. Fay, Director for Delancey Street Replications at Eisenhower, addressed federal sub-contracting of prison workers to benefit private-sector industries, most of which use inexpensive labor to manufacture cheap goods on the inside. Fay suggested a better way to teach prison workers in ways that benefit the prisoner, as well as the society to which many will return.  For Mr. Fay's testimony, click here.

 

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