Pennsylvania
Clearing the way for learning
(Lancaster, PA) June 26, 2006 - Lincoln Middle School partners with agencies in a “community school” concept that helps kids cope with poverty, violence and other issues. Read how this program is helping the kids, the parents and the community.
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.
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.
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South Carolina
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.
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the story from WIS TV10 news
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
Kobans and Robbers
Chief Charles Austin
An obscure Japanese import, the Koban, is racing across America -- reducing crime and increasing safety along the way.
topVirginia
Vecinos Unidos turns ten
(Herndon, VA) April 24, 2007 - Vecinos Unidos, the Eisenhower Foundation's partner in replicating the Quantum Opportunities Program and Youth Safe Haven in Herndon, VA, celebrated it tenth anniversary.
Vecinos Unidos continues to address the educational needs of local youth and has worked with the Eisenhower Foundation since 2001.
Click here to read the article from the The Fairfax County Times.
Reintegration in the Land of the Rising Sun
(TOKYO, Japan) Feb.1, 2007 – In the early 1990s, the Eisenhower Foundation looked to Japan when developing the Koban – Youth Safe Haven model. Now Japan is looking to the Foundation for help reintegrating prisoners into society.
Jennie Amison, Director of Replications for Previously Incarcerated Persons at the Eisenhower Foundation and Executive Director of Gemeinschaft Home spent two days lecturing and speaking with officials in Japan about the successes of the reentry program she runs in Harrisonburg, VA.
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Overcoming All Odds
Fabian Perez
(Herndon, VA) June 15, 2006 - "When Herndon’s Quantum Opportunities Program, a four-year after school tutoring program for Herndon High School students with below average grades, was launched, no one, not even the program’s founding director, thought that they would be able to help their students turn their academic lives around." Now 17 of 20 students are graduating. Read about the tremendous success.
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.
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.
High School Seniors Prepare to Say Good Bye
Leigh Scott and Talesha Burke
(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.
Herndon Youth Safe Haven Offering Alternative to Gangs
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, 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.
Previously, Congressman Wolf had joined Eisenhower Foundation staff, Herndon police officials and students from Herndon High School to celebrate the opening of the Quantum Opportunities Program there.
Above, Congressman Wolf and Dr. Alan Curtis, Eisenhower CEO, discuss how the Quantum Opportunities Program will help Herndon's high-school youth with its four-year, computer-based model.
Below, Some of the youth being helped by the Quantum Opportunities program.
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
Washington
Tukwila's After-school Program
Closes Gap
(Tukwila, WA) Feb. 24, 2001 - The South County Journal reports on the full-service community school in Tukwila.
Offering more learning opportunities is the best way to improve student achievement, says Superintendent Michael Silver.
Click here to read the article.
Wisconsin
Bringing programs that work to Milwaukee
(Milwaukee) July 8, 2006 - In his column in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Gregory Stanford explains how the Eisenhower Foundation is hoping to address what he calls Milwaukee's open sores, including - the high poverty rate, the black-white chasm, the uptick in crime, and the towering high school dropout rate. Read the editorial.
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Alabama
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.
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.
Read
the story in the Birmingham News
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.
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.
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.
District of Columbia
National Cluster Workshop Gathers Problem-Solvers from Across the Country
Leila McDowell, Director for Capacity-Building Replications, helps participants to become more media savvy -- and thus more effective with members of the news media.
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.
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 21st 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.
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.
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
Hawai'i
Commentary: Proven Programs Can Ease Our Problems
Michelle Takemoto
(Honolulu) June 13, 2006 - "The Eisenhower Foundation has worked for 25 years to bring solutions to the many problems facing this country's disadvantaged communities. Now, it hopes to bring more of its solutions to Hawai'i." Read Michelle Takemoto's commentary.
Iowa
Proven programs can give the poor chance at success
(Des Moines, IA) June 28, 2006 - The graduation rate for Des Moines is higher than the national average and climbing. For those students who are at risk of not graduating, there is hope in a proposed partnership between the YMCA and the Eisenhower Foundation. Read what this partnership will mean for the youth of Des Moines.
A summer School Less Ordinary in D.M.
(BILL NEIBERGALL/THE REGISTER)
Mike Smith, 14, tries to spell a word during a word game at Harding Middle School's summer school program on Tuesday.
(Des Moines, IA) July 19, 2006 - "Early in the morning, 40 or more east-side kids in Des Moines tumble out of their summer slumber and hop on the bus or travel otherwise to Harding Middle School." This Full Service Community School is helping kids raise their grades. Read the story.
Read what a previous evaluation said about the impact of the program.Maryland
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.
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.
Mississippi
In just six months, young people's lives are being changed, for the better
Staff member Myron Evans assists Micael Taylor with Algebra
(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.
Health Clinic Opens at Jackson Full-Service School
(Jackson, MS) April 14, 2007 – In a major step towards the implementation of a Full-Service Community School in Jackson, Mississippi, a new health clinic was opened at Lanier High School.
In partnership with the school, the Jackson Medical Mall and the Eisenhower Foundation, the clinic will target middle and elementary students from the Jackson Public Schools Lanier feeder pattern to identify health, social and environmental factors that might adversely affect these children’s ability to learn and be successful adults.
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Click here for local NBC News coverage of the event.
New Hampshire
Building stronger youth
Graduates of the Quantum Opportunities Program traveled to Mississippi in May for their graduation trip. Students and advisors helped with the ongoing clean-up of the area affected by last year’s devastating hurricanes.
(Dover, NH) July 21, 2006 - Since 1994, Seymour Osman Community Center (SOCC) has served as a home away from home for Dover youth. Not only do the youth's grades improve by participating in the project, but they also learn the importance of service. Read more about the success of the programs.
Nashua Youth Safe Haven Visits DC
Program Director Debbie Fraser (left) and Senator Judd Greg (center rear) with YSH youths
Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) welcomes youths from the Nashua Youth Safe Haven Program. This is the second group of program youths to visit Washington DC this summer. Many of the youths are recent immigrants, who are learning first hand about their new home.
Quantum Youth Help Katrina Victims
Liz Puchacz, Brandy Barshaw, Teresa Chapman, Cory Nachampassak, Alex Goodwin, Joe Caproni, Nathan Marsolais, Mark Baud, Chris Neslusan
(Dover, NH) June 28, 2006 - Members of the Quantum Opportunities Program recently journeyed from Dover, NH to Mississippi to construct and deliver storage pods to hurricane victims. Read the story.
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.
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.
Brand-New Safe Haven to Benefit Nashua Youth
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.
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.
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.
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.