Youth Leadership for College Access Programming
Youth Leadership for College Access in Schools and Community Based Organizations
CARA works with individual schools and community cased organizations (CBOs) to integrate youth leadership into their college access programming. It does this by training the youth leaders, providing coaching to adult staff as they integrate youth leader work into the structures and practices of a school or CBO, and connecting sites to one another to share best practices.
Youth Leader training is done in partnership with Goddard Riverside’s Options Institute, trainers to college counselors throughout New York City.
CARA’s work with Youth Leadership for College Access began with its support of the development of Student Success Centers, youth-led college access centers located on multi-school campuses. The first Student Success Center opened in NYC in 2009 as a result of a student-led organizing campaign to improve supports to New York City public school students who had college dreams but did not have the school-based supports to realize them.
Sites:
- Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE) at Flushing High School
- Bushwick Campus Student Success Center with Make the Road NY: Academy for Environmental Leadership, Academy for Urban Planning, Brooklyn School for Math and Research, Brooklyn School for Social Justice
- Brooklyn High School for Leadership and Community Service
- Brownsville Academy High School
- Central Park East High School
- East Side Community High School
- El Puente
- Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School with The Children’s Aid Society
- Girls for Gender Equity
- Harlem Renaissance High School
- High School for Fashion Industries
- Innovation Diploma Plus
- Jill Chaifetz Transfer High School
- Lane Campus Student Success Center with Cypress Hills LDC: Academy of Innovative Technology, Brooklyn Lab, Cypress Hills Collegiate Preparatory School, Multicultural High School
- North Queens Community High School
- Red Hook Initiative
- Sadie Nash Leadership Program
- South Asian Youth Network (SAYA!)
- Taft Campus Student Success Center with New Settlement Apartments: Bronx Collegiate Academy, Bronx High School of Medical Science, DreamYard Prep, Urban Academy High School for History and Citizenship for Young Men
- West Brooklyn Community High School
For more information of Youth Leadership for College Access programs contact Lori Chajet: lori.chajet@caranyc.org