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Portage Education Foundation

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Helpful Programs for At-Risk Youth

Class Components/Credit Recovery/Before/After School Programs 

  • Offer MVHS program during the summer to students receiving free/reduced lunches.
  • Special Ed in the building:  Academic Assistance class offering more time for assignments.

  • Fast ForWord and Read 180 programs for targeted reading intervention in addition to school-wide vocabulary instruction. 

  • After-school tutoring program available 4 days a week for all students.

  • Smaller class sizes (when possible). 
  • Personal attention in class and highly differentiated instruction by teachers who specialize in at-risk education.  
  • Block scheduling.
  • 4 terms equals 8 credits possible in one school year.  Students can also earn extra credits by working and participating in extracurricular opportunities.
  • After School Leadership Program on Tuesdays.
  • Field trips, guest speakers and community resources used in the class to offer a different way of learning.  
  • Free/Reduced breakfast/lunch program. 
  • Provide free daycare to students with children.
  • Work individually with Seniors to help determine their post-high school plans.
  • Assist in financial aid planning and college admission process.

Partnering/Support with Community Agencies 

  • Work with local Probation Officers to keep students enrolled and attending school. 
     
  • Partner with Y.O.U. to allow students the opportunity for credit recovery utilizing their NovaNET program.
  • Teen Age Parenting Class: Representatives from Boys & Girls Club visit weekly for healthy cooking ideas and other topics.
  • Community Mental Health, Elizabeth Upjohn Healing Center, Advocacy Services For Kids offering crisis intervention, anger management, substance abuse, conflict resolution and interpersonal difficulties.   
     
  • Work with the staff at KVCC's Student Success Center, and work to show to educate our students as to the opportunities available to them programs that KVCC has to offer within this center that are much like the "hand holding" we do here with our At-Risk students.