At Risk Youth Get Jobs in Local Communities

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We are going into our second year of training at risk youth in high school how to create a resume, interview, job skills and job success. We patner with Wissip, Work is Success and local businesses to get paid internships which Ihave A Dream Foundation-Los Angeles pays for during the summer for 10 weeks. Our robust team has already worked with theses students since 3rd grade to raise not only them, but their communities out of poverty. We have helped 7000 students and their families for 35 years

As we sponsor entire grade levels at the most at risk schools, we stay with these students that we call 'Dreamers' all the way to and through college and help the graduates to find jobs and succeed. Our new program which teaches our high school students how to succeed at work, helps them to end intergenerational poverty in their families and in their communities.

We have been helping at risk youth for 35 years so we have comprehensive metrics on metriculation rates for high school into and then through college as well as tracking their career success through our alumni. We use Civicore to track every single student and we also do case management in order to stabalize the entire family. We have MOU's with dstricts in order to access grades and all other pertinent information on each student. We also had an ROI analysis conducted that shows that for every dollar donated, three dollars is returned in taxes, far less incarceration, far less need for welfare and other markers.