Description of Service

School-To-Success is a life purpose, career planning and computer technology-training program. The program offers training in the areas of life purpose, creative goal setting, career planning and career development. These services are provided through the School-To-Success curriculum, career counseling, and career coaching programs. School-To-Success serves at-risk and disadvantaged middle school to high school and college students who do not know what they want to be or do after high school and at various points in their life.

The School-To-Success curriculum has eight success steps and was designed to help students develop basic computer skills for school and work, answer the question “What’s after high school for me?” and create a five year plan for future success. The curriculum was designed to meet the needs of parents, guardians, schools, colleges, universities, faith-based organizations, community based organizations and employers in the area of career planning and development.

Our mission is to help middle school through high school and college students  (ages 12-18) discover their purpose in life, set clear goals and create plans to take their personal and professional life to a higher level in the areas of service, leadership and entrepreneurship. Our mission responds to two major areas of concern:

1.  More than 50 percent of all high school seniors do not know what they want to be or do after graduation. They lack clear goals for their future.

2.  Career planning, career development and career counseling are inadequate with a counselor-student ratio of 1-to-490 on the low end and 1-to-994 on the high end in California. Other states have a similar problem with different statistics.

Activities to accomplish our mission will be conducted as follows:

1. Trained education and career professionals will make presentations at

Parent-Teacher Organization meetings, service clubs, schools, colleges, universities, and businesses to address factual information concerning the major areas of concerned listed above.

1. Interested parents will have an opportunity to enroll their children in the program.

2. Registration fee and tuition:

• Registration fee with workbook: $30.00

• Tuition fee per 2 hour session: $27.00 per person, per session

• Students will attend 9 sessions of training with a Personal Success Assessment (PSA)

• Tuition fee for additional sessions will be $27.00 per 2 hour session, per person

• The entire program will consist of an assessment plus 8 success steps as follows:

1.      Personal Success Assessment  (PSA)

2.      Develop basic computer skills

3.      Discover your purpose in life

4.      Explore education and career opportunities

5.      Identify your skills

6.      Make a list of “things you love to do” an inventory

7.      Develop a Resume

8.      Do mock interviews

9.      Create a 5 year education and career plan for future success—a Living Career Plan (LCP)

To achieve maximum results, students will be trained in groups of 3 as follows:

·        Small Class: 3-6 students per instructor

·        Medium Sized Class: 9-12 students per instructor

·        Large Class: 15 students per instructor

A major part of our mission is based on stage 5 of Erik Erikson’s Eight Ages of Man. This stage states that the care-giver’s task is to help teenagers (ages 12-18) develop independence from their parents and resolve confusion about sex roles and occupation (Elkind, 1970). School-To-Success was designed to help parents and guardians accomplish this task.

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