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The Advocate Center uses athletics, academics and the arts to support youth in North Philly. June 6, 2016 Category: ColumnFeaturedMediumPurpose

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THE ORG: PHILADELPHIA FUTURES

THE MISSION: To provide “low-income, first-generation-to-college students with the tools, resources and opportunities necessary for admission to and success in college”

THE JOB: College Connection coordinator

In a city where less than half of its public high school graduates go on to college, Center City-based nonprofit Philadelphia Futures recently announced that every single one of the 86 students who participated in its Sponsor-A-Scholar and College Connection programs this past year was accepted to at least one college. Since the org’s founding 25 years ago, 98 percent of Philadelphia Futures’ students has attended college.

College Connection serves students at local public, charter and parochial high schools starting in 11th grade by providing personalized college guidance as they begin the college application process. Help them reach higher education by planning and implementing programs, recruiting students to participate and generally supporting students through their College Connection experience.


THE ORG: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY NORTH CAMDEN SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP

THE MISSION: “To increase student achievement by providing an integrated system of partnerships that promote academic success, support positive social and emotional development, and engage families and community members in an effort to strengthen the North Camden neighborhood”

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THE JOB: Program coordinator for education outreach

Rutgers’s Camden campus is committed to using its resources to serve the surrounding community, which is why its education-focused North Camden Schools Partnership program exists. (The program is actually modeled after Penn‘s Netter Center for Community Partnerships — see below.)

The program coordinator will work with both the university and local schools to create educational school-time and after-school programs, as well as summer programs taking place on Rutgers’s campus, for K-12 youth.


THE ORG: THE ADVOCATE CENTER

THE MISSION: To unite “community residents, volunteers, service providers and educational institutions in a cooperative effort of mutual support and learning to improve the life prospects and well-being of North Philadelphia residents”

THE JOB: Career, service and justice (CSJ) office program director

This 18th and Diamond streets-based nonprofit touts itself as “creating change in North Philadelphia through education, arts and culture.” The org’s CSJ office offers college and career counseling — including an “intensive two-week College Boot Camp for 25 rising high school juniors and seniors” during the summer — to area youth who might not receive such help elsewhere.

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THE ORG: RESCARE WORKFORCE SERVICES

THE MISSION: “To provide the highest measurable quality supports for the people and organizations we serve, our employees, our stakeholders and our communities”

THE JOB: Youth career specialist

ResCare — “respect and care” — is a national home care company and workforce contractor that assists adults and youth with disabilities and special needs, including by offering counseling, training and job placement. As a youth career specialist, you’d aid and advise program participants during their job searches.

Check out some other semi-local ResCare jobs here.


THE ORG: NETTER CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS

THE MISSION: To create “mutually beneficial partnerships between community stakeholders and Penn partners to implement inquiry-based learning in-school and after-school programming in select West Philadelphia public schools”

THE JOB: High school summer instructor for Work Ready program

University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center is where the university engages with and bolsters the surrounding West Philly community. After all, as it admits on the center’s mission webpage, “Penn’s future and the future of West Philadelphia are intertwined.”

For about 35 hours per week, Work Ready instructors will develop skill-building for high school students and lead those students in organizing sports or literacy activities for younger ones.

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