GPRA 5.1 Number and percentage of Promise Neighborhood students who enroll in a two-year or four-year college or university after graduation

Definition. 5.1 Enrollment in a two-year or four-year college or university after high school graduation. High school graduates from the target high schools should be tracked for up to 16 months post their high school graduation to determine whether they enrolled in community colleges, associate’s programs, or four-year colleges or universities.

Local Definition. Number of students who graduated from Thurgood Marshall high school and then enrolled in a two-year or four-year college or university within 16 months of their specific graduation date divided by the number of students in the graduating class (includes summer graduates).

Data compiled from National Student Clearinghouse

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Student Success Navigators -  Student navigators prepare individualized plans for enrolled Hope Zone participants that identify needs, existing services in place, family dynamics, and educational outcome aims. Student Success Navigators connect participants to resources and services in the community and serve as the point-of-contact for participants or their families when barriers are impeding access to services. Each Student Success Navigator carries a caseload of 60 children/youth.

Sinclair @ Hope Center - At the Hope Center for Families, Sinclair College offers certificate programs and other learning opportunities including:

•  Allied health instruction
•  Fast Forward Center - staff directly impact prevention stop-out, a program to help students obtain their high school diploma or obtain a GED. Fast Forward Center also provides advising for pre-college students to encourage transition to higher education.
• A work-based learning center connects students with apprenticeships, internships, and other experiential learning opportunities.
• Scholarships and financial advising

EMPath Mobility Mentoring - Mobility Mentoring® is an evidence-based coaching approach that allows providers to partner with families and individuals and help them acquire the resources, skills and sustained behavior changes necessary to attain and preserve their economic independence. Developed by Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath), a Boston-based nonprofit, EMPath is known worldwide for their coaching approach, founded on the belief that each pathway out of poverty is different. Recognizing the need to shift the way human services delivery is done, EMPath turned to the brain science behind poverty and what the science tells us is poverty and stress compromise the skills and behaviors most necessary for people to lift themselves out of poverty. In response to this finding, EMPath has developed Mobility Mentoring and The Bridge to Self-Sufficiency®. Omega CDC will offer EMPath Mobility Mentoring out of its Hope Center for Families.

Ready 4 Work -  Omega CDC utilizes the JIST curriculum in partnership with the Montgomery County Business Services - Workforce Division to assist participants in navigating employment barriers by teaching them how to prepare a resume and participate in an interview.

Scholar University - Omega CDC initiated Scholar University in 2022 as an opportunity to close our cradle-to-career continuum after providing expanded learning in K-6 from 2017-2021 and scaling to grades 7th-8th in the 2021-2022 year. In academic year 2022-2023, Scholar University began serving transitioning 9th grade scholars with the intention to scale and close the pipeline through grade 12 to college and career during the Hope Zone project. Scholar University focuses on high school transition programs by employing career pathway programs to assess the interests and aptitudes of students in the middle grades. The program then creates coursework and program infrastructures that allow students to seamlessly progress through their academic work starting in high school and continuing to and through credential and degree completion.