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Pictured here are some of the high school, Job Corps, and college students who have built and are in the process of benchmarking their step-by-step progress of implementing their personal Growth Plan.
JACKSONVILLE JOB CORPS
Beginning in the summer of 2009, 46 Jacksonville Job Corps students have been participating in a pilot to see whether growth planning will become a part of its ongoing educational and career development program. The Job Corps is a program of the United States Department Of Labor that has Job Corps facilities throughout the nation. Pictured here are some of the students working on their Growth Plan.
henry high school incentives group
In October of 2007 the Minneapolis Public School's Patrick Henry High School Varsity Basketball Team and several other students began building their Growth Plan. Currently, nine youth are actively benchmarking their step-by-step progress towards achieving their Growth Plan Life-Goals. Pictured above are Henry High School students discussing one of the ten Growth Planning Life-Skills, along with their three Growth Plan Coaches.
sabathani community center Incentives Group
In 2006 we began field-testing a new Incentives version of our growth planning process in which high school students could earn up to $100 in college scholarships and $25 in cash payments per month for building and implementing their Growth Plan. Pictured above seated from left to right working on computers are the first four participants in the Incentives Program: Johnnie Clark, Roy Curtis, Devon Walker, and Drew Bryant. Standing behind them on the left is Jon Pekel, their Growth Plan Coach, and Bobby Lay, the Horizons Youth Program Director at Sabathani Community Center in Minneapolis.
Sabathani 2004 Summer Workers
In 2004 we also helped high school summer workers (pictured above) at Minneapolis' Sabathani Community Center build Growth Plans. Monday thru Thursday they worked with daycamp children, but on Friday they built their Growth Plans in the computer lab. Sabathani is located in the old Bryant Junior High School and now houses a wide variety of nonprofit and governmental community services.
JaxBuild Program
In winter 2005 we helped JaxBuild Program youth (pictured above) build Growth Plans. JaxBuild, (a program of Daniel Memorial, one of northern Florida's oldest and largest youth agencies) teaches high school dropouts work and self-improvement skills as they study to take the GED and obtain a high school diploma. The days they are not in the classroom studying for their GED tests, they're doing construction work on home improvement sites.
YMCA Black Achievers
In Spring 2005 Jacksonville YMCA Black Achievers (pictured above) began building Growth Plans. Black Achievers is a national YMCA program that exposes 8th-12th graders to careers and helps them get to college or training school.
Urban Ed Summer Scholars
In summer 2005 twenty-five MN private college students (pictured above) built a Growth Plan as a part of the Urban Ed. Summer Scholars Program sponsored by the Hamline Univ. Center for Excellence in Urban Teaching. Funded by The St. Paul Travelers Company, the program gives future teachers experience teaching urban learners.
Sabathani 2005 Summer Workers
In summer 2005 Sabathani Community Center's high school summer workers once again built personal Growth Plans. Shown above are some workers and their adult leaders, Bob Lay (left) and Marvin McClure (right).
Sobriety High School - Maplewood
Also in summer 2005 Sobriety High School offered a for-credit growth planning course on its Maplewood campus. Twin City based Sobriety High provides adolescents recovering from alcohol or drug dependency a 4-year diploma in a safe, sober, and chemical-free environment. Pictured above are some of the Maplewood Campus students and their teacher, Craig Swanson (right).
Sobriety High School - Burnsville
In summer 2005 Sobriety High also offered a for-credit growth planning course on its Burnsville campus. Twin City based Sobriety High provides adolescents recovering from alcohol or drug dependency a 4-year diploma in a safe, sober, and chemical-free environment. Pictured above are some of the Sobriety High School Burnsville Campus students and their teacher, Angela Wilcox (seated, center). ]
Hamline University 2006 FySem Course
Once again, in the fall of 2006, Dr. Dwight Watson of Hamline University taught a seminar class for incoming freshmen, entitled :The Unique You: Strategic Goal Setting & Life Planning." As a part of the course all students are building a personal Growth Plan. Dr. Watson is pictured above on the far left of the last row.
St. Olaf College
In January of 2006 sixteen St. Olaf College students in Northfield, MN built a Growth Plan as a part of a growth planning project sponsored by the college's Student Support Services Department. Pictured above with the students are Kathy Glampe, Department Director, (first row, far left) and Justin Fleming, Academic Advisor (first row, far right).