Why Support Student Success Centers?

 

BRIDGING THE GAP

OnPoint Student Success Centers is an extremely innovative way of bridging the gap between at-risk/disadvantaged youth and post-secondary education. Realizing that you can’t effectively help a child without also helping the parent, we have a program that bridges the gap of effective communication between the youth participating in our program and their parent(s). We realize that many parents are frustrated with the effects of working, raising children, planning for a future, dealing with changing technology, and a host of other variable that impact the family in today’s society. Parents have forgotten the basics or many are simply convinced that they are inadequate and incapable of getting the job done.

COST OR LOST?

We at OPSSC also feel that the money should not place a barrier between any youth and the opportunity of educational preparation. Minority youth scores on the SAT are well below average. Many at-risk students are afraid to take standardize test because they have not been properly prepared. A large number of economically disadvantaged families would love for their children to enroll in Kaplan, Sylvan Learning Centers, and other for-profit academic programs, but they cannot afford the cost of these supplemental educational services. We have broken the barrier and bridged the gap by making our services 100% free to the participants in our program.

IMPROVING THE NUMBERS

We are not only building brighter futures, we are also increasing the national statistics of minority youth that enter post-secondary education. The youth in this program will be well prepared by SAT/ACT preparation, tutoring, leadership workshops, working as a team, exposure to travel outside of their environment, and preparation for the post-secondary experience.

WHO WILL HELP?

The counselor to student ratio throughout America’s schools is incredibly low. According to the U. S. Department of Education, and the National Center of Education reports show that the student to counselor ratio is 477 (students) to 1 (counselor). Based upon that number of students, a counselor could only spend less than 3 hours out of the entire year per student. The problem here is that each student needs individual attention. Teachers can not afford to see each student individually, so who is there to offer one on one attention.

PARTNERING WITH THE COMMUNITY

With your support and our program(s), the OPSSC will get the job done. Our qualified staff will counsel each individual student one on one, both on an educational and personal level. We will also assist the parent(s) through our Parent Success Program on methods/techniques to help improve the relationship between parent and child, which results in the child having positive feelings about self and positive relationships with others.

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