Of Covenant House washington. And Christopher Hall is a 21yearold who is benefitting from the Career Pathways program. Welcome all you have to viewpoint. Thank you. Covenant house young people helps with homelessness, physical and sexual abuse kids who drop out of school and kids who need Vocational Training and career but homelessness is one of your big problems right now, isnt it . Homelessness is for young people oftentimes theyre called the invisible young group, you dont see a lot of homeless young people on the streets. It is a big issue. It is one where we talk about 18 to 24yearolds who are a core group of young people because of challenges of affordable housing, because theyre changing their lifestyles or whose families are at a point of saying youre old enough to get out early. Its a major challenge for us here in the nations capital. And you dont find many Homeless Youth sitting in the classroom, do you . Thats right. The problems in the classroom though are that the dropout
Of Covenant House washington. And Christopher Hall is a 21yearold who is benefitting from the Career Pathways program. Welcome all you have to viewpoint. Thank you. Covenant house young people helps with homelessness, physical and sexual abuse kids who drop out of school and kids who need Vocational Training and career but homelessness is one of your big problems right now, isnt it . Homelessness is for young people oftentimes theyre called the invisible young group, you dont see a lot of homeless young people on the streets. It is a big issue. It is one where we talk about 18 to 24yearolds who are a core group of young people because of challenges of affordable housing, because theyre changing their lifestyles or whose families are at a point of saying youre old enough to get out early. Its a major challenge for us here in the nations capital. And you dont find many Homeless Youth sitting in the classroom, do you . Thats right. The problems in the classroom though are that the dropout
Of Covenant House washington. And Christopher Hall is a 21yearold who is benefitting from the Career Pathways program. Welcome all you have to viewpoint. Thank you. Covenant house young people helps with homelessness, physical and sexual abuse kids who drop out of school and kids who need Vocational Training and career but homelessness is one of your big problems right now, isnt it . Homelessness is for young people oftentimes theyre called the invisible young group, you dont see a lot of homeless young people on the streets. It is a big issue. It is one where we talk about 18 to 24yearolds who are a core group of young people because of challenges of affordable housing, because theyre changing their lifestyles or whose families are at a point of saying youre old enough to get out early. Its a major challenge for us here in the nations capital. And you dont find many Homeless Youth sitting in the classroom, do you . Thats right. The problems in the classroom though are that the dropout
We work with 16 to 24yearolds who have dropped out of high school, who dont have a High School Diplomae1 or g. E. D. Were a t Walkin Center located in the departmentni ofq employment services. There are five of us. Can get theirnr3w g. E. D. Ordiploma. Are we pleating those needs for our youth such as unemployment, transportation issues, homelessness, food instability . Are we working on those issues child care for example . And what the Reengagement Center does is look at those particular needs of our students address those, and then talk about Educational Options for them. You address them specifically for exampleriv÷ pnpram provides vouchers for child care. ni thats a big issue f lets say, teen mothers . Absolutely. The majorityni of our teen mothersxdni k5asx u qb why they left school to support that young, you know, that young t rr d. We have students homeless andco you know how can yout ni focus on algebra and english when you dont know where youre going to sleep tonight . We ha
Offer that that in spring and summer including pe and biology. We also want to have three centralized Evening School sites to offer those courses. We want to explore the opportunity to really partner with our communitybased organizations. So that students could actually work on some of these courses when they are in their community, when they are at their program. And work through it either virtually new exciting online programs, the not the ones of the past, but the ones that are more interactive that we have seen success in. Just to give another option to students and thinking about other options. One thing we found in our Summer School sessions when cbos targeted certain groups of students in Summer School, with my did see Better Outcomes for students had in that. At our last time we were at select committee i believe Sherman Walton spoke to that and we would like to do something similar targeting specific groups of students and provide them the extra support that. Is what were plan