Youth Development Programs
-New Brunswick Middle School Extended Day
-7th Grade Step Up Leadership Development
-8th Grade Intercede Leadership
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Any Questions? Please contact Latisha Monk at (732) 247-9066 extension 15, or
email at latisham@civicleague.com
-Intercede Scholars (Grades 9-12)
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The New Brunswick Middle School (NBMS) Extended Day program is a ten month program (September 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008) serving approximately seventy-five (75) to ninety (90) Middle School students by offering academic and enrichment programming. The program is housed at the Paul Robeson Community Theme School for the Arts at 199 Commercial Avenue, New Brunswick and is available to all students attending the New Brunswick Middle School (Lord Stirling Community School, Redshaw Elementary School, Paul Robeson Community Theme School for the Arts and Roosevelt Elementary School). The Program engages parents, faculty, and community members who are supportive of this youth development effort. The Extended Day daily programming begins at 2:30 p.m. at the NBMS for attendance, daily instruction and snack. Program participants are then transported to Paul Robeson by 3:30 p.m. for homework and club programming activities until 5:30 p.m.
All NBMS program participants will participate in club activity that contains elements of the nine (9) Core Curriculum Components. Homework assistance and tutoring, known as Homework Investment Time (H.I.T.), is mandatory for each participant. Each club is responsible for engaging in at least one (1) relevant community service effort per marking period. Each club curriculum will also have a writing component (a paper or project) relevant to the club theme. Club advisors will interface with the NBMS principal and the Language Arts teachers to complement the school day format for subject matter and writing criteria. Clubs include the Diversity Club, Financial and Career Development.
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7th Grade Step Up Leadership Development Program The Civic League of Greater New Brunswick, in cooperation with the New Brunswick Board of Education’s 21st Century Program, Johnson & Johnson, and New Brunswick HUB Teen Center sponsors the 7th Grade Step Up/Leadership Development Program.
All selected 7th grade students in the New Brunswick school district were offered an opportunity to participate in the Step Up activities and workshops throughout the school year. Planned sessions include presentations on career exploration and goal setting. Approximately seventy-five (75) 7th grade students (7-10 from each participating school) are selected to participate in this after-school program designed to promote Building Self-Esteem, Self-Development, Goal Setting/Decision Making, and Conflict Resolution. Upon completion of the curriculum, participants will become eligible to participate in the expanded 8th Grade Leadership Program the following school year.
8th Grade Intercede Leadership Program
Students are selected from New Brunswick schools through a request from school principals. Planned sessions of the monthly program include presentations on career exploration, civic responsibility and goal setting. Enrollment is voluntary and the initial 7-10 students from each school who submit completed permission slips will be registered as participants; preference is offered to those students who participated previously in our 7th Grade Step-up program. Sixty-five (55) 8th grade students (7-14 from each elementary school and 16 from the middle school) were selected to participate in this after-school program designed to promote Civic Responsibility, Self-Development, Empowerment, and Conflict Resolution. The program included Empowerment Civics, which takes a hometown-first and legal rights-based approach to civic education that teaches students the value of civic engagement in a local environment.
*Each eight grader completing all assignments received $150 award, while each seventh grader received a $100 U.S. Savings Bond. Over the past four years, more than 375 seventh & eighth grade students in the New Brunswick public school district have completed the Leadership programs
*Upon completion of the curriculum, participants will become eligible to participate in the Civic League's Whitney M. Young, Jr. Summer Institute. Click to read more about Summer Institutes
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The League’s Intercede Scholars Program has been in operation for the past sixteen years, serving over five hundred high school students from the New Brunswick area.
In September 2007, it was announced that our Intercede Scholars Program received a $31,000 grant from the Kraft Employee Fund Northeast to serve more than thirty high school students from New Brunswick with educational and enrichment services during the school year.
The Kraft grant will support one-on-one counseling sessions, along with group meetings in the areas of test anxiety, study skills, and self-motivation activities. The Scholars program continues to coordinate with the Rutgers Upward Bound Program in monthly Saturday sessions conducted on Livingston College campus. This year’s activities will also include field trips to area colleges and universities. The program’s objectives are to reinforce academic achievement and strengthen self-esteem skills learned during the League's Whitney M, Young, Jr./ Rosa L. Parks Summer Institutes.It involves specific workshops and academic mentoring for participants. Nearly 50 students in grades 9-12 participate in the program, facilitated by 9 volunteers/staff.
Specific goals of the Scholars are to:
- Prepare for a S.A.T. score of 1800
- Complete at least twenty-five (25) hours of community service during the school year;
- Actively participate in school activities; active member of at least one school club; and
- Maintain a grade point average 3.0 or better.
- The completion of assigned projects and academic achievement are program’s major
Intercede Investors Club
Many low-income family members utilize their limited disposable income by investing in "quick fix" opportunities; daily lotteries and occasional trips to the casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
These valuable dollar resources, if invested correctly, could, over time, produce the economic strength to enable a family to escape the poverty cycle and become more self-sufficient.
All of the League’s Intercede Scholars, 15 to 23 years old, come from these families of very limited resources. Eleven of these students decided to organize an investment club. As emerging adults in their households, most recognize the need to readjust their spending habits to be able to meet their expressed career goals. These young entrepreneurs realize that by using their "investment energies," they can accumulate more long-term capital through informed decisions.
Youth organizers of the club elected officers and outlined the goals and objectives for a proposed program effort. Members of the League’s Rosa L. Parks Summer Institute Work Experience Program took the leadership in organizing and establishing standards for the investment program.
Coming soon! Profiles of our Intercede Scholars and Student Blogs tracking their progress through the program!
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Any Questions about our Youth Development Programs?
Please contact Latisha Monk at (732) 247-9066 extension 15, or
email at latisham@civicleague.com
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