Advocacy to Expand Educational Opportunity

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Advocacy to Expand Educational
Opportunity
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• Low income Adult Basic Education, ESOL, and GED
  Learners
• Low wage incumbent workers
• Low income first generation adults enrolled in
  College

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• Dorcas Place Adult Family Learning
  Center

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Mission

• Our mission is to assist low income adults
  realize their full potential through literacy,
  employment, advocacy and community
  involvement.In carrying out this mission we
  embrace these values advocacy, collaboration,
  community, family, empowerment, compassion,
  diversity, hospitality, life-long learning,
  respect and responsibility.

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THE STUDENTS OF DORCAS PLACE FY 2006 OVERVIEW
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Demographic Profile of Primary Target Populations
for Dorcas Place
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• Functional Literacy
• Adult Basic Education (ABE)
• GED
• English Speakers of
• Other Languages (ESOL)

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• Family Literacy
• In Partnership with the
• National Center for Family Literacy

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• Workforce Literacy
• Career Academy In Customer Service
• Accelerated Health Career Academy
• The Clothing Collaborative

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• Community Academic Drop-In Center (LRC)

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The LRC serves

• Students waiting to enroll in class
• Students who are unable to attend class on a
  regular basis
• Students in our College Preparatory Program

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• Wrap Around Support Services and Case Management

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• College Preparatory Program (CPP)
• In partnership with Community College of Rhode
  Island (CCRI)

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Recommendations
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• Create career pathways from ABE/ESOL and GED
  Programs to college. The pathways need to be easy
  to navigate and lead to jobs that will enable
  adults to support themselves and their families

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Need to find ways to accelerate the
pace of instruction in Adult Education Centers
and Colleges and Universities
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• Need to formalize partnerships with
  employers in order to support incumbent workers
  continuing their education

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Need intensive and intrusive support services
at the community and college level that lead to
the elimination of dispositional, situational,
and institutional barriers
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• Dr. Brenda Dann-Messier, Ed.D.
• Dorcas Place
• 220 Elmwood Avenue
• Providence, RI 02907
• b.dann-messier_at_dorcasplace.org

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Resources

• Breaking Through Helping Low-Skilled Adults
  Enter and Succeed in College and Careers
  Available http//www.jff.org/JFFPages.php?WhichL
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• MDRC- Executive Summary
• Opening Doors- Students Perspectives on
  Juggling Work, Family, and College
• by Lisa Matus-Grossman and Susan Gooden
  with Melissa Wavelet, Melisa Diaz and Reishma
  Seupersad
• Postsecondary Education Opportunity Public
  Policy Analysis of Opportunity for Postsecondary
  Education Available http//www.postsecondary.org
  and www.postsecondaryopportunity.blogspot.com
• Strengthening Transitions by Encouraging Career
  Pathways A look at State Policies and Practices
  by Katherine L. Hughes and Melinda Mechur Karp
• Best Practices in Student Support Services A
  Study of Five Exemplary Sites by Lana Muraskin
• Convergence Trends Threatening to Narrow College
  Opportunity in America
• A Project of the Institute for Higher
  Education Policy
• The New England ABE-to-College Transition
  Project Evaluation Report by Julia Gittleman,
  Evaluator, Ph.D.