Great Expectations Tour Visits Jsrcc
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The Great Expectations “Building the Bond” tour made its finally halt at JSRCC with a luncheon effect for over 100 stakeholders including students, foster parents, social workers in addition to others who hold out with Virginia’s foster youth on Wednesday, May 29.
Who with us doesn’t retrieve teenage angst? Imagine getting through those years with no back upwardly system, no 1 to plough to for advice. That’s what foster youth face, in addition to much worse. That’s why the Great Expectations programme is in addition to thence of import to Virginia’s foster youth. With its emphasis on a person-to-person connecter with a Great Expectations coach, the programme offers a unique response to the vexing challenge of single-digit foster youth graduation statistics. Great Expectations seeks to growth foster youth graduation in addition to college retentiveness rates.
Anne Holton, the programme manager of Great Expectations, in addition to other Virginia Community College leaders ask maintain hosted events across Virginia this month, seeking ideas in addition to back upwardly for elevating the adjacent stage of the foster youth-focused program. May is National Foster Care Month. Great Expectations began inwards autumn 2008 every bit a airplane pilot programme at 5 Virginia community colleges in addition to has grown to serve foster youth at 17 Virginia community colleges today. J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College was with the schools who piloted the programme inwards 2008. Over the by iv years 28 students ask maintain graduated from the Great Expectations programme at Reynolds in addition to 58 are currently enrolled. Statewide to a greater extent than than 500 youth are currently inwards the program.
The May 29th luncheon celebrated JSRCC’s newest Great Expectations graduates, highlighted the importance of the bond betwixt Great Expectations students in addition to their coaches, in addition to concluded with a intelligence seeking suggestions on ways to amend the programme for the future.
For to a greater extent than data on the Great Expectations program, delight catch www.reynolds.edu.
