Project Name: / Full Service Community Schools Transformation at Lowell High School Career Academy
Project Contact: / Margaret Ferrick
Director
(978) 970 – 3318
Mailing Address: / 125 Smith St., Lowell, MA 01852
School District: / Lowell Public Schools
Project Sites: / § Lowell High School Career Academy
Partners: / § Career Center of Lowell
§ Christ Jubilee Church
§ Community Teamwork, Inc.
§ Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce
§ Greater Lowell Community Foundation
§ Greater Lowell Workforce Investment Board
§ Lowell Adult Education Center
§ Lowell Community Health Center
§ Lower Highlands Neighborhood Association
§ Merrimack Valley Food Bank
§ Middlesex Community College
§ Mill City Grows
§ New England Eye
§ Project LEARN
Project Services: / § Remedial education
§ Family engagement
§ Assistance to students that have been chronically absent, truant, suspended or expelled
§ Mentoring and youth development
§ Job training and career counseling services
§ Community service and service learning
§ Nutrition services and physical activities
§ Activities to support increased access to social services
§ Mental health services
§ Adult education and literacy services
Total (5-Year Funding): / $ 2,493,911.00
Project Summary:
The goal of the project is to increase academic achievement and attainment for students by effecting the following intermediary variables: (1) students: attendance, learning, health, behavior, school connectedness; (2) parents: parent engagement with youth and school, parenting skills, health, educational attainment, employment; and (3) community: health, school-community connectedness, educational attainment, and employment.