Grantee Name: / Lowell Public Schools
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.