Education
Education Committee Chairperson is Fred Peters.
Committee Members
2013 Objectives
•Short term objectives
1.Create an invitation w/ benefit
2.Identify players
3.Include participants in April meeting
•Long-term objectives
1.Identify existing training and educational opportunities to obtain marketable skills
2.Identify gaps
Prior to conducting the Comprehensive Community Assessment, network members identified the following priorities for education:
Within this field we recognize the needs of sub-populations including the following:
Committee Members
2013 Objectives
•Short term objectives
1.Create an invitation w/ benefit
2.Identify players
3.Include participants in April meeting
•Long-term objectives
1.Identify existing training and educational opportunities to obtain marketable skills
2.Identify gaps
Prior to conducting the Comprehensive Community Assessment, network members identified the following priorities for education:
- Engage school districts and their counselors;
- Mentoring programs for disadvantaged youth (sex education, work with faith based agencies);
- ESL and Literacy;
- Independent Living Skills (LIFE 101).
Within this field we recognize the needs of sub-populations including the following:
- Chronic substance abuse
- Elderly
- Ex-offenders
- Homeless
- People with English as a second language
- Persons with cognitive disabilities
- Persons with HIV/AIDS
- Persons with less than a high school degree / GED
- Persons with physical disabilities
- Severely mentally ill
- Unaccompanied youth (under 18)
- Undocumented immigrants
- Veterans
- Victims of domestic violence
- GLBTQ (Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning)
