CFUL CAN!
CFUL CAN! is a comprehensive higher education access and success campaign that engages the entire Pine Hills community in promoting, participating in and supporting higher education.
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CFUL CAN! brings together local school districts, businesses, community organizations, government agencies, colleges, universities and other higher education institutions and college success entities to promote diverse post-secondary education opportunities throughout the community and provide residents with easy to access/easy to use resources to help them prepare for and enroll in programs of higher learning. CFUL CAN! is as an awareness campaign and resource network which promotes and supports higher education readiness activities conducted in Pine Hills. Our goals are to:
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Youth & Education
The Urban League’s Youth Education and Prevention department is committed to planting the seeds of responsibility, self worth and hope into the lives of Central Florida’s youth. The Agency believes that the community is empowered by investing in its youth. Through its various programs, the Urban League nurtures more than 1,000 young people a year.
Black-on-Black Crime Prevention Program
The Black-on-Black Crime Prevention Program (BBC) is a unique community-based program that focuses on strengthening families using a holistic approach. The BBC encourages youth through club workshops, community activities, church activities, school activities, community-wide events, and youth conferences.
Project Succeed
Project Succeed is a teenage pregnancy prevention program designed to assist youth in improving self esteem, positive family relations, academic performance (including grades and attendance), and behavior. The program is targeted for youth between the ages of 8 and 18.
Youth Crime Prevention and Intervention Program (YCPIP)
The YCPIP serves youth between 10-18 years old who are living in at-risk environments. The program offers anger management, first-time offender, teen pregnancy prevention, tutoring and rite-of passage workshops. This program also provides career counseling to youth 16-18 years old who are not enrolled in school.
Youth Leadership Summit (YLS)
The Youth Leadership Summit (YLS) is our annual event that educates, empowers, and develops youth between the ages of 13-18 years old. The Youth Leadership Summit covers topics such as entrepreneurship, college prep, health, culture, and healthy relationships.
The Workforce Job Training Program is a youth career preparation program rooted in work activities.
It is a comprehensive workforce development initiative to re-connect “high-risk” out-of-school and/or adjudicated youth between the ages of 16 to 21 years old, with education through employment. The program, along with our partners, delivers the academic, career exploration and personal development acumen that are prerequisites to launching successful careers.
This initiative is funded through the U. S. Department of Labor with an objective to place these youth in meaningful unsubsidized employment.
Program Participants:
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The program addresses the needs of thirty “high risk”, out-of-school and or adjudicated 18 through 21 year old youth.
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Participants whose reading and math levels test at a 6.0 to 7.9. (Only for participants who do not possess a diploma or GED).
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Selected youth will not be eligible if convicted of violent offenses including: murder and non- negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, larceny/theft in excess of $5,000, arson and hate crimes.
Program Requirements:
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The Workforce Job Training Program is a four-domain model spearheaded by work, an activity that resonates with our youth.
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The domains include: Assessment, Case Management (Counselor Advocates) and Mentors Educational Continuum; Work Continuum; Personal Development to include job readiness & basic skills
Participants leave the program with enhanced employability skills, financial management skills, and enhanced life skills placement in unsubsidized employment, post secondary education, or a military career.
Workforce Job Training Program
The Workforce Job Training Program is a youth career preparation program rooted in work activities.
It is a comprehensive workforce development initiative to re-connect “high-risk” out-of-school and/or adjudicated youth between the ages of 18 to 21 years old, with education through employment. The program, along with our partners, delivers the academic, career exploration and personal development acumen that are prerequisites to launching successful careers.
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This initiative is funded through the U. S. Department of Labor with an objective to place these youth in meaningful unsubsidized employment. Program Participants
Program Requirements
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Participants leave the program with enhanced employability skills, financial management skills, and enhanced life skills placement in unsubsidized employment, post secondary education, or a military career.
National Urban League Incentives To Excel and Succeed (NULITES)
The National Urban League Incentives to Excel & Succeed (NULITES) program is the longest running youth initiative sponsored by the National Urban League. Founded in 1989, this effort to service young people would focus on providing opportunities for youth from economically and socially challenged backgrounds and diverse cultures to become self-sufficient, competent and contributing members of society and their communities through exposure to individuals and programs that promote character development, enhance critical thinking, problem solving and decision making skills. NULITES is based on 7 Principles that guide young people into becoming successful adults.
7 Principles of NULITES:
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Strive for excellence at home, school and in my community
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Work within my neighborhood to further its development
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Respect my mind and body as well as the minds and bodies of others
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Celebrate my heritage and culture as well as those of others
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Create a better future for my family, other people and myself
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Care for the world’s people and environment
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Promote a universal spirit of cooperation and peace.)
The CFUL chapters, of the NULITES program, serve youth ages 12 – 18 throughout the Central Florida Region.