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The National Urban League’s Youth Leadership Summit is the annual culminating event for all National Urban League Education and Youth Development programs and reinforces the goals and practices of the
affiliates’ work with middle- and high school-aged youth.

For more than 20 years, the Summit has brought together up to 500 youth and their chaperones from communities served by Urban League Affiliates across the country. This five-day event immerses young people in a college setting to provide them with a unique educational and development experience, focused on important skills for success in college, work and life. While youth participants learn to navigate the college experience,
affiliate program staff and chaperones are provided with structured professional development and capacity building workshops.

Held in July, the annual Youth Leadership Summit coincides with the National Urban League Annual Conference to further provide young people with a deeper connection to the legacy of the Urban League movement.

Past Youth Leadership Summit host sites have included:

Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Howard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Northeastern University
Spelman College
Temple University
Texas Southern University
Tulane University
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Illinois Chicago
University of Maryland College Park

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The Northern Virginia Urban League has successfully integrated the Math & Science Technology Academy into its Youth Development out of school time program, serving youth in grades 6-12. The Math and Science Technology Academy is a supplemental academic service, providing additional academic support to low- to moderate-income youth, while encouraging youth to actively engage in STEM related subjects in school.

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Community Partnerships provide the Urban League with the opportunity to recruit students outside of our in school program. Community partners help to provide resources such as curriculum material and leverage services and resources in order to help us effectively fulfill our mission in empowering communities and changing lives. Through several different projects that we have done with our students, we have been able to solidify several community partnerships.

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The Project Ready 2.0 Curriculum

The curriculum is comprised of three major components: 1) Academic Development, 2) Social Development and 3) College Culture and Awareness. More importantly, for each component there are a set of explicit student outcomes which are guided by an Individual College Development Plan (ICDP). Our post-secondary success approach explicitly integrates academic preparation for college and success after high school with positive youth development in order to better serve young people in the 21st Century. Project Ready is a unique and comprehensive approach to building the academic, personal, social and leadership assets of African American students.

Middle School Transitions

The Middle School Transitions component prepares and supports middle school students in making the move from middle to high school, an especially vulnerable time for adolescents. We recognize the need to begin post-secondary success opportunities and supports earlier in adolescence in order to smooth the transition from middle school to high school and maximize the impact of the program. The Project Ready Middle School Transitions model started as a pilot serving over 100 5th-8th grade students in three Urban League affiliates:

Chicago Urban League
http://www.thechicagourbanleague.org/

Milwaukee Urban League
http://www.tmul.org/

Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle
http://www.urbanleague.org/index.php/departments/education

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

In 2010, the National Urban League expanded Project Ready to include a component focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). It started as a pilot at three Urban League affiliates who have successfully operated effective college access or preparation programs in the past, or have successfully operated STEM programs for middle or high school age youth. The goals of this expansion are to ensure that urban students have the necessary supports and opportunities available to them in order to succeed in STEM-related class work, and to expose students to STEM-related careers, including the fields of health, digital media, green jobs and robotics. The STEM pilot operated in there affiliates:

Urban League of Rochester
http://www.ulr.org/education_youth_programs.php

Urban League of Greater Chattanooga
http://www.ulchatt.net/programs

Urban League of Springfield
http://www.ulspringfield.org/programs.html

Service Learning

The Service Learning enhancement affords eight Project Ready sites the opportunity to participate in community service and development projects paired with meaningful reflective and developmental instruction. Service-learning programs adopt youth development frameworks to engage young people in a mix of formal instruction, service activities and reflection. At their best, these programs provide meaningful service activities that benefit both participants and their communities, fostering life skills, critical thinking, a sense of efficacy and self-worth, and responsible attitudes and behaviors.

Mentoring

Through Project Ready: Mentor, at least 440 young people will each receive at least 182 hours per year of individual, group and virtual mentoring. Read more…