Programs & Descriptions
Liberty Partnerships Program
Tutorial Program
Homework and tutorial assistance is available at the SUNY Orange Newburgh Campus. All students can receive academic support and assistance in any subject.
Rising Stars After School Program
Students in grades six through eight participate in a variety of activities that feature academic enrichment classes, personal development workshops, career and college exploration and field trips. Students select from various enrichment courses that may include technology; environmental education; and arts in education.
The Ninth Hour
Ninth graders attend weekly meetings designed to assist them with their transition from junior high school to high school. The program provides educational, career and college information that reinforces their decision making and goal setting skills. All ninth graders have the opportunity to tour the local high school, shadow a high school student for a day and learn first hand about the high school experience. In addition, students participate in community service projects and learn the importance of giving back to their community.
Scholars on the Move
Tenth and eleventh grade students meet weekly and participate in a two-tier program that includes both personal development and workforce preparation activities. For one hour, students are engaged by community organizations about numerous teen related topics. The additional two hours students participate in youth enrichment projects that provide technical training and skills in specific career areas including Performing Arts, Business & Information Systems, Engineering & Technology, Health Services, Natural & Agricultural Sciences, Human & Public Services. The youth enrichment projects link academic learning and occupational learning.
CollegeCounts
Students in grades 9-12 attend a comprehensive college preparation program that introduces students to the various steps they need to take during their high school years to prepare for college. Activities include PSAT, SAT and ACT preparation; writing college essays; and attending college fairs. Students learn how to research colleges and how to complete their college, financial aid and scholarship applications. Students visit NYS college campuses and stay overnight visiting out-of-state college campuses. They plan and participate in community services projects and fundraise.
Girls Embrace Maturity (GEM)
Students in grades 7-12 attend a gender-based leadership program for girls only that consist of three phases that include: personal development, leadership development and career development.
Males Enter Manhood (MEM)
Students in grades 7-12 attend a gender-based leadership program for boys only that consist of three phases that include: personal development, leadership development and career development.
City of Newburgh
21st Century Community Learning Centers Collaborative
The Vision of the 21st Century Community Learning Center
As a key component of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program (CCLC) is designed to provide expanded academic opportunities for children attending low performing schools. The legislation's specific purposes are to:
- Provide opportunities for academic enrichment, including providing tutorial services to help students (particularly students in high-poverty areas and those who attend low-performing schools) meet State and local student performance standards in core academic subjects such as reading and mathematics;
- Offer students a broad array of additional services, programs, and activities, such as youth development activities, drug and violence prevention programs, counseling programs, art, music, and recreation programs, technology education programs, and character education programs, that are designed to reinforce and complement the regular academic program of participating students; and
- Offer families of students served by community learning centers opportunities for literacy and related educational development.
While the 21st CCLC is a federal program, responsibility for administering the program has been transferred to the State educational agency (SEA) in each State with funds block granted to the state.
Deeply rooted in the community schools model, Community Learning Centers strive to involve the school, youth, families and community as equal partners in developing programs and services that build both academic and non-academic skills in children and youth.
What are the Intended Outcomes of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program?
Community Learning Centers reach outside their walls to leverage services and programs that help to meet a range of needs that affect student learning. As a result, multiple objectives and performance indicators to measure the progress of 21st CCLC grantees are utilized, as described below:
GOAL: To enable elementary and secondary schools to plan, implement, or expand extended learning opportunities for the benefit of the educational, health, social service, cultural, and recreational needs of their communities.
Objective 1 - Participants in 21st Century Community Learning Centers programs will demonstrate educational and social benefits and exhibit positive behavioral changes.
- 1.1 Achievement. Increasing percentages of students regularly participating in the program will meet or exceed State and local academic achievement standards in reading and mathematics.
- 1.2 Behavior. Students participating in the program will show improvements on measures such as school attendance, classroom performance, and decreased disciplinary actions or other adverse behaviors.
Objective 2 - 21st Century Community Learning Centers will offer a range of high quality educational, developmental, and recreational services.
- 2.1 Core educational services. Centers will offer high-quality services in core academic areas, e.g. reading and literacy, mathematics, and science.
- 2.2 Enrichment and support activities. Centers will offer enrichment and support activities such as nutrition and health, art, music, technology, and recreation.
- 2.3 Community involvement. Centers will establish and maintain partnerships within the community that continue to increase levels of community collaboration in planning, implementing and sustaining programs.
- 2.4 Services to parents and family members. Centers will offer service to parents/families of participating children and youth.
- 2.5 Extended Hours. Centers will offer services at least 15 hours a week on average and will provide services when school is not in session, such as during the summer and holidays.
The City of Newburgh's Community Learning Centers Collaborative
The City of Newburgh received a 21st CCLC grant in the spring of 2005. This grant is for four years with an end date of December 2008. The total annual award to the City is $488,651. A fundamental principle of Newburgh's efforts is to position the school building and community venues as a centerpiece of the community and a source for valuable learning resources. In order to accomplish this, the collaborative brings together many partners - each having expertise in a particular area(s) of service - to offer a range of supports and opportunities to children, youth, families and communities - before, during and after school. CLC partners are school and / or community-based organizations that are responsible for working in partnership with their local community to identify the needs of the children, youth and families to be served, develop and implement services and activities, collaborate with other after school services and supports in the surrounding community and cultivate external partnerships to bring additional resources into the community.
Newburgh's five community learning center sites include Horizon on the Hudson School, Best Resource Center, Orange County Community College, Washington Heights Center and Mullins Housing Community. The core partners' team for the project includes the following organizations:
- Arts Alliance
- Best Resources, Inc
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County
- City of Newburgh*
- Cornell Cooperative Extension
- Dispute Resolution Center
- Hoops Express
- Newburgh Boxing Club
- Newburgh Enlarged City School District
- Newburgh Performing Arts Academy
- Orange County Community College / Liberty Partnership
- Sarah Wells Girl Scouts
* Grant administrator
To find out more about the partnership, contact: Sara Espinosa, Director
@ 845-569-7366 / sespinosa@cityofnewburgh-ny.gov.