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Programs Adelante y Más Career Education Program Program Descriptions Adelante y Más Career Education Program Contact The mission of Adelante y Más’ is to provide vulnerable 6th-, 7th-, and 8th-grade students at Cleveland Middle School with the skills and experiences to stay in school and prepare for a career. Adelante y Más offers a variety of programs in nontraditional classroom settings. Its programs are designed to promote effective communication and decision-making skills, leadership training, and self-discipline; and to integrate the language, customs, traditions, and beliefs of the students it serves. Regular programs run throughout the school year. Summer enrichment programs are also available. Academic assistance is provided in writing and mathematics, and tutoring is available in English, Spanish, and Native American languages. Career planning and job training are also available. Mentorship programs are organized through local business internships and Latino community leaders. A job-training program has been established with Target Stores and Phillips Laboratories. Students must first complete successful training at the Target School Campus Store in areas such as customer relations, security, safety, and cleanliness. In addition, students are also tested in math competencies and oral and written communication skills. Sixth-grade students manage the AYM Desert Dog, a snack shop in service during lunch and before and after school. Students learn about loss and profit margin develop marketing and math skills, manage inventory and inventory control, learn to use a cash register, tally receipt tapes, and balance inventory with cash in, product out, and supply and demand. The Target Campus Store is operated and managed by the seventh-grade students. Through Target, the store uses independent vendors in jewelry magazines and other items. In addition, the program offers before- and after-school activities such as basketball, bowling, dance, and chess. Enrichment classes focus on areas ranging from computers to low-rider bicycles and Native American crafts. A drug and gang resistance program helps students develop skills and strategies to avoid violence. Students are asked to donate 20 hours of volunteer service to the Joy Junction Homeless Shelter and the Albuquerque Rescue Mission. Cultural Heritage Videos Project Contact: The mission of Espanola Valley High School’s TV production class, including the Cultural Heritage Videos Project, is to give youth the tools and skills to understand and produce media about their lives, cultures, and community and to share their ideas, visions, and interpretations with the greater public. The program provides students with concrete skills in creative media technology that will benefit them in their education and future professions. The program focuses on teens who are actively involved in some aspect of the Latino and Native American culture of northern New Mexico. Most of the videos include both Spanish and English, as many of the students—whose ancestors settled the area in the 1600s—are Latino but speak English. The TV production class started in 1992 with a grant for one camcorder in exchange for the class’s agreement to create a three-part video series about the school’s Teen Awareness Center. Over the years, the project director, who also teaches the production class, has obtained grants for high-quality camcorders and editing equipment, and the class has grown from 12 to 56 students. Today, students work in crews of four to suggest topics for cultural videos, write scripts, tape interviews, and film visual cover shots. They log the footage and edit the videos, and they also explore distribution venues. The hands-on program stresses competence in technology and creative video art. Unlike most schoolwork, which is seen only by the student and the teacher, the videos are seen, judged, and appreciated by the students’ peers, the community, and a statewide audience. It has reduced the dropout rate to 0 for students participating in the program, as compared with the schoolwide dropout rate of 75 percent. Many of the students have gone on to pursue higher education in mass media studies and other areas. Several have obtained professional work at Albuquerque network TV stations. The videos produced by students are shown as part of the high school’s biweekly new show, as well as aired on Espanola Cable TV and Santa Fe Public Access TV. They are also sent to CBS Southwest 13 TV station in Albuquerque, N.M., to be part of the News 101 program, which features teen news segments each night. The videos have won many prizes at video festivals, including four Rocky Mountain Regional Emmy awards, two Silver Awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival, two gold awards at the Houston International Film Festival, and a show of 24 short cultural videos at the Smithsonian Institute.
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The clinic began in 1976 as a migrant health center in Las Cruces under the HELP program. Today it serves a low-income population in rural and semirural communities in Las Cruces and southern Dona Ana County. The clinic works with individuals, families, and communities to ensure access to a coordinated delivery system of primary care. It also provides health promotion and disease prevention through community-based education and social services programs, including the Adolescent Family Life Program, the Promotora Project, and Primero Los Niños. Thirteen community-based medical and social service delivery sites are located in Mesilla, San Miguel, Anthony, and Sunland Park, with a satellite in Chaparral; dental centers are in Anthony and Las Cruces. Most staff are bilingual-bicultural, which enriches services to the many monolingual patients served, especially in Sunland Park, an area adjacent to the international border. Many patients access services and pharmaceuticals on both sides of the border. When requested, providers refer patients to X-ray services in Juarez, Mexico. The Promotora Project’s outreach and education services are well accepted by clients who were accustomed to a similar system in México. New Mexico MESA, Inc. Contact New Mexico Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Inc. (NM MESA) is a nonprofit organization that is part of a national initiative promoting educational enrichment for precollege students from historically underrepresented groups. The year-round program prepares Latino, Native American, and African American students for careers in mathematics, engineering, science, and related fields and serves more than 3,700 middle and high school students statewide. In a world that requires the extensive use of technology, all students must be technically and scientifically literate. NM MESA addresses this issue with a population that has been traditionally underserved and underrepresented. One-third of the program’s participating districts have a Latino population of more than 50 percent and a dropout rate of more than 45 percent. Because it has been determined that math scores of students in early grades and the number of math courses taken in high school have a direct correlation with college success, NM MESA strives to enhance those skills. The program targets participants in sixth through twelfth grades and requires four years of college preparatory mathematics and science. Participants receive enrichment experiences and practical help to achieve academic excellence through tutoring; independent study; academic, university, and career counseling; field trips; college visits; parent and leadership workshops; ACT and SAT preparation workshops; summer enrichment classes and activities; employment and mentorship programs; and scholarship incentives. The monthly leadership program provides students with skills and information ranging from resume writing to mock job interviews and preparing for the program’s visit to the state legislature. The visit allows them to meet their legislator, talk about their experiences in MESA, and deliver letters of support. Family members are encouraged to participate. The program is a role model that demonstrates that all members of the family are welcomed and valued at MESA events. Families are encouraged to attend field trips to colleges and become comfortable with the campuses. Parents who are familiar with colleges are better prepared to assist their children with the preparatory choices they must make as juniors and seniors. |