Friday, February 17, 2006
Site Visit: Family Technology Resource Centers
Overview: DeKalb County community learning center site visit (www.ftrc.org)
Ideas:
- Work with police department to determine local impact of afterschool opportunity & juv. crime stats; DeKalb: 911 calls typically high afterschool are now falling
- Explore relationship between afterschool & foreclosure rates
- Cardiac Teen Program - Nationwide, 4/100 teens possess a certain hereditary heart condition; local testing done after a tragic teen death found 50/300 in DeKalb County had this condition --> awareness, testing, prevention
- Require 15 hrs of service in exchange for free community programs in the arts, technology --> just passed millionth hour of service
- Coca Cola offers parents 24 hours (3 days off) for parents to participate in school activities.
- Metro Voices, Metro Choices Atlanta community visioning process included youth voices
Ideas:
- Work with police department to determine local impact of afterschool opportunity & juv. crime stats; DeKalb: 911 calls typically high afterschool are now falling
- Explore relationship between afterschool & foreclosure rates
- Cardiac Teen Program - Nationwide, 4/100 teens possess a certain hereditary heart condition; local testing done after a tragic teen death found 50/300 in DeKalb County had this condition --> awareness, testing, prevention
- Require 15 hrs of service in exchange for free community programs in the arts, technology --> just passed millionth hour of service
- Coca Cola offers parents 24 hours (3 days off) for parents to participate in school activities.
- Metro Voices, Metro Choices Atlanta community visioning process included youth voices
// posted by Rebecca Kelley @ 11:04 AM 
