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Albert Kahn Building
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Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: (313) 873-3450
| Name | Position | Location | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inez Savage Allen | High School Supervisor | Albert Kahn Building | (313) 873-3450 |
| Raynona Patrick | Supervisor | Albert Kahn Building | (313) 873-3450 |
| Sylvia A. Thomas | RYA Coordinator | Northwestern High School | (313) 596-0700 ext 222 |
| Henry Wells | Carnegie Algebra Coordinator | Northwestern High School | (313) 596-0700 ext 267 |
| Charles Black | Gear Up Consultant | Northwestern High School | (313) 596-0700 ext 265 |
| Barbara K. Smith, Ph.D. | High School Supervisor | Albert Kahn Building | (313) 873-3450 |
| Shirley Jean Strolger | Operation Graduation Coordinator | Northwestern High School | (313) 596-0700 ext 268 |
The following programs are supported by the Office of Guidance and Counseling:
The Elementary and Middle School Guidance Program are designed to provide students with the skills to be successful in career planning, personal growth, interpersonal relationships and increase in academic achievement.
Guidance and Counseling is a comprehensive and proactive program of specialized activities that assist students in identifying, planning, and attaining those goals and employment opportunities consistent with their aptitudes, needs, abilities and interests. The Guidance and Counseling Program is a systematically designed set of components including a counseling curriculum, responsive services, individual planning and systems support. It is developmental in design to offer sequentially planned activities which meets the needs of all students as they mature and progress through high school.
Student must meet City of Detroit income criteria or be a recipient of FIA/FIP; be 14-18 years of age; attend Cass, Crossman, Detroit City, Douglas, Murray-Wright, Northwestern, or Trombly; and need credits or strengthening in Algebra I and/or II
Carnegie Algebra helps students:
Gear Up Detroit, as part of the statewide project Gear Up Michigan, will provides services to a cohort of over 3400 middle school students and their families with the goal of significantly increasing the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in post-secondary education. Eighteen middle schools participate in Gear Up Detroit. All Gear Up participants receive early intervention services outlined by the Michigan Department of Career Development.
Operation Graduation is a federally funded program designed to encourage, assist, and provide incentives to a select group of students to remain in school through graduation. The objectives of the program are: (1) academic achievement, (2) retention in school and graduation, and (3) employability skills development.
Who is Eligible?
How do I qualify for paid work experience?
The Detroit Rewarding Youth Achievement Program (RYA) is a program designed to promote the present and future success of Detroit Public School students. It's mission is to novitiate students to seek college admission upon graduation from high school and to reward students for being positive role models in their schools, home and communities.
RYA Program Components
Participating Schools
The Wade H. McCree, Jr. Incentive Scholarship Program for ninth graders began as a pilot program in 1985 with seven colleges participating as scholarship sponsors. The program is designed to provide certainty of opportunity to attend college. The scholarship program offers a full tuition grant upon the ninth grade student's successful completion of a four-year college preparatory curriculum with a minimum B (3.0) average while in high school and a composite score of 21 or better on the American College Text (ACT). In order to participate, students and their parents must sign an agreement which states that they will meet the performance standards of the scholarship program delineated in the Student/Parent Contract.
Eligibility Requirements
