Community Action Team (CAT)
Community Action Teams (CATs) are composed of members from the business, faith, government, and social service community along with parents, students and educators. CATs are charged with the responsibility for providing leadership in the enactment of recommendations, starting with those outlined in Project Prevail, the FWISD's comprehensive school completion plan. The goal of Project Prevail is to increase the number and percentage of students graduating from high school, prepared for higher education or gainful employment.
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United High School Council (UHSC)
The United High School Council is committed to providing service and leadership to the schools of the Fort Worth Independent School District. As a council, the members will support the school district through volunteer activities, provide leadership to thier individual campuses and work together with a sense of responsibility and mutual respect.
Location: The Fort Worth ISD Board Room
Time: Thursdays (once a month) 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Contact Person: Erica Marez 817.852.1151
Youth Forum
The purpose of the Youth Forum is to engage students in ‘listening sessions’ through which their issues, concerns and aspirations will be identified and responsive actions can be proposed. The event will be youth-led and youth-facilitated. Seven groups (four female/three male) will be formed. The ‘listening sessions’ will be facilitated exclusively by trained youth with an adult present in each session to monitor.
Location: TBD
Time: Friday, May 28, 2010 10:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Contact Person: Erica Marez 817.871.1152
Community Call To Action
The size and scope of the project will be to identify and select a target community and schools within to promote community engagement, parental involvement, enhance academic achievement, and create a respectful climate through sustainable school-family-community partnerships. The target communities will include those of low-income parents, high crime rates, and high risk behavior leading to drop-out, and schools with high drop-out rates. The project will be required to:
- conduct a community assessment
- build community partnerships
- develop community- school partnerships and
- engage parents, schools, community organizations, faith-based groups and other agencies