Minnesota Alliance With Youth

A fundamental belief of the Alliance is that schools alone cannot ensure that all students succeed. We believe youth development must be a community effort, not just an effort of those in the education or youth development fields. All sectors (non-profit, government, schools, faith-based, business, parents, youth) must mobilize around young people. School-Community Partnerships (SCPs) ensure young people have multiple access points to resources.

Each SCP reviews causes of the achievement gap and the civic engagement gap within their own school(s), designs strategies to address their particular issues (e.g. tutoring, mentoring, youth leadership development, future goal planning), and identifies youth to be targeted for program participation. The cohort of youth might be a particular grade where transitions are difficult (e.g., 8th to 9th grade) or a particular group of youth, such as youth who are ineligible for Title I, youth with a history of academic failures in particular subjects or truancy, or youth identified by teachers as those with great potential if they only received individualized attention.

SCPs host and support the work of AmeriCorps Promise Fellows to help implement their plans. AmeriCorps Promise Fellows serve full-time for one year at an SCP site. AmeriCorps Promise Fellows coordinate programs and volunteers to increase the academic success of students locally identified by the SCP Team as needing additional support. Promise Fellows leverage resources and build capacity of SCPs to effectively utilize tutoring, mentoring, civic engagement, and leadership development for students.

WATCH BELOW to see how one of our School-Community Partnerships collaborates to provide five critical resources for youth to succeed!

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SCHOOL-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS

• ACES – Monroe
• Achievement Plus: Dayton’s Bluff Elementary
• Achievement Plus: John A. Johnson Elementary
• Albert Lea
• Augsburg Fairview Academy for Health Careers
• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Brooklyn Junior High Champions of Youth Opportunities Coalition Partnership
• Como Park Senior High School
• Crosswinds School
• District 112
• Dakota Wicohan
• Educational Talent Search
• Episcopal Community Services
• Fergus Falls School Community Partnership
• Ginew/Golden Eagles Program
• Girl Scouts/Nettleton Magnet
• Grand Rapids/ISD 318
• Grant Collaborative
• Hastings Community Education
• Hopkins/SCIP
• Jackson Street Village
• Laura Jeffrey Academy
• Marshall Public Schools
• McGregor
• Mentoring Partnership of MN
• Minnesota Alliance with Youth
• Minnesota Internship Center School
• National Youth Leadership Council
• Naytahwaush Community Charter School
• Neighborhood House
• Nobles County Integration Collaborative
• Northern Lights Community School
• Northfield Healthy Community Initiative
• Northfield High School
• Northfield Middle School
• Northfield Union of Youth/The Key
• Northwest Youth and Family Services
• Orono Healthy Youth
• Park Avenue Youth and Family Services
• Phyllis Wheatley
• Prairie Seeds Academy
• Roof Project/Project Quest (Wilder)
• Roseville Community Education
• SCPC
• Saint Paul Public Housing
• Search Institute
• SHAC
• Sojourner Truth Academy
• STEP
• Students Today, Leaders Forever
• The Link
• U of MN 4-H Brainerd
• U of MN 4-H Moorhead
• U of MN 4-H Morris
• U of MN 4-H Rochester
• U of MN 4-H Saint Cloud
• U of MN 4-H Winona
• U of MN 4-H White Earth Reservation
• Urban Arts/Bancroft Elementary
• Waconia Public Schools
• Wilder Youth Leadership Initiative
• WISE Charter School/AAMP
• Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment
• Youth Community Connections
• Youth Intervention Programs Associations