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Aspiring Youth Madres a Madres Food Drive

   
     
The Aspiring Youth After-School Program is designed to increase the aspirations of middle school students and demonstrate the importance of education, hard work, commitment, and community service. Our annual participation in the Madres a Madres Food Drive program does exactly this, and it provides Aspiring Youth students with an opportunity to make an impact in their own community.
   
             
   
Each year students explore their creativity and decorate hundreds of brown paper bags for the "Mothers for Mothers” Food Drive at Marshall. The drive lasts for two weeks and fills up to nearly 300 bags with canned goods to be given to the mothers who live in shelters.
   
             
   
             
   

Metro Solutions Grand Opening of North Corridor

   
             
     

Aspiring Youth students help out their community in many ways, and this January the students were involved with the grand opening of the North Corridor Metro Rail. At the celebration, held to promote the new Metro to the local neighborhood residents, Aspiring Youth students helped serve sweet breads and drinks, as well as hand out maps and information on the new Metro Rail that will be added to Fulton Street all the way to Northline Mall.

   
             
   

James Coney Island gave away hot dogs, nachos and popcorn; and there was music with a live DJ, face paintings, balloon art, and even Davis Mariachi and their ballet folklorico dancers. Everyone had a wonderful time. Sally Martin who works for the North Corridor said “The students did a wonderful job. It wouldn't have been a successful event without them.”

   
             
   
             
   

Aspiring Youth Partners with Tech Corps

    
             
     

Aspiring Youth is always working hard to build collaborations to better serve our students. One of the most important things we want to bring into our collaborations is interesting but useful programs for our students. Our new partnership with Tech Corp provides exactly that. Tech Corps, which is a nonprofit organization that brings computer based programming into schools, allows our students to learn interesting things about computers as well as develop the hard skills that can be used in the workforce.

   
             
   
Tech Corps seeks to help schools build and sustain technological resources to enrich the education of today’s students to adequately prepare them as members of tomorrow’s workforce. Aspiring Youth and Tech Corp are excited to see the success of our partnership.
   
             
   
             
   
Aspiring Youth’s 5th Annual Book Club
   
             
     
Aspiring Youth students from B.C. Elmore Middle School will participate in Aspiring Youth’s 5th annual Book Club this spring. In addition to doing their normal reading alone, this year the students are spending their time reading aloud in order to learn to read with emphasis. The Aspiring Youth students are going to neighborhood elementary schools and kindergartens, where they are reading aloud short stories from various children’s books to the first graders and kindergarten children. The little kids love the stories and even get a copy of the chosen book to take home with them.
   
             
 
 
             
   
Aspiring Youth Intern Wins YP4 Fellowship Award
   
             
     

Aspiring Youth of Houston Intern, LaShic Patterson, has won the Young People for (YP4) Fellowship for her leadership on campus and in the community. Out of the thousands who applied, she is eligible to receive mentorship, leadership, financial backing, many network and community building opportunities. This month LaShic attended an all-expense paid trip to the fourth annual National Summit for Young Progressive Leaders in Washington, D.C.

    
             
   
The YP4 Fellowship is a year-long program for students enrolled in college or university, and YP4 provides young leaders and activists with the skills and support needed to establish positive change on and off their campuses. LaShic hopes to bring Aspiring Youth the assets needed to inspire our youth to change for the better.
    
             
   
             
   

Become a Volunteer for Aspiring Youth

   
             
     
Do you want to change your community by working with others? Do you need a sense of fulfillment? If you have answered yes, you may be the volunteer Aspiring Youth of Houston needs for its after-school programs or upcoming events such as College for a Day, Peace Jam Conference at the University of Houston, and Global Youth Service Day. Whether it’s one hour a day or one day a month, Aspiring Youth values positive participation received from people in the community. By becoming a volunteer as a tutor, mentor, one-time speaker, or assisting in our after-school programs, you can enhance a young person’s life.
   
             
   
Remember that you are saving society up to $2.3 million for each at-risk youth that you save from the perils of street life by becoming a volunteer according to the Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention (OJJDP) National Report. For more information on how to become a volunteer, please contact LaShic Patterson, the Programs/Development Coordinator, at 713.724.9422 or lpatterson@aspiringyouth.org.
   
             
   
             
   
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Aspiring Youth's mission is to prepare at-risk youth to aspire to and attain their highest degree of success in school and in life. To fulfill our mission, Aspiring Youth focuses on the middle school years when children are transforming from childhood to teenagers. The choices made during the pre-teen years are the foundation for each student's future success.

Aspiring Youth supports the following events:

    
   


College for a Day
TAKS Olympics
Map to Success Contest
Summer Program

   
Ammons Scholarship            
Take A Student To Your Employment Program
Trash Bash Public Service
College Scholarship Essay Contest 		   
             
   
             
   

If you live in a city with a Randall's Food Store, Randall's will donate 1% of your grocery purchases if you enter the Aspiring Youth® number (number 5130) and use your Randall's card with your purchases. 

Kroger Food Stores will also donate 1% of your grocery purchases if you use the Aspiring Youth™ Kroger card with your purchases (please let us know if you would like for us to send you a card to use at Kroger).

Donations to Aspiring Youth® are tax deductible to the extent allowed for 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations.  Clothing and small home items donations can be made by contacting Central Donations at 713-948-2828.

Thanks for being part of the solution!

   
             
   
             
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