Youth Programs
Our Youth Development Strategy
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ETHM’s Bridging The Gap to Academic and Career Excellence:
1. Building communities that equips youth with career and workforce skills
2. Sustaining communities that empowers youth with leadership and character skills
3. Uniting communities that engage youth in community service activities and events
4. Healing communities through youth advocacy for educational, social, moral, and economic equity
5. Impacting the health and wealth of communities through youth leadership where they live, learn, work, worship, and play
End Time Harvest Ministries (ETHM) propagates systems change through our strategy of breaking down barriers that prevent illiteracy, equal access to education, health disparities, access to economic wealth, poverty, unemployment, and preventing students from entering the pipeline from high school to prison. There is a great need for our programs that bridge the gaps of education, health, safety, poverty, and morality through our highly successful programs. These prevention programs help youth to overcome underachieving academically for life success; unemployment or under-employment; and lack of exposure to quality and affordable after-school programs and services. Through ETHM programs, the organization annually saves the county $210,261. It cost $588 per day x 365 days=$214,620 to house an incarcerated youth per year vs. ETHM’s $4,359 tuition for the annual cost for a student-participant in ETHM’s Pathways to Career Success Programs.
Youth Safety & Mental Health Education Initiative (YSMHEI)
Please see our Youth Safety & Mental Health Education Initiative (YSMHEI) Report (with data and pictures) that provides our readers with a comprehensive summary of how we with many partners fight against gun violence, fentanyl use, and carjacking in our county.
Strategy Focus
ETHM’s strategies focus on student literacy at BHS through experiential learning opportunities that engage students who live, learn, work, worship, and play primarily in the Port Towns and Riverdale communities in health and nutrition and environmental health education with community partner businesses. This approach to education in addition to students’ quarterly grade and attendance monitoring and community outreach activities, summer internships; tutoring and mentoring; curriculum development and review; and practical skills training improves students’ literacy and positive behavioral changes.
Our organizational goals are to graduate students on time; prepare students for college, career, and workforce entry; equip students with leadership and character skills; and promote youth-led health and wellness advocacy. ETHM’s Pathways to Career Success school-based program operates during the school day, which provides our career coaching staff with opportunities to meet with students &/or their parents. Our staff works with students to help them prepare their own academic, career, and health goals. ETHM’s programs help improve students’ literacy in subject areas that include English, math, history, government, workforce development, health, nutrition education, science, and social studies. Our year round programs are embedded in the school day and school’s health and science curriculum.
The need for ETHM is great! BHS and William Wirt Middle School (WWMS) are Title 1 schools with many educational, health, social, and economic needs that are depicted by gaps that our inner beltway youth experience:
1) Underachieving academically for life success
2) Suffering from high unemployment or under-employment
3) Lacking quality and affordable after-school programs and services
ETHM’s highly successful youth serving organization addresses these and other youth development needs that prepare students to move to life sufficiency:
1) 100% of our students graduate on time college, career, and workforce ready.
2) An average of 75 Service Learning Hours (SLH) are earned by students upon graduation. Most SLH is earned through ETHM’s community outreach initiatives.
3) 75% of our students participate in ETHM summer internships, summer enrichment programs, or college bridge programs that correlate to their career choices.
4) 90% of our graduates are accepted by colleges for admissions.
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2024 ETHM Fundraising supports the following Program direct student costs: Tuition, Student Stipends, & Scholarships
1) Continue providing free tuition annually to each Pathways to Career Success (PTCS) Program participant. This year, the tuition cost per participant was $4,359.
2) Total stipends paid to summer interns was $104,072 through our Jobs-For-Youth Summer Employment Program (JFYSEP).
3) Total scholarships awarded to our graduates was $25,000. Scholarships are still being awarded to graduates.
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Cost-benefit impact of ETHM to PGCPS per year
PTCS Tuition cost: $4,359 vs $214,620*annual cost for an incarcerated youth.
PTCS Dropout rate: 0
PTCS Suspension rate: 0
PTCS Attendance: 100% of our graduates were absent less than 10 days throughout the entire school year
*Incarcerated youth data retrieved from: http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/sticker_shock_final_v2.pdf
** BHS Graduation & drop out data retrieved from: http://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Graphs/#/AtaGlance/Index/3/17/6/16/0208
•BHS Suspensions, expulsions data retrieved from: http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/about/Documents/DCAA/SSP/20172018Student/2018SuspensionsbySchoolIN.pdf http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/about/Documents/DCAA/SSP/20172018Student/2018SuspensionsbySchoolOUT.pdf
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This Social & Human Justice History Book,
written by high school youth, is A CALL TO ACTION and will Educate you! Emancipate your mind! Encourage you to speak up and out with factual knowledge! Revive your prayer life!
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