URBAN DOVE INC
21-21 41st Avenue 2D, Long Island City, NY 11101 www.urbandove.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Urban Dove energizes, educates, and empowers young people through our network of UD Team Charter Schools serving over-age/under-credited high school students. UD Team's innovative model uses sports, teams, restorative practices and mentoring to create a culture of high expectations and shared responsibility. By instilling our core values of Teamwork, Leadership and Communication, we develop our students into confident young adults ready to reach their full potential.

Urban Dove is dedicated to enriching the lives of New York City's at-risk youth by creating a supportive, positive environment where children and teenagers can develop the life skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential.

374 Urban Dove students took part in the HiRisers youth employment training program. 228 of these students received 15+ hours of training, and 142 students worked on-site at elementary schools, leading younger students in athletic and academic activities. 462 Urban Dove students took part in College All Stars college awareness and preparation program. 39 of our Year 3 (senior) students received at least one college acceptance letter. These two programs, coupled with our team-of-students model, give Urban Dove a unique and powerful approach that fuels student success. With this foundation of academics and social skills, our young people can successfully navigate the difficult high school and college years that lead to independent adulthood. Urban Dove is preparing to move into new school buildings in Brooklyn and the Bronx during the 2021 fiscal year. The new building for UD Team Brooklyn in Midwood will open in September, 2020. UD Team II Bronx will operate in its current location for the start of the school year, with the move to the brand-new campus in Melrose scheduled for the end of the year.

Urban Dove's mission is to help children develop into healthy, successful adults who are economically, socially and emotionally independent. Urban Dove works in communities East Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and the South Bronx - where the number of youth facing challenges is disproportionately high. Our unique program model energizes, educates and empowers youth over many years - building strong, trusting relationships that increase our impact and ensure our expected outcomes around high school graduation, college enrollment, and college graduation. In its after-school programs, Urban Dove engages youth ages 8-18, with a focus on teenagers. Historically, our teenagers have attended various public high schools in the communities we serve, but as Urban Dove transitions to a school-based model, the vast majority of our programming will now focus on teenagers who are students at our two transfer high schools in the South Bronx and Bedford-Stuyvesant. This coming year we will serve over 650 young people, including 450 high-school aged youth and 200 younger participants who receive services in the HiRisers program:Student Demographics:* Over 85% of teens are from low-income families and qualify for Free/Reduced Lunch* 80% come from a household with no college graduates * 80% have never had a job until working with Urban Dove * Over 40% have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)* 55% are male and 45% are femaleHiRisers is a year-round peer mentoring program that trains teenaged students to be coaches and mentors to younger children in their community. HiRisers programming is now based at our schools and will serve students who attend those schools. At Urban Doves schools, HiRisers will be a credit-bearing class that students must take each year. Students will be graded on their participation, effort and development, and will receive both a high school credit as well as a CDOS credit, which can be counted as one of the five New York State Regents Exams required for graduation.UD Team students in HiRisers begin with a 12-hour training program led by Urban Dove and school staff. These trainings teach the programs three core values (Teamwork, Leadership, Communication), are fun and engaging, and help the UD Team students form strong relationships with each other. Throughout the school year, HiRisers students receive one hour of additional training each week. When ready, students graduate from training and go on-site at one of several local elementary /middle schools in the community and run programming for the students there in grades 2-7. For the UD Team students in HiRisers, acting as a coach and mentor builds self-esteem and confidence while providing a real-life opportunity to utilize and improve their own life-skills. UD Team students are recognized at an Awards ceremony at the end of each HiRisers session for their work and improvement and receive a grade/credit for their participation which counts toward their graduation requirements. During the summer, HiRisers operates as a camp program, where UD Team students (also known as Youth Staff) are hired as counselors to continue the work they have done throughout the school year. Urban Doves HiRisers camp runs for six weeks as a day camp in both Brooklyn and the South Bronx. The summer culminates in a seventh week of sleep away camp in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. During this week of sleep away camp, Youth Staff are once again challenged to develop new skills, live away from home, stay in bunks, work together with other teens and build new relationships. In preparation for summer camp, Youth Staff receive 25 hours of training and an additional 10 hours throughout the summer. During the course of the year, UD Team Students/Youth Staff receive over 200 hours of job training, life-skills development and team building activities. Youth Staff earn a stipend for participation in HiRisers throughout the year, and earn an hourly wage for their work as camp counselors in the summer.College All-Stars is a full-service, early college awareness program that prepares Urban Dove students for their first major post-high school step -- attending and graduating from college. Where HiRisers provides the life skills needed for success in college, CAS provides the technical expertise needed to navigate this complicated process. Like HiRisers, each student at UD Team has College All-Stars class once per week. This past year at UD Team, students were engaged in over 200 hours of CAS programming. Year 1 students (Sophomores) received 20 hours of workshops and trainings and had their first visit to a college campus. Year 2 students (Juniors) received over 8 hours of workshops and trainings and completed over 120 hours of SAT prep, including 3 full practice exams. Year 3 students (Seniors) spent 36 hours in workshops and trainings including 10 hours of personal, one-on-one college counseling including guidance with FAFSA and TAP forms.Last year Urban Dove:* Served over 650 youth in our Teen Programs and school* Saw a program retention rate of 84%* Provided juniors and seniors with 2 three-day college tours and 5 local college visits, visiting 20 colleges* Saw juniors and seniors in the after-school program and UD Team students receive over 30 hours of training and over 200 hours of work experience in HiRisers during the school year.* Employed 76 HiRisers Youth Staff as Summer Camp counselors.

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