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Scotiabank has donated $100,000 to Ottawa’s Pathways to Education, an innovative program that helps students from some of the city’s poorest families succeed in high school.
“One of the things that truly impresses us is Pathways’ ability to engage youth,” said Frank Bilodeau, Scotiabank’s vice-president of the Ottawa and West Quebec district. “They have an impressive track record.”
Scotiabank’s gift was presented to Pathways officials Thursday at the Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre.
Developed by the Regent Park Community Health Centre in Toronto, Pathways to Education offers high school students who live in public housing academic, social and financial support in return for a commitment to attend both school and the program’s tutoring sessions.
Since its founding in 2001, the program has expanded to 12 communities across the country.
The Ottawa program, launched in September 2007, serves more than 450 high school students who live in Ottawa Community Housing developments in the Pinecrest-Queensway area.
The 11 communities are home to a high proportion of immigrant families and single parents. Many live at or below the poverty line.
In the two years before the Pathways program launched, the average graduation rate for high school students living in the communities was 52 per cent.
Three cohorts of high school students from the same communities have now completed the Pathways program. Their five-year graduation rate is 82.5 per cent, which is on par with the provincial average, said program manager Dawn Lyons.
More than 80 per cent of all Pathways graduates in Ottawa went on to college or university within three months of leaving school, she said.
The program, which operates out of the Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre, offers the kind of support commonly missing from the lives of immigrant students since their parents often do not have the language skills to help them through school.
Pathways offers individual and group mentoring sessions, along with tutorial classes four nights a week. Each student is also assigned a support worker who meets with parents and teachers to promote a sense of partnership.
Pathways students are also eligible for lunch vouchers and bus passes provided they maintain a good attendance record at school.
In addition, each Pathways student earns a $1,000 bursary, held in trust, for each year of high school they complete. The money, up to a maximum of $4,000, can only be used to defray the cost of post-secondary education.
Pathways students must sign a contract agreeing to attend school regularly and tutoring sessions at least twice a week.
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“One of the things that truly impresses us is Pathways’ ability to engage youth,” said Frank Bilodeau, Scotiabank’s vice-president of the Ottawa and West Quebec district. “They have an impressive track record.”
Scotiabank’s gift was presented to Pathways officials Thursday at the Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre.
Developed by the Regent Park Community Health Centre in Toronto, Pathways to Education offers high school students who live in public housing academic, social and financial support in return for a commitment to attend both school and the program’s tutoring sessions.
Since its founding in 2001, the program has expanded to 12 communities across the country.
The Ottawa program, launched in September 2007, serves more than 450 high school students who live in Ottawa Community Housing developments in the Pinecrest-Queensway area.
The 11 communities are home to a high proportion of immigrant families and single parents. Many live at or below the poverty line.
In the two years before the Pathways program launched, the average graduation rate for high school students living in the communities was 52 per cent.
Three cohorts of high school students from the same communities have now completed the Pathways program. Their five-year graduation rate is 82.5 per cent, which is on par with the provincial average, said program manager Dawn Lyons.
More than 80 per cent of all Pathways graduates in Ottawa went on to college or university within three months of leaving school, she said.
The program, which operates out of the Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre, offers the kind of support commonly missing from the lives of immigrant students since their parents often do not have the language skills to help them through school.
Pathways offers individual and group mentoring sessions, along with tutorial classes four nights a week. Each student is also assigned a support worker who meets with parents and teachers to promote a sense of partnership.
Pathways students are also eligible for lunch vouchers and bus passes provided they maintain a good attendance record at school.
In addition, each Pathways student earns a $1,000 bursary, held in trust, for each year of high school they complete. The money, up to a maximum of $4,000, can only be used to defray the cost of post-secondary education.
Pathways students must sign a contract agreeing to attend school regularly and tutoring sessions at least twice a week.
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