The Shaker Heights Youth Center staff lend support to students in grades K-4 in all five elementary schools in the district. They work closely with school teams to provide positive services to students who are experiencing difficulties that are affecting their success in school.
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The Youth Center works closely with guidance counselors, assistant principals, and teachers to identify youth in need of prevention services.
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The Youth Center staff provides services at the Shaker Heights High School and interacts closely with school personnel to identify youth in need of assistance in fulfilling their educational requirements.
Shaker Youth Collaborative (SYC), formerly known as Shaker MyCom, encourages youth to develop a voice in their community by active engagement in youth councils. The role of the Shaker Youth Council is to train and mentor high school students in leadership techniques and engage in service-learning opportunities.
SYC works with Y.O.U. (Youth Opportunities Unlimited) to expand the summer jobs program, allowing youth to gain real world job skills. Shaker Heights Youth Center is a MyCom Legacy Neighborhood, being one of the first neighborhoods to adopt the MyCom Youth Development initiative in 2008. The SYC assess youth needs, builds capacity, plans, implements and evaluates programming to best meet those needs. It provides out-of-school time opportunities to guide youth in building leadership skills, engaging in community service projects, and summer employment opportunities.
This program is designed to help students navigate through their middle school years. The Youth Center, in collaboration with UUCC (Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Cleveland), administers this program that provides after-school activities in a safe and nurturing environment.
The Innovative Center for Personalized Learning is a part of the Shaker Schools and offers a variety of non-traditional learning experiences for students. It seeks to meet the varied needs of the students by providing educational experiences and wrap around community resources that support growth, development, and success.
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P.E.E.R.S explores the response of youth and the “resiliency” factors require to manage these social complexities. Applying the Life Skills curriculum, they use role models, surveying, debates, social media, and other tools to explore the impact of social justice, a health pandemic, and other critical issues that have an effect on the lives of our youth population.
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Shaker students work with the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, an outreach program from Kent State University’s College of Architecture & Environmental Design that engages minority youth to design and construct outdoor furniture and playscapes for their neighborhoods.
The IMPACT Summer Leadership Program for students in rising grades 6 thru 8 focuses on building self-esteem, resiliency, and leadership skills, and incorporates the Life Skills curriculum and related activities to enhance these qualities in youth.
