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YQ's core mission is to provide educational scholarships to be awarded to at-risk teens with college or vocational aspirations.
YQ's core mission is to provide educational scholarships to be awarded to at-risk teens with college or vocational aspirations.
Reshaping Young Lives YouthQuest provides life-enriching activities which are grounded in leadership and life skill development, service learning and responsible citizenship. We believe structured activities surrounding character education and goal setting can help troubled youth develop the skills they need to succeed in the workplace and at home. By supporting activities such as peer tutoring, anti-bullying education, community volunteerism and citizenship participation, our funding helps develop the whole person and assist youth in creating a skill-set vital to living a productive life. •In 2006, YouthQuest provided a grant honor of the 10,000 teen graduate from Illinois Lincoln's ChalleNGe Academy.
•The Maryland Freestate ChalleNGe Academy is a tuition-free program that offers at-risk 16-to-18-year old high school drop outs an opportunity to change their future and potential to obtain a Maryland high school diploma.
•The Fort Gordon Youth ChalleNGe Academy graduates approximately 270 students per year.
1. Each year one million students make the decision to abandon school, never to return.
2. A startling 70% of our country's prison population is made up of high school dropouts.
3. Most dropouts believe they could have finished school under different circumstances
4. Individually and as a community it is our responsibility to see that every American child has the opportunity to seek his or her potential.
5. Every 10 seconds a high school student drops out