Early Awareness Programs

Familiarize yourself with early awareness basic facts and the main purpose of awareness initiatives. Look through notable early awareness programs.

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Federal TRIO Programs include the Upward Bound and Talent Search programs. The Upward Bound program supports at-risk high school students during there college preparation (including low-income students and first-generation college students). The Talent Search program gives an academic, career and financial advice to people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
The AVID program send academically average students to academically challenging courses and gives them an academic support they need to succeed. The purpose of this effort is to help prepare students in grades 5-12 for college.

Project Grad
Project Grad couples curricular improvements with student and family support programs, college guidance and college scholarships to increase the quantity of lower-income students who are admitted to college. They concentrate on the elementary and middle "feeder" schools that supply students to high schools, as they have found that interventions must begin before the 9th grade.

America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth
America's Promise is an alliance of hundreds of national organizations and local initiatives that concentrate on one or more of the "Five Promises". These include training initiatives, a safe environment for after-school activities, healthy start, academic enrichment, and community service.

College Is Possible
The College Is Possible is an early awareness initiative financed by the American Council on Education. It gives information about preparing for college, selecting a college, and paying for college.

Mapping Your Future
Mapping Your Future is an early awareness initiative financed by a group of guarantee agencies that take part in the Federal student loan program.

Think College Early
Think College Early is an early awareness initiative financed by the US Department of Education. It gives information for students, parents and educators about matriculating and paying for a college education.

I Am Your Child Foundation
The I Am Your Child Foundation is a national non-profit organization that concentrates on early childhood development and school readiness.

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