Empowering Youth - Strengthening Community
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Currently accepting applications for the following programs:
Spring 2009 Self-Discovery/Career Exploration semester (10th, 11th & 12th Grades)
*Business Orientation Project 2009 semester (10th, 11th & 12th grades)
*Rawls Scholars Medicine Initiative 2009 (10th, 11th & 12 grades)
Project MR. (7th, 8th, 9th & 10th grade males)
*College Prep Institute summer 2009 (10th, 11th & 12th grades) Parents & Students
Success Prep summer 2009 (graduating 8th graders) Parents & Students
Book Club summer 2009 (middle & high school students)
*Indicates students must be graduates of the Self-Discovery/Career Exploration Project to participate.
For further information contact the CLD office at 923-8111. Don't wait enroll now!
CLD Principles for Success:
- Character Development
- Educational Excellence
- Leadership Effectiveness
- Community Service
- Career Achievement
ABOUT THE CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT:
During the mid 1970’s, Indianapolis community leaders identified several factors, which they believed prohibited or at least severely limited African American youth from achieving, or even aspiring to achieve academic, college and career success. The lack of exposure to the many career opportunities and options available to youth; the lack of awareness of the demands, expectations, and preparation required to excel and take advantage of these great career opportunities; and the absence of a substantial number of African American professionals who could provide this guidance, mentoring, role modeling and simple encouragement all served to stifle the ambitions, hopes, and aspirations of youth.
The mission of the Center for Leadership Development “to foster the advancement of minority youth in Central Indiana as future professional, business and community leaders by providing experiences that encourage personal development and educational attainment”. The foundation of CLD's vision for developing youth; helping them set high meaningful goals; training them to responsibly handle peer pressure; and motivating them to pursue excellence rests on instilling in these youth, CLD's Principles for Success. These CLD Principles for Success are five (5) core principles and values, which we believe are fundamental and vital to developing youth and preparing them for the highest levels of personal development, career success and an enriched overall quality of life: character, education, leadership, service, and career.
CLD offers twelve quality developmental programs for middle and high school students and their parents that provide meaningful preparation in the core values of belief in self, setting high, meaningful goals, overcoming negative peer pressure and other barriers to success, working extremely hard, attending college and graduating. CLD is making a real difference in the lives of minority youth. CLD participants study better, study harder, employ better time management skills, and spend more time planning for their success in high school, college and career. Because of CLD’s experience, quality youth programming, and focused preparation, CLD participants also graduate from college at a higher rate than their non-CLD peers. Because of CLD’s strong focus and emphasis on hard work and high achievement, seventy-one (71) percent of CLD graduates report enrolling in some institution of post-secondary learning. Moreover, over 50 percent of CLD graduates who attend college earn a college degree. By comparison, only twenty-four (24) percent of Indiana’s African American college students in publicly supported institutions earn a bachelor’s degree in six years. This level of impact on youth affirms the success and need for CLD’s mission and programs.
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