The College & Career Awareness- Evaluation, Awareness, Readiness (E.A.R™) Guide is to provide potential Fulfillment Programs a criteria on how they can help facilitate College & Career Awareness Programs for Students ranging from the ages 14-25 whether in High School, attending College or Vocational School. The Programs must align with Identifying/Evaluating issues while Implementing/Providing practical solutions with likely outcomes.

The aim of this guide is to help support and encourage goal-oriented programs, with a step-by-step process, on how they can work together with KDA’s Fulfillment Programming.

Timeframe

The process is aligned with the academic calendar and is implemented during the course of the school year. Specific steps are taken during defined periods, recurring or continuous, so that the process of reviewing early-warning data and identifying appropriate support strategies and interventions is timely and responsive to individual student needs. In the longer term, the process allows ongoing evaluation and revision across academic years to ensure that it achieves maximum efficiency and efficacy in the local context. Table 2 provides an example of an implementation process during a single school year.

Establish Roles and Responsibilities

Responsibilities- Requirement for Businesses;

• Re-Evaluation Period: (Generate Content for Data Evaluation & Testimonials)
  • Every Business Quarter, fulfillment partners are required to go through a re-evaluation period where we collect data through:
    • Surveys
    • Testimonials

Educational Service Announcement (ESA™):

• Business are required (one of the following on a Monthly basis) to provide a local ESA™Announcement via:
  • Radio
  • Video
  • Live Broadcast
  • Live Stream
  • Website/Blog

An Educational Service Announcement (ESA™) or educational service ad, are messages in the public interest disseminated by the media without charge, with the objective of raising College & Career Awareness, changing public attitudes and behavior towards a social educational issue.

• Suitable Examples - Student of the Month, Scholar Athlete, Scholar Student, Community Service, Recognizing local schools programs

• Each Educational Service Announcement (ESA™) must recognize the Keeping Dreams Alive Foundation’s:
  • Name- Keeping Dreams Alive Foundation™ non-profit 501(c)3
  • Tagline-  “Change One Life, Change A Generation
  • Mission- To change one life, change a generation™’ by educating, preparing, mentoring and teaching our students, both athletes and nonathletes.  Instilling in our students the skills necessary for character success, academic success and performance success so they can be  college and career ready to thrive in the corporate world, design their own financial future and give back to their communities through service.

• Internships/Service Hours:
  • Provide service hours (High School, College) :14-21 years old
  • Provide Internship Opportunities (High School, College) :14-25 years old