Project for Pride in Living

Youth Success Programs are free and available to kids living in or near a PPL facility.

The goal of PPL’s Youth Success programs is to help children and young people achieve success in school and success in life.
Learn more about the impact of PPL’s Youth Success program

Programs are designed with these components:

• Family involvement: Family events, Parent Advisory Committee meetings, parent-teacher conferences, and staff/parent contact.
• Opportunities for community service. Groups provide regular opportunities for young participants to serve their community, develop healthy behaviors and relationships, and have fun. Activities include visiting with residents of local nursing homes, gathering and donating items to a homeless shelter, park clean up and much more.
• Hands-on learning. Working in a variety of media, science, and writing.
• Evaluation of program, staff, volunteers, parents, teachers and youth through surveys, focus groups, and staff observations
  
  

PPL’s youth and education programs build resilience among disadvantaged young people in some of the area’s most challenged neighborhoods.

In 2008, all youth served were from low- or no-income households. More than 90 percent were young people of color—including children of immigrant families from Africa, Afghanistan, Mexico and Central America—many of whom experience severe educational disparities.

Many of the children in the programs are English Language Learners and have a history of low test scores. A significant proportion frequently miss school and/or change schools because of housing instability and other family factors.