COLLEGE SUCCESS PROGRAMS
Building Community. Growing Leaders.
Through College Success programs, we help young adults and high school students apply to and enter college, and succeed once they get there.
Services include trips to colleges; financial aid and college application counseling; college awareness workshops; college persistence support; scholarship application support; financial literacy workshops; college nights for parents; academic tutoring; SAT/ACT prep and registration; college course registration; transfer support and personal advising, including advising from our youth leaders, current students who counsel and educate their peers to help them on the road to college.
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College STEPS Program (office for high school students)
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College Persistence Program (resources for current college students)
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Student Success Centers (high-school based centers for high school students)
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Community Schools (multi-faceted resources for high school students and their families)
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Future of Tomorrow (youth organizing program)
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Cesiah Toro Mullan Scholarship Fund(scholarship for two college-bound students)
Click the green boxes above or keep scrolling to read more about each program! Please contact us with any questions.
Contact:
Courtney Camacho
Director of College Success Programs
(929) 445-8187
College STEPS is located in a storefront office, and provides individual counseling, group workshops, SAT prep classes, and college trips to high school students.
Contact:
College STEPS & College Persistence
Lizabeth Diaz Durando
College Access Coordinator
2810 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11208
(718) 484-8531
Our College Persistence Program provides year-round support services to help our students persist in college and graduate. College Retention Counselors, along with College Coaches (who are current college students), provide support services to students including: on-campus office hours at colleges our students attend, summer programming to help students prepare for college, and group workshops on topics such as how to discuss concerns with professors, accessing academic assistance, financial literacy, resume writing and job readiness.
Contact:
College STEPS & College Persistence
Jonathan Chavez
Director, College Persistence
2810 Fulton St.
Brooklyn, NY 11208-2608
(718) 484-8531
College Persistence Program
College STEPS Program
SSCs are located on two campuses: the Franklin K. Lane High School campus, which serves five high schools, and the Thomas Jefferson High School campus, which serves four high schools. The SSC provides college access counseling and education to students at the four schools on the campus. The SSC also employs Youth Leaders, current high school students trained to serve as peer counselors and educators around college access.
Contact:
Franklin K. Lane Campus
Lisa M. LoFaso, LMSW
Director, Student Success Center
999 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11208
(718) 647-2100 ext. 8707
Thomas Jefferson Campus
Randall Duperval
Director, Student Success Center
400 Pennsylvania Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11207
randalld@cypresshills.org
(914) 570-4313
Student Success Centers
Community Schools
A community school is both a place and a set of partnerships between the school and other community resources. Its integrated focus on academics, services, supports, and opportunities leads to improved student learning, stronger families and healthier communities.
At the Franklin K. Lane Campus, we have three Community Schools. At Cypress Hills Preparatory High School and Brooklyn Laboratory High School, we focus on student engagement while at Multicultural High School we focus on family engagement in order to help students and families acculturate into the United States.
Contact:
Franklin K. Lane Campus
Barbara Moronta, M.S.ED.
Community Schools Director, Cypress Hills Collegiate Prep & Multicultural H.S
999 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11208
Cell: 347.470.8349
Office: 718.647.2100
Pedro Gonzalez
Community Schools Director, Brooklyn Lab
Courtney Camacho
Director, College Success Programs
(929) 445-8187
Student Organizing: Future of Tomorrow
The Cesiah Toro Mullane Scholarship Fund offers two scholarships a year to current college students in our College Persistence programming. PLEASE NOTE – any student whose a resident of Cypress Hills/East New York in Brooklyn (neighborhood boundaries are Jackie Robinson Parkway/Jamaica Avenue – North; Glenmore Avenue – South; Elderts Lane – East; and Pennsylvania Avenue – West), a participant in Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation’s College S.T.E.P.S. program and is an incoming college freshman is eligible to apply!
Applications for the 2020 Season are currently open.
Read more about the application and eligibility process here.
If you’re looking for a particular service, but don’t know the name of the program, head to the “How Can We Help You?” form so that a member of our program staff can contact you directly.
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Future of Tomorrow (FOT) is an organization led by students from the Franklin K. Lane Campus high schools who are dedicated to improving education so that all students are provided the resources, environment, and opportunity needed to succeed.
Member meetings are held Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Lane Campus. FOT’s current campaign calls for positive discipline programs at the Lane Campus: student peer mediation; professional development for teachers in restorative justice; and working with school safety agents to implement youth development practices. FOT is an active member of the NYC Urban Youth Collaborative, organizing high school students to ensure that schools prepare young people for college and respect the dignity of students through positive school culture and discipline.
Contact:
Khia Duncan
Youth Organizer, Future of Tomorrow
(929) 445-8187