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Coca­-Cola Valued Youth Program

Introductory Seminar

October 21, 2009
Houston

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At this event you will:

• See this highly-successful dropout prevention program in action
• Find out how you can strengthen your school’s holding power
• Meet Valued Youth tutors
• Meet teachers that are using the Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program
• See the program in action.
• Learn about funding sources.
• Hear how the program can help your school’s holding power

Award-Winning Dropout Prevention
The Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program is an internationally-recognized dropout prevention cross-age tutoring program in schools across the United States and Brazil. Since its inception in San Antonio in 1984 until 2009, the program has kept 29,000 students in school, young people who were previously at risk of dropping out.

According to the Valued Youth creed, all students are valuable, none is expendable.

This philosophy is helping schools across the United States and Brazil keep 98 percent of Valued Youth students in school. The program has made a visible difference in the lives of more than 541,000 children, families and educators.

In the Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program, secondary school students who are considered at risk of dropping out of school are placed as tutors of elementary school students, enabling the older students to make a difference in the younger students’ lives. With a growing sense of responsibility and pride, the tutors stay and do better in school. The program supports them with positive recognition and instruction.

Effective Dropout Prevention
Make plans now to attend the IDRA Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program Introductory Seminar in Houston. 

This is for people who:

• Want to learn more about the program, or
• Are new or experienced in the Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program.

Administrators, teachers and community members are welcome.

• See the program in action by visiting schools that are successfully implementing the program.
• Learn how to use Title I, II, III, State Compensatory Education and other sources to fund the program.
• Hear how tutoring can help your school prevent students from dropping out of school.

The Agenda
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Registration fee includes lunch and transportation to site visit.

Registration
Register online with a purchase order number • Mail registration form with a check or purchase order to IDRA at 5815 Callaghan Road, #101, San Antonio, Texas 78228, Attention:  Coca-Cola Valued Youth Introductory Seminar • Fax with a purchase order to IDRA at 210-444-1714.Registration fee is only $50.

Make checks payable to: Intercultural Development Research Association. Purchase order numbers may be used to reserve space. Full payment prior to the seminar is expected.

Contact Ms. Rosie Perez to register or for more information at IDRA 210-444-1710; fax 210-444-1714; rosie.perez@idra.org and provide your name, title, address and phone number.  

Accommodations
The IDRA Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program Introductory Seminar will be held at Sheraton Houston Brookhollow Hotel – Houston, Texas.

Sheraton Houston Brookhollow Hotel
3000 North Loop West Freeway
Houston, Texas 77092
Single or Double Occupancy: $99 plus tax
Parking is complimentary at this hotel.
Phone: 888-627-8196

Deadline for special rate: October 14, 2009

For special rate, mention: "IDRA Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program."

The Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program’s primary goal is to reduce dropout rates.

Other benefits include:

• Enhanced students’ basic academic skills;
• Strengthening students’ perceptions of self and school;
• Reduced student disciplinary action referrals and absenteeism; and
• Strengthened school-home-community partnerships to increase the level of support available to students at risk of dropping out of school.

For information about the Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program, contact IDRA by: