EduCare’s Mission:
To inspire and empower young people
to become responsible citizens, compassionate leaders,
and to live their dreams.

Teen Success Training Program (TSTP)

A Collaborative Program partnering A World Fit for Kids!,
EduCare Foundation, Echo Park Boys & Girls Club &
Direction / Belmont High School

A World Fit For Kids! (AWFFK!) and EduCare Foundation have partnered with the Echo Park Boys & Girls Club and Belmont High School’s Direction Program to implement the Teen Success Training Program (TSTP). The Program empowers teens to become successful students and positive contributors to the local community. The Program is designed to:

• Keep high school youth actively engaged in positive activities after school
• Provide students with job training, jobs, and a career path
• Encourage students to graduate high school and consider post-secondary education
• Help students make a difference in their own lives and the lives of others by becoming after school mentors and positive role models to elementary school age children

The Teen Success Training Program is a comprehensive curriculum combining classroom instruction, mentoring, job shadowing, and an internship. AWFFK! provides its Mentoring & Activity Leadership training; EduCare Foundation its personal development, conflict resolution instruction, family involvement, and “portfolio” activities; and Echo Park Boys & Girls Club and Belmont High School’s Direction Program their facilities, teen outreach, sports equipment, transportation, etc.

The teenagers trained in this pilot program are placed with local after school agencies to continue their coaching and cross age mentoring experience as paid instructional aides to neighborhood elementary school children.