Partnership Development

Partnership

If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes community partners to encourage our high school students to be all that they can be through further education.

A group of dedicated community partners work with the College Access Center through the Lumina Partnership for College Access and Success (PCAS) to this effort. We work as a group and individually to encourage Hamilton County students and their families to seek out the local resources that are already available to them that can make college both accessible and affordable. We do this through our own organizations and as a whole, ensuring that every child knows that he or she can go to college if he or she dreams of doing so (and to ensure that all students have access to that dream). Our target communities are in the districts of the current PCAS schools – Howard High School, Red Bank High School, Sale Creek School and Brainerd High School – but we hope to expand this to include all Hamilton County students, particularly potential first -generation college students, in the coming years.

We welcome partners from businesses, religious organizations and community groups to join us in this effort. If you are interested in participating or in just learning more, please contact us using the information at the bottom of this page.

See who serves on the PCAS Steering Commitee...

Social Marketing

After investigating many forms of publicity – from billboards to websites to mailings – and holding a group discussion with high school students and first-generation college students and recent graduates. Through this discussion and investigation we discovered that the best way to market this concept is the personal voice of a young person who can individually speak with high school students and their families.

From this basic idea grew our internship program in which college students who grew up in the target communities spend a summer meeting with the families in their area to encourage consideration of college and to provide them with support and information needed so that they can take the next step from making a dream into a reality.