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Application Abstract

Project Title:New Horizons Program
Project Director: Dr. Fay Freeman
Organization: Victor Valley College
Phone: (760)245-4271,ext.2414

The Victor Valley College New Horizons Project is designed to serve the growing number of single parents who are returning to an educational learning environment in order to improve vocational skills and improve their living conditions. The paradigm shift will focus on transition for displaced homemakers from dependancy to economic self-sufficency. Major target groups shall be economically disadvantaged and minority women.

The project will address these objectives:

  1) To increase life long learning educational opportunities for 30 single parents/displaced homemakers to transition from dependency to self-sufficiency.  
 
2) To develop an academy program for 30 single parents/displaced homemakers that will provide self-esteem building, cultural diversity, non-traditional career information and academic educational plans. 		 
     
3) To provide job placement information and assistance for single parents/displaced homemakers. 		     

The activities to accomplish these objectives include outreach (advertising and recruitment), orientation, assessment and testing, career/educational counseling, life skill development, pre-employment preparation, linkage with campus supportive services, referrals to other community services (health care, legal aid, etc.) and job placement.

The New Horizons Project will be evaluated on the basis of acheivement of the stated objectives. We plan to enroll 30 single parents/displaced homemakers and graduate 70% percent.