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Core Course #1: The FuerZlls Ul1idllS PI'O ram: An Overview IV. Course Activities During the first half-hour, the youth will introducc thcmselves and describe key circumstances to their lives. The second two hours will be dedicated to lntake and Assessment. The last hour of thc session will consist of a rcview of all printed materials about the program and its components. The scssion will culminate with a signed contract betwecn the youth and CHCADA's FlIcrzas Unidas staff. Core Course #2: That Thill" Clllled EdllClllioll ~ Education Readiness and Vocational Needs 1. COURSE DESCRIPTION The youth in the program should have spent 30 to 35 of their waking hours each week in an educational institution. This course will bc designed to inform the participants regarding the specific role that education plays or can play in their lives. These units will be designed to encourage the youth to examine their interpersonal relationships with their education and to identify factors in the educational environment that may contribute to their problems. These sessions will also allow the youth to identify barriers within their environment that serve as impediments to their efforts to be productive. II. Course Objectives After completing this session, each pal1icipant will be able to: ./ Compare and contrast the differences in income and earnings of persons by educational lcvel; ./ Compare and contrast differences in marriage and divorce rates by educational level; ./ Compare and contrast differences in mortality and morbidity rates by educational level; ./ Compare and contrast differences in rates of reportcd happiness and life satisfaction by educational level; ./ List other dilTerences in lifc outcomes by educational level; ./ Extract ii'om within themselves their "true" feelings about education; ./ Identify and describe the experience within the educational environment that helped to shape thcse feelings; ./ Describe what the youth feel about their future; ./ Write a Personal Education Plan that outlines what their educational objectives are and how these will be achieved. ./ Collect applications and catalogs so that they can begin learning about the application process; and ./ Begun to disassociate education from their particular experiences at their school. UI. Course Activities CHCADA will invite a Professor of Labor Economics or a Human Resources Manager to give a presentation to the participants on the benefits of investing in human capital. The obJective of this activity is that of convincing the youth that independently of what they may think of school, cducation is an instrumcnt of change, growth, and improvement. The activities in this segment must also emphasizc that education is even more important to minorities than it is CHCADA's Response to RFP# PY2002 Page 21