Sustainer

EMBRACE OUR VISION TO EMPLOY FUTURE LEADERS

Industry Standard Skills

Our schools need help in reaching underserved communities and our kids need to know their community cares. According to the 2018-2019 Racial Equity Report Card issued by Southern Coalition for Social Justice’s, White students in grades 3-8 were 2.4X times more likely to score “Career and College Ready” on final exams than Black students. Black students were 7.4X times more likely than White students to receive a short-term suspension. 28.5% of all juvenile delinquency complaints in the County were school-related.

You Can Make a Difference Every Month.

The TMT Youth Community Foundation’s Sustainer Program is a program that invites our followers, and fans to contribute to the work we do. If you can’t show up and be present at our events or volunteer time, the Sustainer Program is a good way to be involved. The primary focus of this organization is to expose and train youth of color living in vulnerable communities in S.T.E.A.M careers to prepare them for post secondary education and entrepreneurial success in our global economy. Through extended learning programs, our organization engages youth ages 8-25. Our mission is to employ underprivileged youth and to develop a new innovative educational system that delivers economic opportunity to impoverished communities.

What is a Sustainer

It’s a convenient, cost-saving way to steadily invest in the extending learning programs the TMT Youth Community Foundation provides each year. You save the time of sending contributions while reducing our gift-processing and mailing costs, an extra gift to the organization.

The Sustainer Program funds programs that work to provide:

  • Industry Standard Skill Sets
  • Youth Developed Media Campaigns
  • FIRST Robotics Competition Team
  • Higher Education & Entrepreneurial Skills
  • Early Childhood Literacy
  • Leadership Skills

TMT Youth Programs uses real-life approaches and hands-on projects to blend academic and career/technical content in making learning more authentic for students. TMT Youth programs have a cradle-to-career agenda that helps ensure access to S.T.E.A.M for urban minority youth.

  • Integrated Academic and Career-Focused Learning: TMT Project Communications will provide students with education and training that combines rigorous academic and career-focused curriculum to increase students' employability in in-demand industries and prepare them for employment, post-secondary education, long-term occupational skills training, or registered apprenticeships.

  • Work-Based Learning and Exposure to the World of Work: Strong partnerships will provide work-based learning opportunities. In addition to actual work experience, youth participants will also participate in field trips, job-shadowing, or other types of opportunities that provide students with exposure to different career paths and prepare them for the world of work.

  • TMT Community Network Engagement: Network partners will provide work-based learning and mentoring, creating a path for students to in-demand industries and occupations including those in information technologies, advanced manufacturing and other science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (S.T.E.A.M) fields. The TMT Community Network will also work closely with schools on professional development and training for staff to drive the sustainability of the program over the long term.

  • Individualized Career and Academic Counseling: As an integral part of the program design, students will be provided with individualized career and academic counseling experiences to strengthen their career and post-secondary awareness and explore opportunities beyond high school.

  • Integration of Post-secondary Education and Training: Students will participate in education and training, while they are still in high school, that leads to credit toward a post-secondary degree or certificate and an industry recognized credential, where appropriate

Extended Learning

Our youth programs engage and enrich students and provide many more of our students with firm foundations for success. Youth Programs also help reduce stress on many working parents to know their children are safe and supervised. Our youth programs has increased the number of Wake County youth who achieved a postsecondary credential and living-wage employment.

The TMT Youth Community Foudation has connected with like-minded individuals in Wake County to form partnerships that agree to help produce youth curriculum that asist youth graduating from high school, succeeding in college and finding employment.

Exposure to high-quality STEM learning opportunities prepares youth to enter a dynamic workforce as competent, well-equipped professionals that can address issues at the moment with viable, innovative solutions. To achieve this, it is imperative to ensure youth exposure to STEM content extends beyond regular school hours. In a 2019 study, researchers found that youth that participated in OST STEM programming maintained an interest in STEM content beyond their participation in the OST programs (Burack, Melchior, & Hoover, 2019). The long-term positive impacts of exposure to STEM learning opportunities can be monumental for youth if they can obtain access to high-quality OST programming.
Public School Forum of North Carolina

School-to-Prison Pipeline

The practice of pushing kids out of school and toward the juvenile and criminal justice systems has become known as the “school-to-prison pipeline,”. Fueled by zero tolerance policies and the presence of police officers in schools, these excessive practices have resulted in the suspensions, expulsions, and arrests of tens of millions of public school students, especially students of color and those with disabilities. Research suggest that schools with strict disciplinary measure are more likely to have students later incarcerated or arrested as adults,

Incarceration in the United States is a primary form of punishment. The United States has the largest prison population in the world, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate. One out of every 5 people imprisoned across the world is incarcerated in the United States. Prison, parole, and probation operations generate an $81 billion annual cost to U.S. taxpayers, with an additional $63 billion for policing (criminal law only). Court costs, bail bond fees, and prison phone fees generate another $38 billion in individual costs. Our sustainer program supports children that have been long term suspended and put students back on track for success.

What We Do