Education Empowerment Action

Education Empowerment Action offers two options for college planning and success strategies: (1) individualized consulting and (2) workshops. 

In the college planning and success strategies series, you have a choice between comprehensive and concentrative consulting.

Comprehensive consulting is a combination of college planning and success strategies, as well as an introduction to financial aid. 

Concentrative consulting focuses on one topic: college planning and success strategies or an introduction to financial aid.  Topics will include, but will not be limited to:

• Assessing college readiness
• Preparing for college
• Evaluating present academic performance
• College research
• College recruiters and admissions
• Understanding tuition
• Applying to college
• Financial aid eligibility
• FAFSA
• Predatory colleges and universities
• Potential warning sign

Education Consulting and Advocacy provides educational support to students, families, and the community through methods of empowerment.  The purpose for consulting and advocacy is to provide emotional and professional support, as well as guidance to parents and/or students.  We will: 

• Assess the situation requiring consultation and/or advocacy
• Offer interpretation(s) of the situation and suggestions for positive outcomes
• Enable success strategies
• Determine the need for interagency collaboration on behalf of client

Education Empowerment Action consultant will, upon request, accompany parent and/or student to meetings with institutions' administrator(s), as well as,

• Conduct research on behalf of the parent, student, and/or institution
• Intervene on behalf of parent or student

Parents, students, and/or institutions' leaders are encouraged to give suggestions and make criticisms that will be critical to success and win/win outcomes.

The purpose of Leadership Preparation is to encourage, empower, enhance, and foster positive self-esteem, self-love, and community appreciation through leadership preparation.  There are three options offered for Leadership Preparation (1) indvidual, (2) small group or (3) workshop.  Topics include, but will not be limited to

• Other ways of knowing
• Defining power
• Assessing personal power
• Evaluating relationship to power
• Internal leader and the external actor
• Advantages and disadvantages of leadership
• Coping and overcoming barriers
• Courage and risk taking
• Power and Passion

The purpose for providing Tutoring as Advocacy is to provide additional coursework support to students. Tutoring will include, but will not be limited to

• Providing guidance to learning
• Assessing the subject matter
• Assessing student’s learning parameters
• Engage relational techniques
• Review subject matter specific techniques
• Provide critical assignments to yield immediate success
• Debrief and/or review