Calling All Scholars: HYS Supports Studious Youth Executive director Anthony Byers has answered this Q&A
Hartford Youth Scholars • HYS
Year Established — 2005 First year of programming — 2007
129 Allen Place • Hartford
Mission — Our mission is to help Hartford students change their life through education. Hartford Youth Scholars (HYS) helps highly motivated Hartford students gain access to and graduate from best-fit high schools and colleges. The organization provides Scholars and their families with academic and mentoring support for 10 or more years, beginning the summer before students enter 7th grade and continuing through college graduation. Slogan Changing lives through education Most fulfilling aspect of your work? The most fulfilling aspect of our work is the joy that providing support and equitable opportunity for our Scholars
SCHOOL SCOOP NOTEWORTHY NONPROFITS result, we face an urgency to step up in ways that we never had to before. In 2021, HYS went through a strategic planning process and identified that the overall health and wellness of our Scholars negatively impacted the way our young people were showing up in academic spaces.
860-297-5115 Email abyers@hartfordyouthscholars.org Instagram + Facebook @hartfordyouthscholars www.hartfordyouthscholars.org
Absent proactive and intentional supports in place to inform our work and support our Scholars, we feared a notable decline of our future outcomes. Due to the generosity of our network of supporters, we were able to host town hall discussions about COVID-19 and vaccinations facilitated by Hartford Health Care, shift our programming to a Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum, provide SEL experiential learning experiences through our Beyond
and their families brings, enabling Scholars and families to change their lives through educational opportunity. Your biggest obstacle, and how you overcome it? For a small nonprofit organization, secure and stable funding is always one of our biggest obstacles to overcome. Since the pandemic the opportunity gap has widened, and our Scholars were some of the hardest hit. As a
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