16121 Joy Road Detroit MI 48228 313-846-6942 Fax: 313-846-4044
EDUCATION: NON-RESIDENT ADMISSION
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16121 Joy Road Detroit MI 48228 313-846-6942 Fax: 313-846-4044 EDUCATION: NON-RESIDENT ADMISSION |
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St. Peter's Home for Boys believes there are a group of adolescents, which society see as throwaways We work to recover them. For over 50 years, we have done this by providing residential care. But we do not believe this is enough. We must now reach out to others who need educational care. We must reach out to other teens. We need to reach out and help troubled and troubling adolescents who will become troubled and troubling adults because they have dropped out of high school. In our efforts to solve the problems of our own boys we have discovered a solution for the troubled and troubling students in a community.
Unfortunately St. Peter's Home for Boys does not have the only teenagers who become high school dropouts. The rate of high school dropouts has steadily declined nationally since the beginning of the nineties. But in Wayne County since mid-nineties the rate of dropouts has again begun to climb again. In Detroit Public Schools the rate is at epidemic proportions. Forty percent (40%) of students entering the ninth grader will drop out before graduation. In Wayne County the rate of students dropping out is twenty-five (25%).This compares with a national percentage of under ten percent (10%).
The Literacy Education and Arts started by combining an art skill's program in Stained Glass with a G.E.D. preparatory program. The Literacy Education and Arts is now in its seventh year of addressing the needs of high school dropouts. Students have completed the program at a rate over 40% during the previous six years. During the first four years 90% of the students were residents of St. Peter's Home for Boys The Literacy Education and Arts is now open to any adolescent who has reached the point where high school graduation is unlikely because of behavioral, emotional, or academic shortages. It is open to all high school dropouts between 15.5-19 years old in the Detroit Metropolitan Area. Preference is given to those currently in the foster care system in residential placements, foster homes or Supervised Independent living placements. Non-foster care adolescents will be considered on a case by case basis |
Non Resident Admission Requirements
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