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New Partnership to Address Educational Needs of 200 Brooklyn At-Risk Youth
City Tech has been awarded a one-year $197,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to fund a new partnership with Passages Academy. The academy is a local high school program that provides educational opportunity to 4,000 court-referred at-risk youth citywide. The Justice Department funding will enable City Tech to provide training in various technology and healthcare areas to an estimated 200 youth served by the Passages program.
Selected youths will participate in mentoring and academic enrichment sessions for 10 weeks each semester during the academic year. An on-campus conference for at-risk youth and various community agencies and related concerns will be held late next spring or early summer at the conclusion of the program.
The Justice Department grant will facilitate the purchase of a Konica CR Express and CD workstation for City Tech’s radiologic technology and medical imaging program. The new equipment will be used for health careers instruction, demonstrations and mentoring for the participating at-risk youth. Through both group and one-on-one instruction, participating students will receive training in computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, digital imaging, interventional radiography, cardiac catherization, picture archiving and communication, as well as the role of radiographers in healthcare and requirements for a career in radiography and medical imaging. Students will also receive instruction and mentoring in dental hygiene.
Grant funding will also be used for the purchase of equipment from Cisco Systems and Scharf/Weisberg Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of audio and lighting equipment. The new equipment will augment a program of instruction, demonstrations and mentoring provided by the College’s School of Technology & Design in the areas of media production, packaging and distribution, and electronic and traditional media arts. The grant will also fund technical support for computerized systems used throughout the transportation and finance industries, among others.
The grant was obtained through the efforts of Congressman Ed Towns (D-NY) and City Tech’s Office of Research, Governmental & Corporate Affairs. Dr. Jerome H. Blue, vice president for research, governmental and corporate affairs, Dean Robin Bargar, School of Technology & Design, Professor Mary Alice Browne, chair of the Department of Radiologic Technology & Medical Imaging, and Professor Leonard Friedman, chair of the Department of Dental Hygiene, will oversee implementation of the City Tech/ Passages Academy partnership.
10/24/05
