About CRFT

Crossroads for Teens (CRFT)
CRFT Premise - Funding exists for every student’s gifts, talents, and passions

• What: Career and college planning

• Who: Middle an

• d high school students

• Where: Local meeting site or virtually

• When: Monthly between September and May

• How: Structured research and planning activities

• Why: 87% ($12M) total cost of attendance merit awards p

• ast 10 years

• Cost:

• $210 annual subscription

• 15 hour monthly commitment

Contact Kirk Patterson at hudgroup@bellsouth.net or 770-827-4324

Program Description

CRFT integrates proven career and college planning techniques to guide participants in finding the right fit and the funding to pay for it. Ultimately, students will identify how their passion, gifts, and talents qualify them for college, graduate, and career merit awards.

Program Beneficiaries

Middle school students will benefit from a long-range focus that will improve their high school experience, identify the right vocational or college fit, and maximize the funding sources for it.

High school students will benefit from a focus on how their gifts, talents, and passions maximize the merit award from the institutions for which it is the right fit.

Parents from every economic stratum will benefit from a structured approach that maximizes support and resources, engages their student, and increases the pool of funding for their career path.

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CRFT will enlist volunteer career professionals, vocational experts, college planning advisors, and interested parents to collaborate on mentoring students through career and college planning. CRFT leverages proven techniques, protocols and planning activities that empower its volunteers in providing relevant advice, insight, and guidance.

Students will access CRFT activities on a digital platform at a time most convenient for them. They will meet virtually or on-site to discuss how the activity results impact on their career and college plan.

CRFT places students in a cohort of their peers with an emphasis on grade-appropriate outcomes from the activities, as described below.  Individuals will complete individual activities/exercises and then convene small groups within their cohort to discuss, explore and determine their career pathways.

• The Primary Cohort (6th, 7th, 8th graders) define themselves, determine their aptitude, uncover their passion, inventory family resources, and establish student work habits

• The Freshman Cohort (9th graders) develop a plan for high school, including academic courses, extracurricular activities, leadership opportunities, volunteer opportunities, and build on student work habits.

• The Sophomore Cohort (10th graders) develop a plan for college, including the identification of up to 10 colleges which align with their ambitions and aptitude. Students line up letters of recommendation, establish good academic performance, grow leadership experiences, grow community service experiences, identify a tentative career path, select 3 colleges that best fit them academically and the family financially, and engage with those schools to develop a relationship.

• The Junior Cohort (11th graders) develop a plan for career training or graduate work. Students will identify up to 10 graduate schools or career tracks which align with their ambitions and aptitude. They will select 3 to contact, discuss, and with which develop a relationship. Students will secure and review letters of recommendation, grow leadership experiences, grow community service experiences, maintain high academic performance, and identify graduate school

• The Senior Cohort (12th graders) identify up to 10 Great Places to work which are aligned with your ambitions and aptitude. They will finalize their vocation or college list, secure letters of recommendations, grow their leadership and community service profile, and maintain good grades. They will research internships to engage institutions that could likely PAY for graduate work

Contact Kirk Patterson at hudgroup@bellsouth.net or 770-827-4324

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