Elementary: Read to Succeed
Read to Succeed meets twice a week after school as part of a partnership with the Annapolis Maritime Museum & Park (AMM) to provide students with individual, evidence-based tutoring, mentoring, early college and career readiness education, and environmental education programming. Weekly sessions include college and career readiness and mental health mini-lessons, individualized tutoring with culturally relevant texts, ongoing communication, time with trained counselors, and partnership with families. Staff work with students and families to set and work towards personal and academic goals, which they continue throughout their journey with Charting Careers. Young scholars also enjoy and benefit from the incredible AMM hiking trails, kayaking, seining, and so much more!
Middle School: Discover Your Story
When students graduate from our elementary program, they continue into our middle school program which meets twice a week after school in partnership with Annapolis Maritime Museum & Park. Sessions focus on mental health, prevention, building trusting relationships, community building and college and career readiness topics (e.g., goal setting, career exploration, and resume development), and environmental education. Students will also connect once a week with their individual mentor. Throughout the year, students attend various field trips, including college visits and trips to the theaters and museums designed to close the opportunity gap. Staff provide weekly outreach and connection with families, in addition to quarterly family night events focused on different mental health topics.
High School: Create Your Story
Charting Careers collaborates with high school youth to help promote hope, self-understanding, and vision so that youth create their own life story and chart a path to success. Alongside these youth, staff and volunteers' life stories are also expanded through new experiences and relationships.
Each student receives a variety of opportunities designed to support their success in high school and to develop and tackle achievable college and/or career plans. Programming includes coordination with high school staff, regular monitoring of grades through Power School, professional college/career advising services, college tours, resume development, life skills workshops, and individual mentoring relationships.
Mentors receive ongoing training and support and also participate in individual goal setting.
Beyond High School: Live Your Story
Staff and volunteers continue to collaborate with our high school graduates through 24 years of age. Since so many of our students are the first in their family to attend college or a credentialing program, the Charting Careers community builds social and cultural capital that helps young adults navigate barriers and promote opportunities (e.g., finding summer internships, understanding the importance of office hours, managing money).
Our scholarship fund helps eliminate gaps that cannot be addressed through traditional scholarships, ranging from dorm room bedding, to a laptop computer, to a suit for a job interview. Having created their story and charted their path, Charting Careers graduates are now ready to live their story!