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    Diversity Program: The New Jersey All Star Program Development School for Youth

    Date: May 15, 2012, 5:30pm – 8:00pm
    Location:
    Korman AVE Suites
    743 Passaic Avenue
    Clifton, NJ 07012
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    The New Jersey All Star Program

    Development School for Youth (DSL)

    Presented by

    Gloria Strickland, Director of the DSL 

     
     
    We are excited to invite you to learn more about the NJ All Stars, Development School for Youth (DSL) Program and educating you on how the program can help complement your diversity sourcing strategy for hiring top talent.  Please join us to hear about the success with 100+ employers in NJ currently employing DSL students in their organizations.  The NJ companies currently employing students from the DSL Program are Dun & Bradstreet, Deloitte, Lexis-Nexis, Bank of America, Prudential, PSE&G, Metlife, Chubb & Son, Ernst & Young and Tiffany & Company, just to name a few. 
      
    The Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth (DSY) is a leadership-training program for young people between the ages of 16 and 21 that focuses on development. Every year 200 students, recruited from more than 30 high schools across New York City and Newark, NJ are accepted into the Development School's program on the basis of their desire to be leaders. The program partners with corporate professionals and over 100 major corporations in NY and NJ to provide training experiences for the students and summer internships for the DSY graduates.
      
    Gloria B. Strickland has a forty-year record of commitment, innovative leadership and service to New Jersey's inner-city communities.  Strickland is currently the director of the Development School for Youth and Associate Dean of UX, core afterschool program initiatives of the non-profit All Stars Project (ASPNJ), continuing a decade of extraordinary leadership and work in establishing the organization's independent and "out of the box" developmental afterschool model in Newark and surrounding communities.
      
    Under Strickland's leadership, the All Stars Project has become a New Jersey success story, reaching 2,000 poor youths annually with high quality and popular after-school programs, supported by more than 1,000 individuals and corporations.  Strickland has recruited and trained a talented team of program leaders and is now helping to lead an expansion initiative that includes the opening in Newark of a multi-million dollar, 9,000 square ft. All Stars Center for Afterschool Development.  The Scott Flamm Center for Afterschool Development will be a new kind of development institution in New Jersey and nationally, supporting new kinds of relationships between New Jersey's poor and affluent communities and implementing breakthroughs that can bring development and growth into the lives of tens of thousands of young people, their families and communities.
     
    Meet Gloria Strickland and find out about the Development School for Youth, the innovative program where inner-city young people partner with business professionals, develop professional performances and perform successfully in fulltime, paid summer internships throughout New Jersey and New York. Learn how performance, development and this very unique business partnership leads to success for all involved.
     
     
    About the Presenter:
      
    Gloria received her B.A. from Hofstra University and M.A. in Developmental Psychology from New York University. From 1988-1999, she served as executive director of the Somerset Community Action (SCAP) and the Somerset County Head Start in New Jersey. In 1999, Strickland was asked by the All Stars Project, a non-profit operating at that time in NYC where it was founded, to lead its first program expansion and bring an independently funded, breakthrough, performance-based and development-focused model of afterschool to Newark and New Jersey. 
     
     
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    See below to pre-pay by credit card.  If you pay at the door, you must still register so we can get a proper headcount for food.  Please send an email, entering your name in the body of the message where indicated, to Linda Rush.
     
    The first five students to register and pay will be reimbursed at the door.
     
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    Members                                 $45.00             $35.00
    Non Members                          $55.00             $45.00
    In-transition                             $35.00             $25.00
    Matriculated Students               $25.00             $15.00
     
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