Results List
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Graduating Seniors Testify to Elev8’s Strengths
Source: LISC Chicago
Watch four high school seniors reminisce about their middle-school experiences with Elev8, a community schools initiative helping to prepare sixth- through eighth-grade students for high school and beyond. Through the Elev8 program, these students participated in after-school activities, used the health centers built at their…
Resource type: Video
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School-Based Health Centers in an Era of Health Care Reform: Building on History
Source: The University of California, San Francisco, Department of Family Health Care Nursing
School-based health centres (SBHCs) play an important role in improving the health and well-being of youth, according to an article in Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care Journal prepared by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Family Health Care Nursing.…
Resource type: Research Report
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Highlights from the Elev8 Learning Institute, April 21- 23, 2010
The Institute is a learning opportunity for Elev8 stakeholders, designed to draw from and build on the deep experiences and expertise of all participants to strengthen Elev8 services, advocacy and community organizing efforts. The video showcases highlights from the conference that took place from April…
Resource type: Video
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Shining Bright
Source: StoryCorps
For a lot of young people, middle school can be a really hard time. Find out how Elev8 community schools helped Haley Junico, a shy student living on the Laguna tribal reservation in New Mexico, to find her voice. To Learn More about Elev8: >…
Resource type: Video
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Strategies for Implementing School-Based Services
Source: Child Trends
Top practitioners and policymakers from New Mexico share what they learned in implementing school-based health services and extended learning opportunities in this case study prepared by Child Trends. Elev8 New Mexico is an initiative of the Children & Youth Programme of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and…
Resource type: Research Report
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Public/Private 2008 Annual Report Prominently Features Atlantic Grantees
Source: Public/ Private Ventures
Public/Private Ventures features its research and training work on several Atlantic Philanthropies grantees in the United States including Higher Achievement, Elev8, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Amachi, and Experience Corps in this 2008 annual report. P/PV is also an Atlantic grantee. The 2008 Annual Report from Public/Private Ventures prominently features several Atlantic grantees,…
Resource type: Research Report
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New Mexico ISS Convening Remarks
Source: Jackie Williams Kaye
Remarks of Jackie Williams Kaye, Strategic Learning & Evaluation Executive, The Atlantic Philanthropies, at the New Mexico Convening of Integrated Services in Schools (ISS). I am very happy to be here on behalf of Atlantic together with my colleagues Mini, Nicole and Alice. Alice Duff…
Resource type: Speech
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The Key Role of Advocacy Funding in the U.S. Health Reform Debate
Source: Gara LaMarche
The reasons why The Atlantic Philanthropies made what may be the largest U.S. advocacy grant ever in order to support health reform are outlined by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Grantmakers in Health conference in Orlando, Florida. Occasionally it is better not…
Resource type: Speech