For Our Youth, For Our Future

Adriane Z. Williams, Director PURPOSE The Daemen College Liberty Partnership Program (DCLPP) is designed to provide students in middle school through grade 12 with a broad range of services and activities aimed at increasing their motivation and ability to graduate from high school and go on to college. The DCLPP seeks to facilitate and enhance the education of our youth at-risk. The program's goals are to increase academic performance levels, enhance the students' self-image, and increase school attendance.	Daemen College Liberty Students at Hamburg H.S. doing "High Ropes Activities".
Sharon Ellison, Daemen College Liberty Student with Donna Shaffner, Director of Undergraduate Admissions.	PARTNERSHIPS Daemen College, as part of its on-going efforts to address societal concerns, works in partnership with South Park High School and Buffalo United Charter School. The program, now in its18th year of operation, is funded by the State Education Department's Pre-Collegiate Preparation Programs Unit, and provides academic, personal and social support services to 180 high school and middle school students and their families. The DCLPP also works in partnership with Hispanics United of Buffalo, Deaconess Family Planning Center, Jewish Community Center, Catholic Charities. Planned Parenthood of Buffalo and the Buffalo-Area Engineering Awareness for Minorities to provide such services.
EVENTS The students and staff of the Daemen College Liberty Partnership Program would like to thank everyone who attended our first annual Valentine's Day Scholarship Dinner Dance. SERVICES The DCLPP has several components. The academic component takes the form of tutoring (both individual and group), and homework assistance, with a focus on core curriculum areas. Beyond academic support, students at risk require additional personal and social support services to enable them to stay in school. Provision of support services of this scope must and are approached as a collaborative effort involving students, parents and the community.	"Liberty Does Daemen" Visiting Niagara Falls and Clifton Hill.
DCLPP assists students with their college search. We take them on college tours, help them with web searches and, by inviting college represntatives to come and speak with our students. Career awareness is also a component of the program and provides opportunities for students to obtain an increased understanding of the world of work. Career workshops, individual discussion, in-school college search seminars, interactions with role models and tours of business sites facilitate this objective. Students from multi-racial, multi-lingual and multi-ethnic groups participate in a variety of activities, many of which are offered both in English and in Spanish. One of the most important goals of the program is to build self-esteem and character. The Daemen College Liberty Partnership program staff work hard to instill in the students a sense of pride in self. Before students can successfully compete for a job or a place in a college's freshman class, they have to believe in themselves and their abilities to achieve.