"Champions aren't made in gyms."
- Muhammad Ali
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Aug 20, 2021Get there from here.Check here for The House, Inc.'s SY2021-22 assigned school bus routes for before and after school at its Prince William campus. Serving all public and private schools through assigned school bus routes and other shuttle services.
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Jul 25, 2021The HANGRY Truck: A Mobile Food Market and Street KitchenHunger is everywhere, so are we. This anti-hunger initiative is designed to address real community problems and brings food assistance and hot meals to food insecure children and families.
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Apr 24, 2021The Intersection of Justice and ReconciliationThe House, Inc. hosted its fireside chat with Mr. Shannon LaNier, the sixth great-grandson and lineage of children fathered by the owner, Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings.
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ABOUT
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Named ‘One of the Best’ by the Catalogue for Philanthropy of Greater Washington, The House, Inc. Student Leadership Center, a nationally recognized youth development program is an originator and provider of out-of-school time programs for pre-teens and teens in Greater Washington, D.C. Now in its tenth year, The House ensures that pre-teens and teens are equipped with knowledge and skills they need to become future leaders. The House links young learners to organizations and individuals who offer support for their efforts.
The House, Inc. Student Leadership Center program initiatives work to improve health, education, and employment outcomes for pre-teens and teens to ensure that all young people graduate from high school on course for college.
Advancing its mission to improve the lives of children, The House is also the founder of the National Capital A Cinderella Ball held annually in Washington, DC.
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Helen McCormickFounded The House, Inc. Student Leadership Center in 2005.
Her unique and innovative methodology is successfully reaching contemporary and urban students with a belief that if students want to go far - they need to go together.
The path to life programs at The House, Inc. Student Leadership Center guides thousands of students from elementary through college graduation with enough support to get through the challenges that they are going to face. In her role as President, Helen has been the subject in The Washington Times, Washington Post, SUCCESS Magazine and CNN as she raises awareness and ignites conversation about the issues and challenges affecting the modern student. Helen is the recipient of Washington, D.C. Working Woman Of The Year Award, and named The White House Daily Champion of Change. -
Todd McCormickIs the Executive Director of The House, Inc. Student Leadership Center.
He works closely with The House, Inc.'s Board of Directors and senior staff to accelerate progress and direct out-of-school time initiatives and research in such areas as education, community college prep, low-income parent engagement and long-term poverty tracking, that can have profound effects improving the lives of Greater Washington, D.C. students in need. He was named stakeholder to The White House Let's Move Initiative: America's Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids, and the initiative for The White House My Brother's Keeper Community Challenge.
Todd is the recipient of 2014 'Forty Under 40 Young Professionals to Watch' by Potomac Local and serves as a committee member of The Clinton Foundation 20/30. He is an Advisory Board member of Stratford University’s School of Business.
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The ProblemThe House, Inc. and its partners focus increasingly on reducing the high school dropout rate. The varying needs of low-income youth reveal barriers to success, despite academic achievement, at every stage of the educational pipeline.
This discovery has proven our realization that we must address more than one critical challenge at a time.Read MoreOur ApproachThe House, Inc. is designed to encourage learning and development outside of the typical school day. Our primary model provides a series of programs and services for pre-teens, teenagers and their families.
We want to be accountable for making that difference, so we incorporate data and metrics into all of The House, Inc. programs, which allows us to examine student growth potential.
Whether scaling up some of our longest running programs that address youth employment, leadership, public service and healthy lifestyle choices or starting new efforts to help girls achieve full participation, we believe each initiative makes a measurable difference.Read MoreOur ImpactNearly a decade of research and evaluation shows that kids who participate in The House, Inc.'s out-of-school programs reap a host of positive benefits in a variety of interrelated areas: academic, social, emotional and personal health.
Research data suggests that student participants work hard out of school because The House, Inc. connects their efforts with college and career rewards after high school.Read More -
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BEFORE, AFTER SCHOOL & SUMMER CAMP
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EmpowerMEnt®
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MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE
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FITTING IN
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1K DESTINATION: GRADUATION
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NATIONAL CAPITAL A CINDERELLA BALL
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14000 Crown Court
Suite 105
Woodbridge, VA 22193
Telephone: (703) 909-5459
1455 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20004
Telephone: (202) 280-6371