{"id":4,"date":"2015-11-20T03:06:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T03:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/new0\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:57:28","slug":"our-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/our-work\/our-work\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/01\/DSC_3222-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6238 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/01\/DSC_3222-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"617\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/01\/DSC_3222-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/01\/DSC_3222-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/01\/DSC_3222-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/01\/DSC_3222-391x260.jpg 391w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/01\/DSC_3222-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/01\/DSC_3222-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/01\/DSC_3222-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">New Settlement provides a range of services that guide our community\u2019s first-generation college-aspiring youth through the steps necessary to identify, prepare for and apply to college and secure financial aid. Embedded in a storefront in the Mount Eden Community and in schools in the surrounding neighborhood, the College Access Center provides one-on-one college admissions and financial aid guidance; SAT preparation classes, college visits, and early college awareness workshops to high school students and their families. Once in college, our success component ensures that students receive ongoing guidance and support to ensure that they adapt to life in college and stay on track to complete their degree.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a class=\"_ps2id\" href=\"#one\">School Based and Community Based 1:1 College and Financial Aid Advising<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a class=\"_ps2id\" href=\"#success\">Support for Students in College<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a class=\"_ps2id\" href=\"#trips\">College Trips, SAT Prep and College Prep Workshops<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a id=\"one\"><\/a> School Based and Community-Based 1:1 College and Financial Aid Advising<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/12\/Picture-I-am-College-Bound.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-640 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/12\/Picture-I-am-College-Bound-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/12\/Picture-I-am-College-Bound-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/12\/Picture-I-am-College-Bound-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/12\/Picture-I-am-College-Bound-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/12\/Picture-I-am-College-Bound-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">College advisors provide one-to-one, comprehensive college counseling, including financial aid guidance, to 11th and 12th grade high school students and HSE recipients. \u00a0Participants work closely with counselors to prepare and plan for their college application process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Working closely with their counselor, each student develops a well-researched \u2018college list\u2019 that is reflective of their academic strengths and their interests. Each is guided through the process of applying for absolutely all financial aid for which they qualify. In this way, our students apply to the very best colleges for which they qualify academically, and which offer the most generous financial aid and opportunity programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a id=\"success\"><\/a>Support for Students in College<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-06-at-10.56.47-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6146\" src=\"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-06-at-10.56.47-AM-300x209.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-06-at-10.56.47-AM-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-06-at-10.56.47-AM-1024x714.png 1024w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-06-at-10.56.47-AM-768x536.png 768w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-06-at-10.56.47-AM-1536x1071.png 1536w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-06-at-10.56.47-AM-2048x1428.png 2048w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-06-at-10.56.47-AM-860x600.png 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New Settlement places special emphasis on providing services and supports to ensure that college-bound youth adjust to life in a new community, take advantage of opportunities available to them in college, and stay on-track to complete their degree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Our one-on one success advising is designed to (a) help students strategize about personal, social, academic issues\/challenges that impact success in college; (b) assess credits to track progress; (c) ensure that students select a suitable major; (d) work with students on strategies to improve performance (time management, money management, using campus resources, etc.); (e) assist with financial-aid completion and renewal; (f) connect students w\/tutoring, advising, and other key campus resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Students attending college at one of CUNY\u2019s 19 senior colleges or community colleges receive an even greater level of support from the College Success Program. Success Counselors visit the CUNY campuses more frequently \u2013 at least once a month and as often as once a week<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"trips\"><\/a>Workshops and College Trips<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/College-visit-to-Barnard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-135 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/College-visit-to-Barnard-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/College-visit-to-Barnard-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/College-visit-to-Barnard-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/College-visit-to-Barnard-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsettlement.org\/cac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/College-visit-to-Barnard-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">New Settlement offers workshops and summer programs to help students and their parents to understand and prepare for the college admissions process:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>College Awareness Workshops <\/b>are designed to expose students to all aspects of the college admissions and financial aid process. Workshop topics include:<b>\u00a0<\/b>college exploration and research; analysis of personal academic strengths and interests; step-by-step guidance on college application and financial aid applications; \u00a0interview skills; and preparation for the adjustment to college life.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>College Trips:\u00a0<\/strong>Recognizing that some families may not have the financial resources needed to visit college campuses, New Settlement offers trips to visit colleges and universities in the region to help students develop an understanding of college life and culture.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Our six week<b> SAT Test Prep Class <\/b>is\u00a0offered twice a year to students preparing for college admissions examinations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Settlement provides a range of services that guide our community\u2019s first-generation college-aspiring youth through the steps necessary to identify, prepare for and apply to college and secure financial aid. 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