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REAL Skills 2.0

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REAL Skills 2.0 (RS2)

The REAL Skills 2.0 (RS2) Program offers a curriculum led by CAYF staff, scholars, alumni and other professional volunteers who help Detroit area youth and their parents/caregivers plan productive post-secondary lives.

REAL Skills is a separate program from the Coleman A. Young Scholars Program. Participants are not guaranteed scholarships, but they are encouraged and prepared to apply for the foundation's scholarship, and for other awards.

The program achieves this objective by creating awareness of, and preparing for, the challenges students may face in high school and beyond.
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The program serves 150 sixth through twelfth graders and their parents, annually, from the Metro Detroit area.

Purpose​

​To provide sixth through twelfth graders experience with meaningful information and valuable tools for a positive middle and high school experience. The intent is for students to “begin with the end in mind.” A secondary purpose of the REAL Skills 2.0 Program is to help reduce the alarming drop-out rate that occurs between the middle and high school years.

This 26-week program includes: preparing for educational opportunities beyond high school; building career awareness and exploring employment options; understanding personal finance and managing personal and professional relationships. The program also covers current events, political and social history and geography, in order to expand the participant’s view of their possibilities.

Eligibility

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  • Sixth through twelfth grade students who are Metropolitan Detroit area residents.
  • Students must complete the RS2 application process for consideration.
  • Ability to actively and consistently participate – students should not be participating in other activities that conflict with RS2 meeting dates and times.
  • ​Preference will be given to students with below normal GPA’s and from households with low-to-moderate income.
  
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Boys and Girls Club
24 Ferris Street
​Highland Park, MI 48203
  

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Coleman A. Young Foundation
8425 W. McNichols Rd
Madame Cadillac, Ste. 248
Detroit, Michigan 48221

313.962-2200 phone

313.962.2208 fax

​Federal Tax ID#: 38-2400801

CAYF is a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization established in 1982 to provide financial support and mentor young Detroiters who seek a college education. CAYF has provided over 450 college scholarships to eligible students from Detroit schools, of all backgrounds.
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Acceptance and participation in our scholarship and after school program are the same for everyone without regard to religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, handicap or sexual preference.​

What Our Scholars Have to Say

"I would not have been able to live in D.C. for those summers when I had the internships on Capitol Hill if not for the Coleman A. Young Foundation."
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Arthur Harrington, Hampton University, Class of '24

"I love Coleman A. Young Foundation. CAYF has been a backbone to me."
- Tia Prescott, Michigan State University




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