Children of the Night Tutoring-High School Diploma

                             2022 Tutoring Report (Jan 1 – December 31, 2022)

Our online Zoom tutoring program dovetails with our case management program to help youth with skills and economic alternatives to prostitution. The pandemic challenged our tutoring program because many clients had children at home, were unstable and unable to focus on tutoring.

However, we tutored 2021 hours to 61 students to prepare them to the High School Equivalency Exam in 12 States

            8 youth successfully completed the GED

          14 passed portions of the GED (4 portions – math is the hardest)

         76% were between the ages of 18 & 24

           9% were under 17 (some were children of alumni & we taught them to read

                  so, they could make up for lost time at school)

The profile of our youth included:

            44 females

            17 males

            29 Latino

            21African American

             5 Bi-Racial

             4 Caucasian

             2 Native American

Over ½ were referred by social workers because they were prostituted youth who had aged out of foster care without a high school diploma – a critical step in permanently escaping prostitution.

Links:

• High School Diploma Tutoring for Prostituted Youth

                  Children of the Night Tutoring to Prostituted Youth for the High School Diploma     

                                                  From January 1, 2022 to September 2, 2022

• 1,347 Tutroing Housrs to 50 Students in 11 States

• 13 students passed portions of the GED (4 portions) and continue tutoring

•  6 passed the GED and are on their way to vocational schools, trade schools & colleges

• The ages were mostly 18 - 24

• There were 16 males and 34 females

• Races were distributed among 5 races but the majority were African American or Latino

• Most were referred by social workers (foster children who aged out of foster care without a diploma)

• Shelters, drug programs, parents and others referred the remainder 

                                     ALTHOUGH NO FORMAL REFERRALS ARE REQUIRED

Links:

• Tutoring Reading in Action
• Tutoring Math in Action