Project Eye to Eye

Programs and Community Outreach

Mentoring: Empowering Students with Learning Disabilities

Research shows that the most important element in the life success of learning disabled individuals is not IQ or academic success, but self-esteem. Project Eye-To-Eye’s fundamental mission is to give younger learning disabled students hope by bringing a mentor into their lives that can model success and empower younger students to imagine a positive future for themselves.

Art and Empowerment: The Beyond Normal Art Club

Beyond the work of academic empowerment, the Project Eye-To-Eye Programming Model relies on the use of art, broadly defined, as a medium of empowerment. Through art, Project Eye-To-Eye children have the opportunity to access their gift for project-based, spatial, tactile/kinetic, and interpersonal learning within an academic environment. The experience of art empowers students to develop their strengths and validates the unique gifts that are too often ignored within a traditional educational paradigm.

Project Eye-To-Eye is the first and only program in the nation to expose LD/ADHD students to high-end art projects designed by professional artists. Annually, Project Eye-To-Eye’s artist in residence, a working professional artist, designs a thematically and technically sophisticated art curriculum that is distributed to each chapter.

Teacher Training: Teaching Outside the Lines

Central to our mission is educating and empowering teachers and school professionals to support the unique learning needs of LD/ADHD students. To address this need for basic information and a non-deficit empowerment model, Project Eye-To-Eye will create Teaching Outside The Lines, a teacher empowerment guide, and distributes this packet, free of cost, to every teacher in our partner schools. Teaching Outside The Lines supports educators in understanding the emotional experience of labeled students; cultivating meta-cognitive skills in labeled students; developing self directed learning strategies for LD/ADHD students; nurturing passion; and developing/implementing concrete accommodation plans.

Youth Speakers Board: Mouth-To-Mouth: Young LD/ADHD Public Speakers Breathing Life Into The Public Discourse on LD/ADHD

Research suggests that teachers’ attitudes concerning LD/ADHD students are most effectively modified, not by academic lectures or professionals, but by individuals sharing their personal LD/ADHD success stories. A core element of Project Eye-To-Eye’s programming is our grassroots speaking network. This is a speaking board led by Jonathan Mooney, consisting entirely of LD/ADHD individuals. Project Eye-To-Eye trains each of our site coordinators in public speaking skills and facilitation at our annual Organizing Institute (OI); a leadership conference for chapter coordinators. In 2004-2005, Mouth-To-Mouth gave over 100 public presentations to over 20,000 educators, parents and students.

Parent Outreach: Parent Empowerment and Resource Guide

Research shows that parents of LD/ADHD students are often divided from each other, uninformed of their legal rights, and disempowered by the institution of education. To address this disempowerment, Project Eye-To-Eye has created a Parent Empowerment and Resource Guide providing parents with concrete learning strategies, contact information for local LD/ADHD advocacy organizations, and a clear concrete break down of the basic rights of LD/ADHD students in both public and private school settings. This guide is distributed to all Project Eye-To-Eye parents and community shareholders.

College Mentoring

Building on David Flink’s, Project Eye-To-Eye Managing Director, experience as an admission officer at Brown University, Project Eye-To-Eye provides fee based counseling serves to a limited number of LD/ADHD students. Project Eye-To-Eye believes that the college application process can be one of personal exploration and metacognitive growth and we are the only organization in the country providing this type of mentoring in the college process for LD/ADHD students. In the academic year of 2004/2005 Project Eye-To-Eye’s college mentees were accepted at U-Penn, NYU, Rollins, and the merit program of Lesley College among other regionally and national recognized institutions of higher education.

Project Eye-To-Eye Summer Fellowship

From a national applicant pool, two LD/ADHD summer fellows are selected each year. These summer fellows work one on one with Project Eye-To-Eye’s managing director, David Flink, learning concrete leadership, organizational, community organizing and capacity building skills. This fellowship provides a unique experience for an LD/ADHD student to see first hand the inner workings of a national non-profit. Through research on art based empowerment models, social entrepreneurship, and LD/ADHD social constructions, the fellowship culminates with the selected fellows participation in the Project Eye-To-Eye Organizing Institute.

Project Eye-To-Eye Organizing Institute

Project Eye-To-Eye’s Youth Organizing Institute empowers our chapter coordinators, all LD/ADHD high school and college students, and Project Eye-To-Eye fellows to become leaders, organizers, and agents for change within their local LD/ADHD community. Project Eye-To-Eye’s OI provides youth coordinators and Project Eye-To-Eye fellows interactive workshops, lectures, and activities that build coordinators and fellows skills in LD/ADHD analysis, LD/ADHD community asset mapping, facilitation, and public speaking.

Project Eye-To-Eye College Scholarship

Annually, Project Eye-To-Eye awards a scholarship to a college bound LD/ADHD student mentored at a Project Eye-To-Eye chapter. The recipient of this scholarship has demonstrated both academic achievement and a commitment to community service. This years recipient, Justin Andrews, has been mentored in Project Eye-To-Eye for the past seven years and will attend the nationally ranked Johnson and Wales University School of the Culinary Arts.

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Donate Now Project Eye-To-Eye Sites How To Start Your Site Newsletter Programs and Community Outreach e-Mentoring (Mentors and Alum only)	Programs and Community Outreach Mentoring: Empowering Students with Learning Disabilities Research shows that the most important element in the life success of learning disabled individuals is not IQ or academic success, but self-esteem. Project Eye-To-Eye’s fundamental mission is to give younger learning disabled students hope by bringing a mentor into their lives that can model success and empower younger students to imagine a positive future for themselves. Art and Empowerment: The Beyond Normal Art Club Beyond the work of academic empowerment, the Project Eye-To-Eye Programming Model relies on the use of art, broadly defined, as a medium of empowerment. Through art, Project Eye-To-Eye children have the opportunity to access their gift for project-based, spatial, tactile/kinetic, and interpersonal learning within an academic environment. The experience of art empowers students to develop their strengths and validates the unique gifts that are too often ignored within a traditional educational paradigm. Project Eye-To-Eye is the first and only program in the nation to expose LD/ADHD students to high-end art projects designed by professional artists. Annually, Project Eye-To-Eye’s artist in residence, a working professional artist, designs a thematically and technically sophisticated art curriculum that is distributed to each chapter. Teacher Training: Teaching Outside the Lines Central to our mission is educating and empowering teachers and school professionals to support the unique learning needs of LD/ADHD students. To address this need for basic information and a non-deficit empowerment model, Project Eye-To-Eye will create Teaching Outside The Lines, a teacher empowerment guide, and distributes this packet, free of cost, to every teacher in our partner schools. Teaching Outside The Lines supports educators in understanding the emotional experience of labeled students; cultivating meta-cognitive skills in labeled students; developing self directed learning strategies for LD/ADHD students; nurturing passion; and developing/implementing concrete accommodation plans. Youth Speakers Board: Mouth-To-Mouth: Young LD/ADHD Public Speakers Breathing Life Into The Public Discourse on LD/ADHD Research suggests that teachers’ attitudes concerning LD/ADHD students are most effectively modified, not by academic lectures or professionals, but by individuals sharing their personal LD/ADHD success stories. A core element of Project Eye-To-Eye’s programming is our grassroots speaking network. This is a speaking board led by Jonathan Mooney, consisting entirely of LD/ADHD individuals. Project Eye-To-Eye trains each of our site coordinators in public speaking skills and facilitation at our annual Organizing Institute (OI); a leadership conference for chapter coordinators. In 2004-2005, Mouth-To-Mouth gave over 100 public presentations to over 20,000 educators, parents and students. Parent Outreach: Parent Empowerment and Resource Guide Research shows that parents of LD/ADHD students are often divided from each other, uninformed of their legal rights, and disempowered by the institution of education. To address this disempowerment, Project Eye-To-Eye has created a Parent Empowerment and Resource Guide providing parents with concrete learning strategies, contact information for local LD/ADHD advocacy organizations, and a clear concrete break down of the basic rights of LD/ADHD students in both public and private school settings. This guide is distributed to all Project Eye-To-Eye parents and community shareholders. College Mentoring Building on David Flink’s, Project Eye-To-Eye Managing Director, experience as an admission officer at Brown University, Project Eye-To-Eye provides fee based counseling serves to a limited number of LD/ADHD students. Project Eye-To-Eye believes that the college application process can be one of personal exploration and metacognitive growth and we are the only organization in the country providing this type of mentoring in the college process for LD/ADHD students. In the academic year of 2004/2005 Project Eye-To-Eye’s college mentees were accepted at U-Penn, NYU, Rollins, and the merit program of Lesley College among other regionally and national recognized institutions of higher education. Project Eye-To-Eye Summer Fellowship From a national applicant pool, two LD/ADHD summer fellows are selected each year. These summer fellows work one on one with Project Eye-To-Eye’s managing director, David Flink, learning concrete leadership, organizational, community organizing and capacity building skills. This fellowship provides a unique experience for an LD/ADHD student to see first hand the inner workings of a national non-profit. Through research on art based empowerment models, social entrepreneurship, and LD/ADHD social constructions, the fellowship culminates with the selected fellows participation in the Project Eye-To-Eye Organizing Institute. Project Eye-To-Eye Organizing Institute Project Eye-To-Eye’s Youth Organizing Institute empowers our chapter coordinators, all LD/ADHD high school and college students, and Project Eye-To-Eye fellows to become leaders, organizers, and agents for change within their local LD/ADHD community. Project Eye-To-Eye’s OI provides youth coordinators and Project Eye-To-Eye fellows interactive workshops, lectures, and activities that build coordinators and fellows skills in LD/ADHD analysis, LD/ADHD community asset mapping, facilitation, and public speaking. Project Eye-To-Eye College Scholarship Annually, Project Eye-To-Eye awards a scholarship to a college bound LD/ADHD student mentored at a Project Eye-To-Eye chapter. The recipient of this scholarship has demonstrated both academic achievement and a commitment to community service. This years recipient, Justin Andrews, has been mentored in Project Eye-To-Eye for the past seven years and will attend the nationally ranked Johnson and Wales University School of the Culinary Arts.
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