(BPRW) Howard University Partners with JPMorgan Chase To Offer Four Full-Tuition Scholarships to Young Men in District of Columbia Public Schools | Press releases

(BPRW) Howard University Partners with JPMorgan Chase To Give Four Complete-Tuition Scholarships to Young Adult men in District of Columbia General public Faculties

The University is supporting a new innovative application, which combines JPMorgan Chase’s The Fellowship Initiative and Youth Guidance’s Starting to be a Male, an intense educational, mental overall health and wellness, and college and vocation readiness curriculum for Black, Hispanic and Latino younger guys

(Black PR Wire) Washington, D.C. – All through a launch event at Dunbar High Faculty with JPMorgan Chase and Youth Guidance to announce the D.C. expansion of their respective courses, The Fellowship Initiative (TFI) and Starting to be a Male (BAM), Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick announced the University would grant two complete-tuition scholarships to District of Columbia General public Faculties (DCPS) participants who graduate from the academic, social, psychological and vocation readiness application.  

Howard has extensive held a motivation to educate, aid and inspire Black and brown guys and women in American modern society and all over the world. In every of its 14 schools and schools, Howard University seeks to develop technically competent and morally dedicated people, and equally the BAM and TFI courses additional that mission.  

Dr. Frederick surprised the audience of younger men and his staff with the news on December onest while sharing his closing remarks.  

“Students at D.C. General public Faculties are some of the brightest and most formidable I have at any time encountered. All they need to excel in daily life, to become a leader in their decided on professions and to realize their complete potential is an opportunity,” said Dr. Frederick. “We are privileged to aid two DCPS graduates who make a decision to matriculate to Howard. These students will certainly effects and alter the world close to them, and I am psyched that Howard will enjoy an essential element in their tale as the University has performed an integral job in mine.” 

JPMorgan Chase agreed to match Howard University’s award, with the partnership offering a total of four complete-tuition scholarships to TFI/BAM graduates of DCPS who apply and are recognized into the University. Students will have to preserve a GPA of at the very least three.2 to get their scholarship.

Dr. Frederick also announced that Howard University would cover the remaining tuition for Sagid Mohamed, Howard sophomore and alumnus of the TFI application, whose tuition was earlier only partially funded by financial assist and scholarships. Mohamed spoke at the party about how his TFI expertise prepared him to succeed at Howard. 

“It’s awesome to see these kinds of large organizations truly believe that in the value of investing in younger guys of color and communities of color,” stated Mohamed. “And then at the finish [of the party], I acquired amazed with a scholarship, and I acquired caught off guard. I’m speechless. It’s surreal. I’m without end grateful to Howard University and Dr. Wayne Frederick.”  

The multi–year school-primarily based program will deliver educational coaching, college and vocation readiness products and services, social and mental overall health aid, and management progress to hundreds of high school students to assistance set them on a route toward better economic mobility. Students will also be matched with a mentor and accredited clinical counselor. 

JPMorgan Chase’s The Fellowship Initiative released in 2010 and supplies thorough and arms-on educational, mental overall health and wellness support to younger guys of color in high school. In excess of the very last ten years, TFI has matched more than 350 high school fellows in New York, Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles, with JPMorgan Chase mentors. In 2020, TFI dedicated to increasing the application to one,000 more fellows nationally about the next ten decades and has because expanded to Houston and Oakland. The firm’s commitment to the D.C. program is element of its broader $thirty billion racial equity commitment and builds on a $350 million, five-calendar year world-wide initiative to prepare persons for the long term of do the job.  

The BAM application has obtained national recognition from former President Obama as an evidenced approach to trauma reduction and violence prevention for younger guys of color who are at risk of being involved in violent criminal offense or dropping out of high school. Recent investigate reveals that even though close to 94 per cent of BAM participants have encountered trauma and close to 70 per cent report signs and symptoms of depression, nearly 60 per cent report a sizeable decrease in feelings of depression right after one calendar year of participation

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About Howard University  

Established in 1867, Howard University is a personal, investigate college that is comprised of fourteen faculties and schools. Students pursue more than 140 courses of examine top to undergraduate, graduate and expert degrees. The University operates with a motivation to Excellence in Real truth and Services and has generated one Schwarzman Scholar, three Marshall Students, four Rhodes Students, twelve Truman Students, twenty five Pickering Fellows and more than one hundred sixty five Fulbright recipients. Howard also provides more on-campus African American Ph.D. recipients than any other college in the United States. For more info on Howard University, visit www.howard.edu. 

About JPMorgan Chase  

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a top world-wide financial products and services agency with assets of $three.seven trillion and functions all over the world. The firm is a chief in investment decision banking, financial products and services for customers and little firms, industrial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset administration. A part of the Dow Jones Industrial Common, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of clients in the United States and many of the world’s most notable company, institutional and authorities customers underneath its J.P. Morgan and Chase brand names. Information and facts about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is accessible at www.jpmorganchase.com. 

About Youth Guidance  

Youth Direction creates and implements school-primarily based courses that help youth to conquer road blocks, target on their schooling and, ultimately, to succeed in school and in daily life. Youth Direction is a top company of outcomes-pushed courses and potential-setting up initiatives, immediately serving more than 13,000 youth throughout Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles, and London. Our strategically designed shipping spots are counseling & prevention, local community & afterschool programming, and youth workforce progress. 

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