What is a Community School?
Using public schools as a hub, community schools bring together many partners to offer a range of supports and opportunities to children, youth, families and communities -- before, during and after school, seven days a week. These partners work to achieve these results:

• All students learn and achieve to high standards.
• Students are well prepared for their roles in the workplace and community, as parents and as citizens.
• Families and neighborhoods are supportive, engaged and equipped with the skills they need in order to be successful.
• Parents and community members are involved with the school and their own life-long learning.

F.E.C.L.C. now operates a full-service community school, offering programs and services aimed at personal development for the entire family focused on the following four areas:

These areas are　described in detail in the following section. Our methodology for delivery of services as well as the effectiveness of the services we offer will be reviewed and modified regularly in an effort to ensure that we remain　focused　on the　mission, vision and purpose of our organization.

a.) Skills Training for DIRECT Work-Force Readiness

1. Parenting education and parent leadership
2. Adult education
3. Job training and career counseling services
4. Re-Entry Programs for the formerly incarcerated in the "F.E.C.L.C. Re-entry Program"
5. Life-Skills, Information Technology Training, and much more for the students and family members of the homeless and formerly homeless population in the "F.E.C.L.C. Restore Program"
6. Community services and service learning opportunities
7. Information Technology Training and voluntary work-experience opportunities
8. Paid internship opportunities for program participants

b.) College Preparation and Remedial Education

1. Remedial education and academic enrichment
2. Literacy/reading programs plus expanded‐learning opportunities for youth and families
3. Mentoring and other youth development programs
4. Community services and service learning opportunities
5. Programs for truant, suspended, or expelled students

C.) Family Enrichment

1. Empower participants to become effective life-long learners
2. Increase levels of enlightenment, self-esteem and motivation
3. Increasing Student Performance
4. Increasing Employee Performance
5. Increasing Parenting  Effectiveness
6. Leadership Training

D.) Entrepreneurship Education, Employment-Internship, and Business Incubation

1. Entrepreneurship Education
2. Small Business Incubation

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The new F.E.C.L.C. Community Portal is now online.

The F.E.C.L.C. Community Portal is a new website for the F.E.C.L.C. Full Service Community School. Here you will find a constant source of information about the activities powering the F.E.C.L.C. Learn about F.E.C.L.C. Events worldwide, and see if there is a F.E.C.L.C. Group near you. Our new, monthly F.E.C.L.C. Community Magazine now offers an interesting overview of project activities, community accomplishments, and learning material.
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What's In It For Me? How Does F.E.C.L.C. Benefit Me?

How Does F.E.C.L.C. Benefit Me?
Not surprisingly, I get this very same question asked of me almost every week as I try to make my rounds through various communities, soliciting folks for their involvement in our family enrichment and community development programs.

The very folks we are trying to reach out to in our efforts to enrich will be staunchly inquiring (and they have a right to do so) ... "Well if I join your program, what's in it for me? What do I get for my time and participation? How does this benefit me, and my family? I would then hand them a F.E.C.L.C. Program Benefits Brochure and go into details as I outline the various benefits and perks made available to participants of the F.E.C.L.C. Program.

Well after countless repetition of this cycle, I decided that I could do much more with this same information. I decided to make this information available to all interested parties via this website. So for all the folks who might want to ask that same question...here is how the F.E.C.L.C. program benefits not only you and your family, but your entire community.

As a participant in the F.E.C.L.C. Program, you'll receive:
• In-depth Information Technology Training in the areas of Web Development, Computer Repairs and Maintenance, Video Shooting, Editing and Post-Production, Web-Based and Print Graphics, Web Marketing and Search Engine Optimization, plus lots more marketable I.T. skills.
• Free Entrepreneurship Education trainig.
• Free Marketing Tools, including a corporate website as a winner of our business plan development competition.
• Free Business Plan development training.
• Free Java Video Game development training.
• Where funding permits - A Free, Brand New, Computer System.

We know that we could teach you to fish, and even take you out to the best lake, pond, or river. We believe you might even get excite about the prospects of catching a fish or few, but we also know that without fishing line, hooks, bait, net, or even a basic caveman's spear (smiles...joking..) or the likes, you'd sooner or later walk away either frustrated or discouraged, at not being able to catch any fish. So we believe that a part of the empowerment and or recovery mechanisms which we offer has to be the tools and resource you walk away with when you complete the F.E.C.L.C. program.

The F.E.C.L.C Community

Got a question? With the growing numbers of members and participants, the F.E.C.L.C. Discussion Forums at fetchfl.com/forum are great resources for both new and experienced users. Ask your toughest questions—the community is waiting to see what you'll do with your F.E.T.C.H. membership.

Do you want to show off your new F.E.C.L.C. Affiliate Web site? Visit the Site Showcase section of our forum.

Do you want to contribute?
If you think participating in the F.E.C.L.C. program was fun, wait until you start working on building F.E.C.L.C. We're passionate about helping F.E.C.L.C. participants and well-wishers become F.E.C.L.C. contributors. There are many ways you can help F.E.C.L.C. build a better and more effective organization:

• Submit news about your F.E.C.L.C. experience.  We will syndicate F.E.C.L.C. related news on our F.E.C.L.C. Connect™ site as well as our "In Their Own Words" Video Gallery. If you have F.E.C.L.C. related news or comments that you would like to share with the community, find out how to get connected here.
• Donate your time, resources or money to help us keep F.E.C.L.C. as a central part of our community. Please read "Contribute to F.E.C.L.C.", for details on how to contribute to F.E.C.L.C.
• Join the F.E.C.L.C. builders forums and share your ideas for how to improve F.E.C.L.C. We're always open to your suggestions.
• Join any of the F.E.C.L.C. Working Groups and bring your personal expertise to the F.E.C.L.C. community.

These are just a few ways you can contribute. See "Contribute to F.E.C.L.C." for many more ways.