Providing Supports for Education in Lawrence Lawrence Family Development believes that every students has the ability to learn when placed in an environment supportive of their needs. Targeted Assistance/ School Turnaround LFPA and Lawrence Public Schools’ RISE Academy Building on LFD’s history of providing school turnaround services for Lawrence Public Schools at the Lawrence Family Public Academy, in FY18 LFD’s SISU program began providing Targeted Assistance services for Lawrence High School’s RISE Academy. The SISU strategy is built on a partnership between academic, workforce development and social‐emotional support staff. RISE students attend school at the SISU Center and are active participants in SISU programming and the SISU community. During FY’18, seventy‐nine LPS students participated in the RISE/SISU partnership. PFK Scholarship Funds Lawrence Family Development’s PFK Scholarship Funds assist some of Lawrence’s most promising eighth graders to attend some of New England’s most elite private high schools. During FY’18, the PFK Scholarship Fund provided eighteen four‐year high school scholarships totaling $86,350 to graduating 8th graders. These scholarships will be used to assist graduates attending Phillips Academy Andover, Berkshire School and Concord Academy, and for those graduates choosing to stay closer to home: Bradford Christian Academy, Central Catholic High School, Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School, the Academy at Penguin Hall, Lowell Catholic High School, Presentation of Mary Academy and Pingree School. In 2008, the Board of Lawrence Family Development , Inc. created the Patricia F. Karl Scholarship Fund in honor of founder and former Executive Director, Patricia Foley Karl. The PFK Scholarship Fund provide high school scholarships to graduating 8th graders who will be attending some of New England’s most prestigious secondary schools. In addition to creating the direct scholarship fund, the Board partnered with the Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF) to create the PFK Scholarship Endowment Fund with a goal of raising $1M over 10 years. Managed by ECCF, the endowment fund will help support the dreams and aspirations of Lawrence young people for generations to come. At this year’s “Meet our Scholars...Who Reach for the Stars” Scholarship Fundraiser and surrounded by family, friends, founding Board Trustees and generous benefactors, Patricia Karl announced that the endowment fund had hit the $1M goal. Congratulations to all who helped us reach this extraordinary milestone! LFD, INC FY’2017‐2018 ANNUAL REPORT PAGE 9
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