Project Learn is a nonprofit, community-based organization providing Summit County’s non-reading adult population with free, confidential, small group classes and tutoring. Project Learn helps adults reach their goals of self-sufficiency, independence and job retention.

Project Learn is Summit County’s Official GED Testing Center. In January, Project Learn will begin administering the official GED test three times a month. The 2010 testing schedule will be announced mid-December.

Call 330-434-9461 for more information or check out the website www.projectlearnsummit.org

A program offering positive alternatives in life and education.

www.theleapprogram.net

For more information, please call  (330) 676-8674

Theodore Roosevelt High School Special Education MH students spend their mornings at Central School and their afternoons at RHS. At the Central School environment, a kitchen and laundry area are provided so that students can cook and learn needed life skills and work skills. Students participate in exercise in the gymnasium and have access to state of the art touch computers that were graciously donated to the program. Students take regular Life Skills field trips to places such as the Kent State University gym Annex and Acme. All students perform vounteer work at the KSU Newman Center.  Additionally, some students volunteer at the Coleman Foundation and Robinson Memorial Hospital. For additional information, please contact the classroom teacher, Ms. Tabitha Mesisca at ke_tmesisca@kentschools.net

Option 4-Job Training Coordination (JTC) Program, based at Central School in the Kent School District, helps Compact students with disabilities gain skills to find and keep competitive employment while meeting their individualized Career Passports criteria. Collaboration with local business partners and adult service support agencies help Option 4-JTC students obtain work experience or employment and the services needed to maintain success. Partners include the Kent State Transition Collaborative (KSTC), the Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation (BVR), the Bureau of Services for the Visually Impaired (BSVI), Portage and Summit County Boards of Developmental Disabilities and area disability service providers. Students are accepted into this program through a referral and selection process.

 Option 4-Project SEARCH is a one-year program providing workforce development.

The Option 4 Contact at Central School is Mrs. Aurora Stewart and she can be reached at (330) 676-8689 or at ke_astewart@kentschools.net

The Roosevelt High School Bridges Academy serves approximately eighty 9th and 10th grade students.  Students attend English, Math, Choices (Life Skills) and either Science or U.S. History at Central School which serves as an RHS annex. Through small group and individualized instruction, students see a great deal of success in this family-like atmosphere. Students spend half of their day in the academy and the other half of their day is spent in classes at Roosevelt High School. For more information select the Bridges Academy link.