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values and informal learning, conceptions of museums, and perceptions of science. She brings a bicultural/bilingual perspective to her work and specializes in culturally responsive and contextually relevant research and evaluation approaches. Ms. Garibay served on the National Research Council committee on informal science learning. She also served as a panelist and author on the NSF framework for evaluating the impact of informal science learning projects. City Partners: The Urban Bird Gardens partners included 1) Corazón Community Services in Chicago offers a comprehensive set of programs in the ‘settlement house’ style using a bilingual/bicultural approach. Programming focuses on a positive youth development approach offering educational support, practical skills, creative outlets, diverse opportunities, and mentors. Leaders include Adam Alonzo, Executive Director and Edith Soto, Manager of Prevention Programs 2) The Children's Museum of Houston/ Community Science Workshop/Community Family Centers in Houston. Funded by the National Science Foundation, The Children’s Museum of Houston’s Science Workshop at Edison Middle School promotes and supports inquiry‐based science for children, parents and teachers in Houston East End. Community Family Centers provides services for families to better address the root causes of poverty. CFC offers a network of services to care for the men, women and children placed at risk at Houston’s East End. By providing counseling, food, ESL and GED classes, HIV prevention education, early childhood education, dropout prevention programs and more, CFC supports the disadvantaged and identifies their needs. Leaders include Cheryl McCallum, Director of Education, Andrea Hernandez Site Coordinator an d Robert Galan Program Coordinator. 3) Chicanos Por la Causa, Inc., in Phoenix is a statewide development corporation committed to building stronger, healthier communities as a lead advocate, coalition builder and direct service provider. CPLC promotes positive change and self‐ sufficiency to enhance the quality of life of those they serve in Arizona’s socially and economically deprived communities. Leaders include Maria Parra, Director of Prevention Services and Renato Ramos, Community /Prevention Specialist. 4) ASPIRA of Florida, Inc. in Miami. ASPIRA is a community‐based organization dedicated to youth leadership development. ASPIRA of Florida provides community based guidance, counseling and leadership development opportunities to placed‐at‐ risk young people. Students are identified and recruited directly from school computer profiles of potential dropouts, as well as from school counselors, teachers, parents, juvenile court and fellow peers. ASPIRA has also developed program initiatives in the areas of youth gang avoidance, drug prevention, alternative middle school education, community service, mentoring opportunities and charter schools. Cornell Lab of Ornithology Urban Bi rd Gardens Final Report Page 2
Advisors: Leaders include Raúl Martinez, President and CEO ASPIRA of Florida, Inc, and Fernando Lopez, Principal of ASPIRA Eugenio Maria de Hostos Youth Leadership Charter School 5) The Youth Policy Institute (YPI) in Los Angeles provides education, training and technology services for low income families. Youth Policy Institute serves families in Los Angeles at 85 sites throughout the city. YPI offers families education and training resources in the areas of afterschool, job training, early childhood education, physical education, adult literacy and ESL, computer literacy, charter schools, and college preparation. Each year, YPI helps more than 20,000 youth and adults through these programs. Leaders include Dixon Slingerland, Executive Director Youth Policy Institute, Ana Cubas Deputy Director (no longer at her post as of March 2009), and Mercedes Perez, Project Director, Belmont FullService Community Schools. 6) New York Restoration Project (NYRP) in New York. NYRP is now one of the leading partners of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation in developing underused and new parkland. Through park and garden restoration, environmental education, and public programs, NYRP has become an important catalyst for sustainable community development. The goal at NYRP is to ensure that parks and other open spaces in less privileged neighborhoods become the "Central Park" of those communities, where recreational, educational, and environmental programs become part of the fabric of the neighborhood. Leader is Akiima Price, Chief of Education & Programs Dr. Francisco Villarruel, Michigan State University Dr. Francisco Villarruel, Professor of Family and Child Ecology, Michigan State University. Dr. Villarruel is Director of the Julián Samora Research Institute at MSU and specializes in family relations and risk factors for Latino youth. Sofia Villenas, Associate Professor of Education, Cornell University Dr. Villenas is affiliated with the Latino/a Studies Program at Cornell, was a bilingual school teacher, and teaches and publishes on educational anthropology, Latino education, multiculturalism, language issues, and the social/political context of education Collaborators DiOnetta Jones, Director of Diversity Programs, College of Engineering, Cornell University Cornell Lab of Ornithology Urban Bird Gardens Final Report Page 3
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