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News & Views - Apr,
1999 Issue #57
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Coalition for Residential Education
Press Release by: Heidi Goldsmith, Ex. Dir.
International Center for Residential Education
April 14, 1999
Washington, DC
icrehg@aol.com
202-966-4304
The Coalition for Residential Education (CORE) is an association and advocacy
group of existing and newly developing residential schools for at-risk children and youth, and supporters of this option for young
people. A CORE Children’s Home/Residential School Alumni Group is currently being developed.
Created and guided by the International Center for Residential Education
in the summer of 1998, the CORE’s mission is:
“To mobilize those interested in the promotion of residential education for
children whose homes or communities cannot sufficiently meet their needs, in order to strengthen both individual programs and the
field of residential education by:
- Increasing public awareness of residential education for economically and socially
disadvantaged children and youth;
- Enhancing and sharing professional practices and standards;
- Educating and gaining support of policymakers; and Better engaging students,
staff, students’ families, and the community in these settings.”
CORE Founding members are varied in funding sources, age of students, size,
and admission criteria. They find they have more in common than differences, however, because they are residential in nature and focus
on longer term positive youth development, rather than quick fixes. Among the current Founding members are the Boston University Residential
Charter School, Boys Home (Covington, VA), Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, Girard College, Milton Hershey School, Minnesota
Residential Academies, Penobscott Job Corps Center, Scotland School for Veterans’ Children, and the Virginia Home for Boys. CORE is
supported by annual dues from the members, and through individual supporters.
CORE Founding members meet quarterly. A Founding Member school hosts each
meeting. A variety of priority projects are under way, through CORE’s five Committees: Public Awareness, Student Engagement and Opportunities,
Professional Practices, Government Relations, and Conferences. A national conference is being planned for April 2000, to be hosted
by Girard College in Philadelphia.
Copyright © 1999, Woodbury Reports, Inc. (This article may be reproduced
without prior approval if the copyright notice and proper publication and author attribution accompanies the copy.)
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