Location: Brooklyn, New York

Website: http://www.yabctj.com

Member Since: November 2008

The Young Adult Borough Center (YABC) at Thomas Jefferson High School is part of the New York City Department of Education's commitment to provide overage and under-credited students with multiple pathways to graduation. The Center partners with nearby Medgar Evers College to ensure that its students meet with success at each step along those paths.

Students who are enrolled in Thomas Jefferson's YABC attend classes up to five evenings per week and receive tutoring, counseling, job and career development. They participate in workshops and get support that helps them prepare for college, meaningful employment, healthy personal relationships, and life after high school. Students have access to tutoring and student support services before school hours and have the opportunity to participate in weekend academic and extracurricular activities. YABC students graduate with a diploma from their home school after they have earned all of their credits and passed all of the required exams.

Medgar Evers College and the Young Adult Borough Center at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn have teamed up with iMentor to launch a new mentoring program for their students. Using iMentor Interactive, the program’s staff will be able to get the initiative off the ground quickly, drawing on iMi’s sophisticated matching algorithm and built-in writing prompts. And the online applications and applicant-screening tools will enable them to easily open the mentoring experience to college students at Medgar Evers.