Parent Citywide African American Educational Focus Group
Executive Director-Janet M. Hurd
Contact Number 702-426-7938
Parent Citywide Mission Statement
Parent Citywide African American Educational Focus Group is a non-profit youth organization that focuses on youth and family issues.
Our mission is to enhance the educational, cultural and social wholeness of African American children and all children and parents in the city of Las Vegas and nationally. Parent Citywide Focus is to create supplemental academic and cultural programs that will enhance and encourage youth to excel to the highest level of excellence. Parent Citywide mission is to gather pertinent data, information and statistics from educational institutions to evaluate and disseminate this information to empower parents, guardians and other concerned parties in the community. Lastly, having involvement in setting policies that directly effect student and families.
Building Partnerships
Parent Citywide focus is to build partnerships will local school districts, community based organizations, and other various resource agencies that are youth related. These relationships consist of high schools credit retrieval programs for students that are lacking and approaching graduation requirements.
Parent Citywide is constantly developing community partnerships/relationships with various local private businesses and organizations to enrich and enhance students in class experiences with real-time and current information. Collaborative efforts from Help of Southern Nevada, Clark County School Distirct and local Metro Police Departments along with private businesses assist in mentoring students and give volunteering opportunities in the community.
Partnerships and relationship building connect students, parents, schools, corporations and businesses and create understanding that all are stakeholders of students success.