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Parent Action Groupsfor EducationPep Rally for EducationThe Young DevelopersProjectUNDERWEARNESS

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Provide West Dallas students withbasic clothing needs. See belowfor more information.

VolunteerLa PosadaDecember 14Anita Martenez RecreationalCenterContact: Tara Powell

Tutors needed forreading and math.Contact: Trinity River MissionDeisy Martinez at 214-744-6774

Sponsor Spotlight

DFCC is grateful to manysponsors for their dedication inWest Dallas. This season wewould like to give a special thankyou to The Jordan FamilyFoundation, The Boone FamilyFoundation and Texas Capital

Parent Action Groupsfor EducationEducate, Empower, Engage!

The goal of PAGE is two fold: 1) to equip WestDallas parents with the tools to become their childrens best advocates in education, and 2) todevelop a fully parent-led PAGE movement acrossWest Dallas. PAGE groups are neighborhood-specific, addressing the particular schools, parents,teachers, and needs in each sub-community of WestDallas.

We began the school year with one functioningPAGE group already underway in Lakewest, andsince the start of school have grown into five PAGEgroups in four neighborhoods: Lakewest,Westmoreland Heights, Across Hampton, and LosAltos/La Bajada. Being the first group started (withseveral pre-existing relationships through MercyStreet), the Lakewest group is our most consistentlyattended so far. Each meeting we are averagingaround twenty parents and have over seventyparents who have at some point attended or signedup for the group. We have easily over 100 parents

signed up or interested across West Dallas our challenge remains to build consistency and capacity.

The other groups are gradually growing, withsome meetings better attended than others. TheFamily Fun Night PAGE kick-off party at AmeliaEarhart brought out around 125 people. We have

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excellent support from the principals and communityliaisons at Amelia Earhart, Carver Creative ArtsCenter, and C.F. Carr and are working onrelationships with other schools.

Our greatest measure of success will be our level of informed, engaged parent leadership. TheLakewest and Los Altos PAGE groups are nowco-led by parent leaders and our goal is to achievecomplete parent leadership across the board. Todevelop an effective parent leadership team we mustensure that our parents are both equipped andcommitted to their children's education.

Pep Rally for EducationThe School Zone - West Dallas

On Saturday, September 18, 2010, DFCCsponsored The School Zone West Dallas Pep

Rally for Education . This festive gathering of theWest Dallas community was held in support of educational excellence for West Dallas children.

The School Zone - West Dallas was informedby the Harlem Childrens Zone and incubated atDFCC. The School Zone is a collaborative effort of 17 not-for-profit organizations and 13 K-12 public,private, and charter schools in West Dallas to makequality education a focus in West Dallas.

The Pep Rally event allowed these organizationsto share information about resources available to

parents and children during the school year whilealso highlighting the importance of education andfostering school and community pride.

Special guest appearances included Mavericks'point guard Rodrigue Beaubois, Champ (theMavericks mascot), Cowboys Rhythm and BluesDancers, and national radio celebrities Psycho

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Shannon and Big Al Mack from the Kidd Kraddick inthe Morning show on 106.1, KISSFM. IvonneDurant, DISD Academic Chief Officer andCouncilman Dave Neumann also attended andanswered questions and greeted guests.

Many thanks to DISD, Texas Capital Bank, SMU,Watermark Church and The Shelton School for donating time and resources. Their help allowedDFCC to offer food, fun activities, and "In the Zone"T-shirts for all of the students in West Dallas, as wellas transportation and tickets for families attendingthe post Pep Rally football game on the SMUcampus.

The Young Developers

ProjectTeens Plan Improvements

DFCC's 2010 Summer Young DevelopersInternship included eight students from PinkstonHigh School, seven weeks of an intensive, hands-onexperience to explore redevelopment plans for the Dallas Housing Authorityowned Lakewest shopping center that backs up totheir school. The Housing Authority served as their client and when they presented their ideas to TimLott, he commented that they listened as well as or

better than an consultants he had ever hired.

The internship allowed the teens to work withseveral groups including the Dallas HousingAuthority who is the owner and future redeveloper of the shopping center, Dallas City Design, BernbaumMagadini Architects, The Retail Connection, andUTA graduate students.

Throughout the program the interns experiencedpractical applications that connected their educationand their ideas with real possibilities for futureimprovements in the world around them. The Young

Developers shopping center redevelopment projectinvolved researching the most comprehensive andholistic community development approach for their target area, compiling asset maps from that area,and creating, through a charrette process, aland-use and social resources plan based oncommunity assets and innovative ideas.

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According to the interns, the internship wasdescribed as follows:

This high school internship has been a wonderfulexperience for me, being able to work with Tim Lott,

Vice President of Capital Projects at the DallasHousing Authority, and partner with a group of UTAgraduate students to help us plan out the design of the shopping center. - Soloman (YDP Intern)

My experience with the Young Developers so far has been a major learning and motivatingexperience. The Young Developers' has motivatedme to become a more caring person in thecommunity which has kind of inspired me to becomemore caring in the world.- Daniel (YDP Intern)

Building upon the success of this project, DFCCsubmitted a proposal to The Real Estate Council for funding to expand the program in the summer of 2011. We hope to hear good news from that requestin a few weeks.

Learn more about the Young Developers Projectat:youngdevelopersproject.wordpress.com

UNDERWEAR NESSHelp One Pair at a Time

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DFCC is sponsoring an UNDERWEARNESSdrive to help provide West Dallas students with basicclothing needs.

All too often we take the simple things in life for granted. For example, have you ever gone to your sock drawer and not had a clean pair of socks or underwear to wear that day? Now imagine not evenhaving dirty socks or underwear to wear.

You can help solve this problem.

Donate:

One new package of underwear or socks for children Kindergarten - 5th gradeAll donations must be new and in originalpackaging

Monetary donations accepted: Cash, Check(payable to DFCC), or Online at www.dfcc.usDeliver to DFCC, 4514 Travis Street, Suite350 or for more information contact TaraPowell at Tara@dfcc.us

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