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In public schools, many teachers
are just teachers. Here, with every
kid, you treat them like they're
your son or daughter
and 80 people are employed. The
program also has the capacity to
help 1,000 more children via after
school programs.
Through tutoring, extracurricu
lar activities and counseling during
school, after school and over the
summer, 8-year-old children grow
into 25-year-old successes. This is
quite a feat, considering 50 percent
of the students come from single-
parent family homes that live below
the poverty line. But it was never a
question to Hopson as to why or
how inner-city children should be
helped along the way.
“I’m a product of the civil rights
movement, of the ’60s,” Hopson
said. “It’s hard not to be passion
ate. You’d have to have your head
in the sand. It was always about
community, about being the best
you could be. We wanted to pre
serve this community and have it
be a safe place for generations after
us.”
Last year, 98 percent of SEI youth
graduated from high school and 85
percent went on to college, many
with scholarships in hand.
Part of the success lies in work
ing with The Relationship Model,
proposing that the role of an SEI
coordinator be not just that of a
teacher, but a mentor and parent as
well. They stand by the child for as
many years as possible, allowing
for a consistent, positive role model
in the child’s life.
“Every kid has a gift and oppor
tunity to be successful. We have to
expose them to find out what that
gift is,” Hopson said. “ In an urban
setting, kids live in a little box. The
job of adults is to show kids their
full potential.”
While more than 85 percent of
the student population is African
American, Hopson said that the
program works with any environ
ment. He hopes that the prototype
created in north Portland will be
extended to other areas.
-T o n y Hopson Sr., SEI president and chief executive o fficer
“W e’re proud that w e’ve been
able to stay the course,” Hopson
said. “W e’ve stayed very focused.
W e’ve been able to survive all the
ups and downs and keeping kids in
school and getting them gradu
ated.”
In March 1997, the program
opened the Center for Self Enhance
ment, a 62,(XX) square feet bu i Iding
at 3920 N. Kerby Ave. This meant
having the ability to house an audi
torium, library, dance studio, gym,
computer lab, recording studio,
cafeteria and most importantly,
classrooms.
Last fall, Hopson opened up the
SEI A cadem y C harter M iddle
School with 50 new students. Hopes
are that the school will reach 150
youth over the next few years, with
sixth, seventh and eighth grade
classes being added as students
progress.
“In public schools, many teach
ers are just teachers. Here, with
every kid, you treat them like they’re
your son or daughter,” Hopson
said. "There are a large percentage
of kids who haven't been parented
the way they need to be. W e’re, in
many ways, replacing that.”
Each student is provided with
uniform s and a backpack full of
school supplies to start the year
w ell-equipped. Beyond the core
subjects, the students are held to
the sam e stan d ard s p revalent
throughout the rest o f the pro
gram.
On their first day of school last
September, according to an SEI
newsletter, Hopson told his incom
ing students, “One thing that will
be different about your educational
2 5 years and growing
experience here is when you don’t
SEI is looking toward its 25'h show up, you’ 11 have someone who
anniversary next year, with much will come and find you. When you
jubilation. It will also be hosting its step out of line, they will be there to
biggest fund-raiser of the year, the help you get back in line. When you
Art and Soul Gala, on Oct. 8. Last fall, there will be someone there to
year, the organization broke the pick you up. And most importantly,
record of raising more funds than when you feel that you can’t, there
any other in the state, gathering $2 will always be someone there to tell
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you that you can.”
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shelters and MAX stations
across the P ortland-m etro
area.
Crews will install no-smok
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stations in an effort to lessen
secondhand smoke, an issue
numerous people have com
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