Alpha Phi Alpha’s National Program
“Go-to-High-School, Go-to-College”
The “Go-to-High-School, Go-to-College” program, established in 1922, concentrates on the importance of completing secondary and collegiate education as a road to advancement. Statistics prove the value of this extra impetus in making the difference in the success of young African-American men, given that school completion is the single best predictor of future economic success. Through the Go-to-High-School, Go-to-College educational initiative, young men receive information and learn strategies that facilitate success. Alpha men provide youth participants with excellent role models to emulate.
Gamma Pi Lambda
Has adopted the “Go-to-High-School, Go-to-College” initiative through the mentoring of 7th and 8th graders at Galveston’s Central Middle School. The mentoring effort consists of twice monthly meetings with the school’s Gentlemen’s Club, where various topics of interests are presented and discussed.
Spring Semester of 2017 Topics included (links to available handouts are highlighted):
Paying Attention & Following Instructions
Banking Session #1
Banking Session #2
Insurance (Health, Life, Home & Auto, etc.)
Ethics
Career Planning (Training, Education Requirements, etc.)
How to Respond to Police (when stopped or questioned)
Service Careers (Public, Military, Volunteer)
Bullying (Prevention, Addressing, etc.)
Resumes (Job Seeking, Professional, etc.)
Social and Interpersonal Skills
Interviewing Skills
Field Trip
Brother Hank Thierry introducing the topic “Mindless Consumerism” to the Gentlemen’s Club — April, 2018
Brothers of Gamma Pi Lambda present to the Gentlemen’s Club
Brother Carl Lomax demonstrates appropriate ways to handle police interactions