About Project H.E.L.P.

Project H.E.L.P. is an early academic intervention program that helps underachieving students reach their full potential.  The program is based on the premise that, given the right learning environments, all children can meet or exceed grade level expectations in the key curricular areas of reading and mathematics.

Project H.E.L.P. provides elementary school students with an extra 175 hours of instruction each year, delivered by their regular classroom teachers, in a small group setting, and right at their own school site.  The program requires active parental involvement including 6 parent-teacher conferences during the course of each school year.  Project H.E.L.P.'s model of extended instruction, small class size, parental involvement, and more individualized teacher instruction and attention combine to create an exceptional learning opportunity for children.

Project H.E.L.P. involves school and district administrators, teachers, and a variety of specialists to provide an academic safety net that ensures students have all the tools they need to succeed in school.  A cost-effective means of integrating effective interventions into the public school system, Project H.E.L.P. uses private investments to leverage systemic change.  Its board of directors’ vision is to make the program easily replicable, close the achievement gap, and re-define how schools go about fulfilling their mandate to ensure school success for all students.