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Mile High United Way

Youth Success

Colorado’s graduation rate is 78%.

Fifty percent of Denver students don’t graduate.  Mile High United Way’s Youth Success Initiative provides thousands of students access  to mentoring, quality aft erschool programs, tutoring and dropout prevention, gang and  violence intervention programs. Students who participate in mentoring programs are 90%  more likely to advance to the next grade and 75% more likely to graduate from high school.


Last year Mile High United Way's Youth Success Initiative helped 41,000 youth succeed.

SCHOOL READINESS

YOUTH SUCCESS

ADULT SELF SUFFICIENCY

 

HAPPY TRAILS TO PROMISING LIVES

Juan and Sazian both struggled as teenagers. Juan became a teen father. Sazian dropped out of school.