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**Project Title: Strengthening Outreach and Academic Resources for Student Success (ATC-SOAR)**

**Institutional Profile:** Established in 1945, Atlanta Technical College (ATC) provides exceptional education opportunities to a diverse group of students from varied backgrounds, academic experiences, and workforce interests. ATC is a Predominantly Black Institution with an 85% African American Students enrollment.
**Project Overview:** ATC-SOAR & Wholistic Stress Control Institute - Saturday Institute for Manhood Brotherhood Actualization (SIMBA) Youth Violence Intervention Prevention Services (Y-VIPS) was formulated in direct response to identifying the significant problems related to student success for gang-involved youth and young adults. ATC-SOAR is student- centered- focused, which means student success is the cornerstone of the program model. Hence, ATC is committed to providing programs and services of the highest quality to enhance students' success outcomes for enrollment, retention, and graduation.Furthermore, Georgia State University Center for Evaluation and Research Services will oversee the project's evaluation component. The primary responsibilities of the external evaluators will be to evaluate the quality of the ATC-SOAR program through measurement of the goals, objectives, activities, and timeframe table during the grant period. The evaluator will meet the requirements of the formative and summative reporting outcomes through the evaluation process, which includes data collection activities using both objective quantitative data and contextual qualitative data collection. 

**Project Outcomes:** Over the three-year project period, ATC will achieve the following outcomes:

ATC-SOAR 	      Institutional Goals 

Baseline AY 2021 

Year-1 2022 

Year-2 2023 

Total Grant Period 

Enroll 50 Known Gang-Involved or At-risk of being 	      Gang Involved Students at ATC over    the grant period. 

0 

25 

25 

100% 	      (50) 

Maintain a Retention Rate of 75-85%    over the grant period for    the Enrolled Known Gang- Involved or At-risk of being gang Involved 

0 

75% 	      (18) 

80% 	      (20) 

80% 	      (38) 

Maintain a Graduate Rate of 80% over    the grant period for the Known Gang-Involved or At-risk of being Gang Involved Students    Retained with a 	      Technical Certificate or Diploma. 

0 

80% 	      (15) 

80% 	      (16) 

80% 	      (31) 

Maintain an Employment Rate    of 85% for    Known Gang-Involved or At-risk    of being Gang    Involved Students Graduating from ATC annually over the grant period. 

0 

85% 	      (13) 

85% 	      (14) 

85% 	      (27) 
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