{"id":230,"date":"2014-11-01T23:24:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T23:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/?p=230"},"modified":"2015-02-16T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T18:48:00","slug":"reaching-latino-students-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/2014\/11\/01\/reaching-latino-students-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching Latino students and their families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-234\" style=\"margin: 4px 20px 7px 0px;border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/files\/2014\/11\/juntos.jpg\" alt=\"Juntos\" width=\"350\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1828\/files\/2014\/11\/juntos.jpg 350w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1828\/files\/2014\/11\/juntos-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Across Oregon, educational providers are working together to improve high school graduation rates, which are among the lowest in the country. Schools in rural Oregon communities struggle more than others, and Latino student gradation rates are significantly lower than rates of other student populations.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Madras High School (MHS) reported a 57 percent\u00a0graduation rate for their Latino students. In just four years the school district was able to increase the Latino student graduation rate to 67 percent.<\/p>\n<p>A critical component to the district\u2019s success is a program called Juntos: a college readiness program targeted at first-generation college students and their families. Originally developed by North Carolina State University, Juntos was launched in Madras in 2012 through a partnership between Jefferson County School District\u00a0509-J and Oregon State University.<\/p>\n<p>The Juntos program, taught in English and Spanish, connects participants with success coaches and college-age mentors who facilitate weekly afterschool clubs and activities.<\/p>\n<p>After two years of running the program, MHS has seen the\u00a0following improvements with the targeted population:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decreased dropout rates<\/li>\n<li>Increased post-secondary education access<\/li>\n<li>Increased understanding of high school graduation requirements<\/li>\n<li>Increased completion of college applications and FAFSA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Juntos is also offered in Culver, Tillamook and Sisters, with plans\u00a0to expand to more locations over the next year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cMy experience with Juntos has been incredible. It has changed our lives dramatically and it\u2019s something we never thought could happen to us.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u2014Ingrid Sanchez, Juntos participant, Madras (pictured above)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Check out a video about the Juntos program at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/opencampus\/juntos\/\">opencampus.oregonstate.edu\/juntos<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduation rate is up 10 percent in this rural Oregon school district<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211400,196231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2014-issues","category-subfeatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}