Program:
STAY SAFE
- Budget:
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$50,000
- Category:
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Public Safety, Disaster Services
- Population Served:
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Youth/Adolescents only (14 - 19 years)
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Young Adults (20-25 years) -- currently not in use
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Adults
Program Description:
<div>Education outreach. Program selection and advice to keep children and students safe on programs abroad</div>
Program Long-Term Success:
<div>In a perfect world, youth and students and those that care for and love them would have access to the safety record of programs encouraging them to go abroad on youth travel, cultural exchange, volunteer, adventure, and study abroad programs. </div><div> </div><div>Minimum standards and qualifications would be set to insure that programs encouraging America's children to go abroad are delivering safe rewarding experiences because they have teh education and skills to deliver. </div><div> </div><div> </div>
Program Short-Term Success:
<div>Stay Safe offers advice and real life examples to engage youth, students, parents and caregivers in active decisions affecting their safety on programs abroad. </div>
Program Success Monitored by:
<div>Social media engagment, traffic statistics, and feedback.</div>
Program Success Examples:
<div>Students and parents write to ClearCause expressing how StaySafe advice helped them decide to participate or not - and helped prepare them for global experiences.</div>
Program:
BIG IDEA - Cross Industry Collaboration
- Budget:
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$75,000
- Category:
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Public Safety, Disaster Services
- Population Served:
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Female Youth/Adolescents (14 - 19 years)
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Children Only (5 - 14 years)
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Crime/Abuse Victims
Program Description:
<div>ClearCause is working to develop a summit of industry organizations and policy makers to set the bar on minimum qualifications, standards and public reporting. No Federal standards exist today to protect America's children participating in global youth travel, cultural exchange, volunteer, adventure, and study abroad programs. </div>
Program Long-Term Success:
<div>In an ideal world, American Youth & Students and their parents would have accurate information to judge the reputation, reward and cost value of an abroad program entrusted with their lives, future and health.</div>
Program Short-Term Success:
<div>ClearCause Stay Safe initiative is a culmination of industry leaders who have provided their expertise to help students make active informed decisions on program selection and participation.</div>
Program Success Monitored by:
<div>Industry participation and collaboration in social media and early adopters.</div>
Program Success Examples:
<div>The hardest information ClearCause hears is 'Why didn't we know about this before we went abroad." ClearCause's outreach is attracting students who are actively engaging in social media to share our Stay Safe Initiatives. </div><div><br />Industry adopters are important to enrich and develop minimum standards and qualifications.</div>
Program:
Family Crisis Fund
- Budget:
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$100,000
- Category:
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Public Safety, Disaster Services
- Population Served:
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Adults
Program Description:
An emergency fund to assist emergency contacts when they need to get to a child or student who has been harmed overseas and assistance with legal and investigation referrals if needed.
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Program:
Advocacy
- Budget:
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$30,000
- Category:
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Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy
- Population Served:
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Youth/Adolescents only (14 - 19 years)
Program Description:
Minimum standards and transparent public reporting on programs taking our children and students on programs abroad.
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