"Treehouse Street Smarts"
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The Koret Foundation's Routes to Learning Initiative focuses on the potential of community-based organizations to provide students with the extra support needed to improve learning skills and abilities. The alternative learning environments and programs that these organizations provide engage youth in ways that are distinct from school, yet contribute to school success. This Initiative provides financial and technical support, with the bottom-line aim of strengthening young people's connections to quality youth organizations and increasing youth participation in educational programs. "TreeHouse Street Smarts is a place where a young person has the creative curiosity and intellectual audacity to chart his/her own destiny," Kataoka says. "TreeHouse Street symbolizes an alternative learning environment that invites young people to expand their academic, cultural, social and civic horizons, a place where the lessons of the classroom are applied and where young people bond."
