Open Doors Academy works to protect, inspire, nurture and challenge youth to reach their full potential. Open Doors Academy seeks to provide best-in-class services to its scholars, alumni and their families. Focusing on growing its footprint throughout Greater Cleveland, while advancing its reputation as a national leader in out-of-school education, ODA serves as a foundation of education, investing in the life-long learning of its staff, scholars, and families.
ODA is a youth development model committed to breaking the cycle of multi-generational poverty. We work to protect, inspire, nurture, and challenge adolescents to reach their full potential. ODA provides out-of-school time academic and enrichment programming to disadvantaged youth in Greater Cleveland. ODA originated in 1992 as a youth drop-in program at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, OH, serving Roxboro Middle School students.
After honing its program approach and developing a research-based curriculum, ODA officially incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2002.
ODA is a youth development model committed to breaking the cycle of multi-generational poverty. We work to protect, inspire, nurture, and challenge adolescents to reach their full potential. ODA provides out-of-school time academic and enrichment programming to disadvantaged youth in Greater Cleveland. ODA originated in 1992 as a youth drop-in program at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, OH, serving Roxboro Middle School students.
After honing its program approach and developing a research-based curriculum, ODA officially incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2002.
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Open Doors Academy believes that by building supportive relationships, strong social networks, and skills training with access to knowledge, experience and opportunities, youth will develop a sense of autonomy, purpose, and personal empowerment which in turn leads them to contribute to the common good.
ODA is grounded in the belief that it takes a community to raise a child.
As such, parents are required to contribute a minimum of 16 service hours to their child's programming.
This family engagement contributes to the wellbeing of our students by creating opportunities to spend time in a healthy and safe atmosphere, and by enhancing parent's knowledge base and toolset for supporting their child.
ODA is grounded in the belief that it takes a community to raise a child.
As such, parents are required to contribute a minimum of 16 service hours to their child's programming.
This family engagement contributes to the wellbeing of our students by creating opportunities to spend time in a healthy and safe atmosphere, and by enhancing parent's knowledge base and toolset for supporting their child.
At Open Doors Academy, we believe that education is the key to helping kids break the cycle of poverty.
Poverty and all the things that fuel it work against our children's success, both in and out of the classroom.
We recognize that schools and teachers are working hard, but the traditional school day - 8am to 3pm, late August through May - is not sufficient to address these issues for so many of these kids.
They just need more.
So, ODA has developed a unique model of out-of-school time programming.
Poverty and all the things that fuel it work against our children's success, both in and out of the classroom.
We recognize that schools and teachers are working hard, but the traditional school day - 8am to 3pm, late August through May - is not sufficient to address these issues for so many of these kids.
They just need more.
So, ODA has developed a unique model of out-of-school time programming.
Open Doors Academy (ODA) is a comprehensive learning program that works closely with schools to provide extensive year-round, out-of-school learning; with a structured daily curriculum that is developed to meet Ohio Department of Education's Core Academic Standards.
Open Doors Academy is a Greater Cleveland-based, non-profit organization committed to ending the cycle of poverty through educational support systems for middle and high school students.
We create ambassadors of change who make a positive influence in the Cleveland community and beyond.
Open Doors Academy is a Greater Cleveland-based, non-profit organization committed to ending the cycle of poverty through educational support systems for middle and high school students.
We create ambassadors of change who make a positive influence in the Cleveland community and beyond.
Rich Wesorick is Managing Partner at Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP, a 36-lawyer intellectual property boutique law firm in Cleveland, Ohio.
Rich grew up in Cincinnati and attended St. Xavier High School.
He later graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1988.
Before attending law school at the University of Dayton School of Law, he worked as an engineer for four years with G.E. Aircraft Engines, during which time he was the inventor of U.S. Patent No. 5,178,003.
Rich grew up in Cincinnati and attended St. Xavier High School.
He later graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1988.
Before attending law school at the University of Dayton School of Law, he worked as an engineer for four years with G.E. Aircraft Engines, during which time he was the inventor of U.S. Patent No. 5,178,003.
When kids feel safe and loved it's amazing what they can do.
We've been providing students with a safe, secure place for two decades.
Thanks to the support of valuable donors like you.
It's with your help that we've been able to develop curriculum to engage them in academics and prepare them for life.
The results are extremely gratifying.
100 percent of our alumni graduate from high school.
And 100 percent graduate from post secondary education.
Even after they graduate high school, our alumni remain committed to Open Doors Academy-often participating and giving back to the program they love.
We've been providing students with a safe, secure place for two decades.
Thanks to the support of valuable donors like you.
It's with your help that we've been able to develop curriculum to engage them in academics and prepare them for life.
The results are extremely gratifying.
100 percent of our alumni graduate from high school.
And 100 percent graduate from post secondary education.
Even after they graduate high school, our alumni remain committed to Open Doors Academy-often participating and giving back to the program they love.
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