POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC
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Mission Statement
Oklahoma's only elementary school and social services agency specifically serving homeless students.
About This Cause
Positive Tomorrows (PT) is OK’s only elementary school specifically serving homeless children and their families. These students have many things that get in the way of education. Imagine not knowing where your next meal will come from, where you will sleep tonight or if your home today will be the same place you call “home” by the end of the week. Unfortunately, learning takes a back seat to surviving. We help homeless children and their families in three ways: Remove barriers that hinder a child's access to education such as: transportation, hunger, and basic needs; Support homeless families to help them become empowered and self-sufficient; and Provide robust, intensive and differentiated education. Education is the key to ending the cycle of homelessness and poverty. By helping to support the family, we make it possible for children to learn. PT is unique in our focus on the whole family. We have social workers who focus on the parents. We help with basic essentials first. Then we help with resources to meet longer-term needs with job and life-skills training, job placement, benefits enrollment, parenting classes and housing. Sometimes housing means helping a family who has been living in their car get into a shelter, sometimes it is helping them enroll in a transitional or supportive housing program and eventually, their own home. The end goal is to help make families more stable, so the chaos and stress of being homeless stops interfering with the child’s ability to learn. We have up to 58 Kindergarten through 5th Grade students. Our teachers are certified, we teach according to OKC Public School standards and we are accredited by the North Central Association and are members of OK A+ Schools. PT teaches with poverty in mind and our classes are small. Each child is assessed emotionally and academically, then a differentiated education plan is created for each student. PT looks at the entire child within the context of homelessness and extreme poverty to help ensure success.