will have Ford PAS programs in place by
the end of the year. The agency's services
are supported by and coordinated with schools, the police and the community. In 2004, Ford Motor Company Fund-
supported organizations received nearly $78 million.com

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The students, Antoinette Fullmore, Southeastern High School,
and Charles LeJeune, Northern High School, will showcase their accomplishments
in a unique educational program developed by Ford Motor Company Fund in
collaboration with Education Development Center (EDC) and offered by
Children's Aid Society, a youth advocacy agency.
"To be selected from among 2,200 Ford PAS students nationally to
participate in our annual conference is quite an honor," said Carrier.
All services are designed to build strength within the family unit with the
ultimate goal of creating a foundation for a better and healthier society.

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DETROIT, Two local high school students are
traveling to San Antonio on June 20 to participate in the 3rd Annual Ford
Partnership for Advanced Studies (Ford PAS) conference sponsored by Ford Motor
Company Fund.
"Reaching at-risk students was not the original intent of the program, but
in response to requests from community groups, we adapted the curriculum,"
said Carrier."
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The Ford Partnership for Advanced Studies (Ford PAS) program, created in
collaboration with Education Development Center (EDC), provides high school
students with high-quality interdisciplinary learning experiences that
challenge them academically and develop their problem-solving, critical
thinking and communication skills.
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"Ford PAS has given us an exciting new way to fulfill our mission
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"Henry Ford once noted that education is the greatest force in
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"The Ford PAS program inspired our students to succeed,
and they did.

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As a result, we have
adopted this modified program as one of our national models ."
"By collaborating with Ford PAS, we are able to provide advanced
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participate during the conference in a hands-on activity that will challenge
their preconceptions about the media and dramatize the dilemma of capturing
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"We're
very proud to have these students represent our program.
Through cooperative efforts with local high schools, colleges and
universities, community groups and business, students experience an extension
of learning beyond the classroom. "The Ford PAS
program and the many other educational programs supported by Ford Motor
Company Fund are carrying on that tradition.

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"We began a Ford PAS program in collaboration with Children 's
Aid Society in Detroit to reach young people who weren't engaged in the
classroom, and the outcomes exceeded our expectations.

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Located in Detroit, CAS has helped hundreds of thousands of troubled
children and families in Wayne County since it was founded by members of the
Presbyterian Church to help Civil War orphans in 1862. By building strong local partnerships with
business and higher education, Ford PAS encourages and prepares students for
success.

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These
partnerships give students an opportunity to visit local universities to use
their laboratories as well as meet with professors.

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Antoinette and Charles, as well as 13 other Ford PAS students, will
present projects they completed during the school year at the Ford PAS
national conference. University of Detroit
Mercy has partnered with Children's Aid Society on the Ford PAS program.com to download video, audio, text, graphics and
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"It provides a practical link between
classroom learning, higher education and workplace realities . They will present their findings to the 300
teachers and high school and college administrators who are attending the
conference.
University of Detroit Mercy supports several other high schools in the local
area who are currently using Ford PAS.

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It was developed to encourage
high school students to build careers in business, engineering and technology. In the last two years, the curriculum has
been adapted to also reach out to students not fully engaged in the
traditional academic setting ."
"Children's Aid Society is the oldest child serving agency in Michigan,
but we're always looking for new ways to meet the changing needs of the
children we serve," said Cal Williams, Executive Director, Children's Aid
Society.

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The Ford PAS program, which emphasizes academic knowledge , employability
skills and business concepts, is composed of five semester-long elective
courses taught in 10th, 11th and 12th grades."
Counseling is provided to youth and their families through funding from
The Skillman Foundation and United Way of Southeastern Michigan.
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