Inner City High School
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Main Contact: roxanne.blood@innercity.ca
Tel: (780) 424-9425
Address: 11205-101 Street, Edmonton, Alberta Canada T5G-2A5
About
For over 30 years, we have operated an independent, Alberta Education accredited high school in central Edmonton. We offer academic and arts based classes to students aged 15 to 19, and sometimes older on a case-by-case basis. The purpose of the school is to provide opportunities for Edmonton’s marginalized Indigenous and other urban youth, to earn a high school diploma, develop skills that can lead to full-time employment and prevent a return to a life on the street. We want all students to become contributing members of our community. Our high school offers a flexible but structured environment with small class sizes. Students receive individual and small group supports to address their unique needs and bridge the gaps in their education. We also provide supports like a hot lunch and snacks through our Youth Engagement Program. Our graduates are equipped to attend Alberta’s colleges and universities.
Region
Edmonton & Area.
Program Description
Inner City High School provides wrap around services in which marginalized students have access to social workers, caseworkers, probation officers, child & youth psychologists along with Elders from the local community. ICHS is an arts based educational school, through the arts the youth are able to bring out their creativity through through the various modes of music, art, traditional arts such as beading, rattle & drum making. We have afterschool programs in which the students can engage in various activities of volleyball, basketball, badminton, dance, rapping, electronic music and the recording studio. ICHS also offers breakfast, lunch and healthy snacks. Students have access to the foodbank which is utilized. Most important is the youth and staff have access to traditional smudging and to sit with Grandmother in Kookum's Korner. Our space in which students can feel free to unwind and come and sit and visit and just be.
Areas of Focus
- Peer mentoring (same or similar age)
- One-to-One Mentoring
- Group Mentoring
- In School Mentoring (Schools will think that all mentoring is in school mentoring)
Special Populations
- Children/Youth in Care
- Aboriginal Children/Youth
- Children/Youth with a Disability
- Rural/Remote
- 2SLGBTQ+ children and youth
- Immigrant Children/Youth
- Sexual Minority Children/Youth
- Girls/Women
- Boys/Men