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Training Education Partnership Planning Forums The Texas Association of Partners in Education is proud to announce it’s newest state wide programming effort geared at engaging all sectors in the planning and implementation of education partnerships; Education Partnership Planning Forums. Find out how we are reaching out across Texas to help schools connect with their community leaders. For more information on dates and locations, click here. State Education Partnerships Conference The TAPE Education Partnerships Conference and Awards Banquet will be held January 24-26, 2010 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX. We are pleased to announce that we will again, hold our next conference in conjunction with the Texas Association of School Administrators, during their Midwinter Conference.  The combined attendance for these conferences is expected to be over 4,000 people and will include, school administrative personnel, educators, Chamber of Commerce leaders, business and community leaders and school PTA/PTO Presidents. See the Annual Conference page for details.

Youth Teaching Assets
TAPE has developed a powerful high school student- led model of teaching other high school teens about Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets (www.search-institute.org).  Teens train other teens.  Both the teen leaders and those teens they are training have benefited by learning how to go about intentionally sharing positive relationships with and attitudes toward each other and with Houston’s adults. These training opportunities have changed the lives of many of Greater Houston’s community of low income and ethnically diverse high school students.  Communities in Schools-Houston (CIS), is a nonprofit organization that has a project manager in the school that assists with all of the issues that keep kids from learning and graduating.

Protect Your Assets
TAPE realizes that a strong connection exists between understanding how to properly handle personal finances and the reality of potentially enjoying personal financial stability and success. When one understands how to best benefit from their own personal finances, this can greatly impact the quality of their life. Personal monetary decisions that one makes are critical and often it is young people who act before they understand the ramifications of their actions.  Poor decisions can result in huge financial burdens that are hard to overcome- like a deep hole out of which one has trouble climbing. These financial burdens affect so many areas of one’s life- from attitudes to health to the type of home they can afford to live in.  On the other hand, good, solid financial decisions based on understanding and knowledge can result in positively enhancing one’s life.  Knowledgeable and informed decisions can contribute positively to one’s mental and physical well being throughout life. Thanks to a grant from State Farm Insurance , TAPE has developed Protect Your Assets trainings that expose these teens to financial issues about which they are unaware or about which they have had poor examples of how to best handle from their families.  Training the YTA teens with personal finance knowledge then guiding them to share that knowledge with other teens through teen led trainings is the heart of   “Protect Your Assets.”  This will create a new opportunity for the teens to learn and gather assets from each other!

Houston Healthy Community Healthy Youth
TAPE believes that it takes the whole village to raise our children. In support of this belief, TAPE has embraced the initiative started by the Search Institute called Healthy Community * Healthy Youth. Instead of focusing only on reducing risks and intervening in problems, this initiative is rallying to rebuild the foundation of development that all young people need - a foundation that has crumbled for far too many young people in our society. In 2001, TAPE initiated the Houston Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Initiative. The Houston HCHY initiative started as a series of meetings with youth focused organizations to determine the willing participants in the effort to rally young people. As a result of these and many more meetings to come, the group hosted several significant events and workshops. To find out the newest HHCHY programming effort, click here.