Enrollment
It remains the goal of the
Friends of Carter Barron Foundation of the Performing Arts to
recruit through the district agency, the Department
of Employment Services, Office of Youth Programs
to ensure that each selected candidates meet the following criteria:
- federal/poverty income guidelines
- reside in the District of Columbia
- selected or express a career
interest in the Performing or Computer Arts Occupations
- enrolled in a
public/charter/private local school.
The aforementioned guidelines ensures
that youth acquire stipends throughout the secondary training years with
our organization, as they undergo intense and individualized
academic, work-readiness/life management and occupational proficiencies.
The
majority of our young participants are selected through our referral agency, the
Department of Employment Services, as subsidized enrollees. At DOES, youth
either sign-up for the Friends Performing Arts year-round or Technical or
Performing Arts independent summer programs.
In
addition, an enrollee must select one of the Friends performing arts or computer
graphic, as their career interest or choice.
Subsidized youth are reviewed for low-income eligibility, ages 14-21 must
reside in the District of Columbia
, as well as enrolled in a public school setting.
Other
enrolled youth, are titled as non-subsidized.
The enrollment fees for the year-round training is three thousand ($3K)
dollars, or one thousand $1K for each semester-based program design.
The eligibility is only based on ages, 14-18 and enrolled in a school
setting.
However,
parent(s) / guardian(s) can earn discounts up to two hundred ($200) or five
hundred ($500) dollars. These
discounts are achieved under the following enrollment conditions:
-
when two semester-based
programs are paid upfront (before the start of the program) within the same
year, the summer program becomes reduced by $500
-
or
an upfront payment for the
summer authorizes a $200 reduction for
enrollment.
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