Elev8 Success Stories

Some of Elev8’s after-school offerings bring classroom subjects to life. For example, Sisters4Science gives girls the chance to meet women in science-oriented careers. On one Tuesday in November, nine young women from Perspectives sat down and talked with Gladys Nash, a registered nurse and case manager of high-risk obstetrics for the University of Chicago Hospitals.

In its first three months, Marquette Elementary School’s new health center attracted twice as many clients as expected.

Parents love it,” said Meredith Casey, the nurse practitioner at the center, which is run by Access Community Health Network. “I think a lot of people are switching over here because they like the care that they’ve gotten, and they like the convenience.”

Basketball at Wilson Middle School in Albuquerque, NM, is popular, but last year the team was forced to forfeit a number of games because too many of Wilson’s athletes had low grade-point averages.

Elev8 Chicago is becoming fully rooted in all five of its middle schools with the opening of on-site community health centers.

On April 18, 2009, Elev8 New Mexico students gave an "off the hook" performance of rap and Hip Hop dance as part of the Soul Verse Open Stage at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces, NM.

Elev8 New Mexico provided a much needed and timely support for families through its financial literacy program.

Students at Ames Middle School in Chicago received important lessons in how to cool tensions and warm relationships as part of Elev8 Chicago's summer learning programs.

When a teacher at Gadsden Middle School, in New Mexico, noticed that Eddie, a 7th grade student, had been suffering from headaches and anxiety and his grades were dropping, the teacher sent him to the school's new Elev8 health center.

On a rainy spring evening at Reavis Elementary in Kenwood, the hallways were lit and bustling. Three seventh-grade girls in cheerleading outfits leapt and waved their pom-poms, shouting, “Hi, welcome to the showcase!”

As part of the growing relationship between the Field Museum of Natural History and the Elev8 program, nine parent mentors from Marquette Elementary School in Chicago Lawn recently participated in a special tour of the museum.