Edge Foundation

Edge is going train the wonderful people who work with Gents Alliance members in public senior high schools throughout the Valley to make them even more effective! Edge will give them intensive training in executive function coaching and follow this with continuing advice from an accredited coach throughout the school year. Gents Alliance helps young men, nearly all Hispanic, prepare for adult life, which may include higher education, post-secondary training, apprenticeships or other good pathways outlined in the valley's Regional Plan for College and Career Success. Edge is grateful to Anderson Children’s Foundation for helping make Gents Alliance become even more effective with the students it mentors.

Contact: Neil Peterson, Founder, Chairman and CEO

Email: npeterson@edgefoundation.org

In the In-School Coaching Program, Edge focuses on behavioral and learning challenges related to executive functioning and employs a rigorous, evidence-based intervention plan tailored for each student, using Edge-trained one-on-one executive coaches. Edge Coaches are school employees selected for proven ability to relate to frustrated, underachieving youth and specifically trained to help students with executive functioning challenges. With the help of these coaches, students work toward achieving goals, receive executive skills training, and participate in consistent, weekly coaching sessions.

The Edge In-School Coaching Program was developed as a way to encourage high academic performance and discourage students from dropping out of school. Connections between poverty and poor school performance have been proven, particularly in communities of color like the Coachella Valley. By focusing on executive functioning skills that impact school performance and coming up with specific goals, students become motivated to succeed in school, graduate, and seek professional success.