October 13th, 2023 | ASN Celebration Gala
You're invited to join us for an evening of networking and fun from 6-10pm at the Bridgeport Art Center, 1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609.
October 13th, 2023 | ASN Celebration Gala
We are inviting you to the ASN 50th Anniversary Gala at the Bridgeport Art Center to help us celebrate fifty years of creating great futures.
October 13th, 2023 | ASN Celebration Gala
We are inviting you to the ASN 50th Anniversary Gala at the Bridgeport Art Center to help us celebrate fifty years of creating great futures.
October 13th, 2023 | ASN Celebration Gala
We are proud to serve the Chicago community by providing important and quality programming that has impacted 50,000+ youth over 50 years.
October 13th, 2023 | ASN Celebration Gala
Celebrate with us at our 50th Anniversary Gala. Show your support by purchasing sponsorships and tickets. Looking forward to seeing you there!
October 13th, 2023 | ASN Celebration Gala
Your financial support ensures that youth receive engaging and positive academic and wraparound programs, both during and after school.
October 13th, 2023 | ASN Celebration Gala
Your involvement supports our vision of a global community where everyone has access to equal educational and employment opportunities.
ASN serves as a conduit for the work of its member schools and community-based programs, connecting the mission, goals, strategies and outcomes to create a unified community of active participants in programming. Through this role, ASN is able to link the voices of its partner communities to marshal resources and expertise that will improve the outcomes for its target populations.
In Chicago, nearly 40,000 youth between the ages of 15 and 20 and approximately 97,000 youth ages 16 to 24 are high school dropouts. These teens and young adults often find their personal circumstances too insurmountable to overcome on their own in order to stay in school.
Dropouts are 3.5 times more likely than high school graduates to be incarcerated in their lifetime. 90% of the 11,000 youth in adult detention facilities have no more than a 9th grade education.
High school dropouts are less likely to receive skills and experience needed for employment, which also impacts the development of the future workforce. In 2001, only 55% of young adult dropouts were employed (nationally), compared with 74% of high school graduates and 87% of four-year college graduates.
Dropouts earn less over their lifetime which equates to fewer tax contributions for the community. They also contribute to the state and federal tax coffers at only about one-half the rate of high school graduates; over a working lifetime about $60,000 or less, or $50 billion annually for the 23 million high school non-completers, ages 18-67.
Over the lifetime of each dropout, taxpayers bear the cost of approximately $290,000 due to loss of tax contributions, increased public assistance costs and correctional costs. Dropouts are substantially more likely to rely on public assistance than those with a high school diploma.
