LATINO EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT INITIATIVE (LEA)
OCBC's LEA program was developed to help fill the gaps left by education by assisting Latino parents on how to advocate for their children and to spark the importance of education in Latino neighborhoods. The Latino Educational Attainment initiative is working to unify the community, students and parents to produce a highly skilled workforce for the future and create neighborhood-based groups that will provide navigational skills to parents in all of the areas around the 100 low-performing schools in the county.

Click here for more information on the 2010 LEA Reception.

Check out LEA's profile in the Orange County Register.

Are you a parent already participating in LEA?  Please download the parent survey in English or Spanish. 

View the Latino Educational Attainment Guiding Principles and the Ten Education Commandments for Parents.

Latino Educational Attainment Facilitator’s Guide: English | Spanish | Korean l Vietnamese

LEA COMMITTEE
The LEA committee is dedicated to empowering a key partner in the success of Latino students – their parents. The committee works to fill the gaps left by education, to assist Latino parents on how to advocate for their children and to spark the importance of education in Latino neighborhoods, the Latino Educational Attainment initiative is working to unify the community, students and parents to produce a highly skilled workforce for the future. For more information on how to get involved in the committee, please contact Alicia Berhow, Director of Workforce Development.

FUNDING PARTNERS

• AT&T
• Chevron
• Northwestern Mutual Finacnial Network, The Waltos Group
• Orange County Business Council
• Orange County Department of Education
• Orange County United Way
• Orange County Register/Excélsior
• Time Warner Cable

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

• 4th District PTA
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Orange County
• FaCT
• Garden Grove Unifed School District
• Girls Inc.
• KidWorks
• Fullerton Collaborative
• CREER
• Project Access
• Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

LEA ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Created and printed 30,000 copies of the Ten Education Commandments for Parents Comic Book in English and Spanish.
  
• Received inquiries from over 30 school districts across California, requesting copies of the “Ten Education Commandments for Parents” Facilitator’s Guide.
  
• Trained over 9,000 parents on the “Ten Education Commandments for Parents” program.
  
• Coordinated the expansion to 17 parent coalitions in the following cities: Fullerton, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, San Juan Capistrano, Westminster, and Garden Grove.
  
• Received a grant donation from the Santa Ana Empowerment Zone for $100,000.
  
• Wrote the ten-week article series on the "Ten Commandments Education for Parents," published by the Orange County Register/Excélsior (Jan 10 – Mar 17, 2006).
  
• Participated with the White House Initiative on improving education achievement among Hispanic Students.
  
• Highlighted LEA as a promising practice program at the Orange County State of Education Forum.
  
• Received the support and cooperation of the Santa Ana Unified School District to train every school Principal on the “Ten Commandments.
• Developed a second product titled "The Developmental Assets" a guide for parents to assist with their child's development.