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Program Model

The Puente program model consists of three interrelated components: writing, counseling and mentoring. Puente staff train high school and community college team members to implement a program of accelerated writing instruction, intensive academic counseling, and mentoring/leadership training by members of the community at sites throughout the state. The diagram below displays this interrelationship, which is the foundation of the program and its success.

Program Model Counseling Writing Mentoring

This interdisciplinary approach provides a focused, sustained, and engaging learning environment for students. This model and approach provides students with individual, culturally sensitive, academic and career counseling designed to help each of them graduate and enroll in a four-year institution. See Program Components for more detailed information.

Puente's staff training programs currently directly benefit approximately 14,000 students annually. Puente is open to all students.

 

"Puente merits serious attention by education policy makers. It offers an encouraging model for working with educationally underrepresented students whatever their ethnic, cultural or socioeconomic origins."
— G.M. Pradl, Professor of Education, NYU