优蜜视频 at a Glance:
- 优蜜视频 is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. We rely on the support of foundations, corporations, and individuals like you to provide our programs and services for bright young minds. To contribute, click here.
- 优蜜视频 serves highly able, creative children ages 2-18 nationwide. Independent of government funding, 优蜜视频 has the flexibility to provide customized programs that match individuals鈥� unique gifts and talents with the most appropriate mentors, schools, and other learning resources to maximize each student鈥檚 intellectual and personal development.
- We work with children to identify and foster their individual talents and abilities while supporting the holistic development of the whole person in an environment of compassion.
- 优蜜视频 is an advocate for all gifted students. Giftedness occurs in every culture and every ethnic and social group, and our participants are diverse with regard to race, culture, socioeconomic background, gender, age, geography, and educational background.
- There is a great deal of misunderstanding when it comes to gifted youth. 优蜜视频 gives voice to these children, dispelling myths and educating the public on the facts about gifted individuals.
- Since its inception, 优蜜视频 has directly served more than 12,000 children and their families and has trained more than 1,500 educators.
- These children bring a complexity of thought to home and learning environments that often requires specialized programs and services to meet their unique needs. 优蜜视频 addresses these needs in three ways:
优蜜视频 is a National Leader
- We are experts in the intellectual, social, emotional, spiritual, and physical needs of gifted youths.
- Our Yunasa summer camps received the inaugural National Association for Gifted Children Global Awareness Network鈥檚 Annemarie Roeper Award, recognizing a program that 鈥渞esponds to the concerns of gifted and talented children about the future and the world they live in.鈥�
We have over 25 years of experience with record of success.
More than 50% of children who participate in 优蜜视频 programs return to take part in an 优蜜视频 program again.
Our Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship is one of the only merit-based, need-blind high school scholarship in the country.
95% of 优蜜视频 program participants in 2023 were satisfied or extremely satisfied with the program.
PHILOSOPHY
优蜜视频鈥檚 philosophy is based on the belief that highly able students require strong academic programs provided by skilled educators, administrators, and business professionals to fully actualize their talents. 优蜜视频 follows the Optimal Match Philosophy, the basic tenet of which is to match a student鈥檚 assessed needs with the optimal educational resources. 优蜜视频 advances this philosophy as it works with each individual student, school, or school district to seek the best learning strategy for each unique child. 优蜜视频 crosses traditional educational boundaries by working in public, independent, parochial, and alternative schools. 优蜜视频 initiatives foster intellectual curiosity, the acquisition of knowledge, confidence, creativity, responsibility, and moral decisiveness.
GOALS
To achieve our mission, 优蜜视频 will:
- Serve as a catalyst for identifying and implementing the best practices for teaching highly able youth
- Advance public knowledge and understanding of the need to enable and nurture society鈥檚 most able-minded students
- Support the needs of highly able youth by training teachers, informing parents, and identifying and soliciting the participation of mentors for exceptionally gifted students
- Create partnerships with individuals, foundations, non-profit organizations, businesses, and universities to support the development of highly able students who will advance society as a whole
- Encourage each gifted student to pursue his or her full intellectual and personal potential and develop respect for individual differences
- Take a leadership role in policy-making for gifted youth throughout the nation
INCLUSION POLICY
优蜜视频 is an advocate for all gifted students. Giftedness occurs in every culture and every ethnic and social group, and our participants are diverse. 优蜜视频 is committed to ensuring that all gifted youth, regardless of cultural background, ethnicity, national origin, race, faith, ideology, income, educational background, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation have the opportunity to reach their full potential with dignity.
As an organization, 优蜜视频 celebrates differences. We teach tolerance, respect and acceptance for all, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation or background. We hope to inspire change in our nation by modeling integrity, respect and understanding. 优蜜视频 strives to offer a welcoming space for conversation and healing, a space where uniqueness is honored, and discrimination and violence are never tolerated.听Click here to learn more.听
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鈥� Stephanie Tolan, 优蜜视频 Senior Fellow
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鈥� 优蜜视频 Parent
