Common Goals

PAC Family Wakulla County Graduation Day
Families learn to work together toward common goals

Since Parenting has been identified as the single greatest predictor of academic success and social skills as potentially the most important predicator of future employability, productivity and career success, the PAC Success Academies seek to address both.

An opportunity for change:

• 29% of Florida's children live with parents who do not have full-time, year round employment.
  
  
• Family members in 50% of all Florida households with incomes below the poverty level cannot read on an 8th grade level.
  
  
• Children's literacy levels are strongly linked to the educational levels of the parents.
  
  
• Children whose parents lack a high school diploma are more than twice as likely to live in poverty then are children whose parents are high school graduates.
  
  
• 49% of prisoners reported not having a high school diploma or GED.
  
  
• In fiscal year 1997-1998  107,095 youths in Florida were referred to a program with delinquency.
  
  
• The rate of reported violent juvenile crime to the total juvenile population in Florida is three times higher than the national rate for 1995.