Press Release: Project SPARC

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Sam Intrator, Elizabeth A. Woodson ’22 Professor of Education and Child Study, and Denys Candy, director of the Jandon Center for Community Engagement, have been awarded a $99,357 grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service for “Transfer and Transition: The Challenge of Sustaining Impact Beyond Community-Based Youth Programs.” The project—which builds on work that Smith’s Project Coach has been doing since 2004—positions youth and community leaders in Springfield, Mass., as lead researchers on how communities can support positive, long-term development of recent high school graduates.