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Follow psychologist and profiler Inger Johanne Vik. In Swedish with English subtitles in this WOSU Passport exclusive.

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Empowering Families At Akron's I Promise School

About 400 parents and kids load up their trays with dinner from Swensons and settle into the I Promise School cafeteria and gym for a quick guide to managing money, a pitch for flu shots and a student performance on messages hidden in old spirituals. These kinds of family gatherings happen once a month and at least 80 percent of the I Promise families participate, according to Nicole Hassen, the Akron Public Schools liaison to the LeBron James Family Foundation. That runs counter to national surveys, including one by the U.S. Department of Education that shows poverty cuts parent participation . It’s something Hassen said she experienced during her nearly 20 years as an Akron schools teacher. But she says she also learned, “All the parents want to do what’s best for their kids, but they just don’t necessarily know how or don’t feel welcomed. So when you offer that invitation and you mean it, they’re like, ‘Yes, I’ll do anything.’” In this case, “anything” is helping 225 third and

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