Program News
Family Engagement
Since family and community engagement is essential for student success, Marist College Liberty Partnerships Program (LPP) created a full-time Family Engagement Coordinator (FEC) position in 2017. The main [...]
Empire Promise
The 2019 Empire Promise Youth Summit kicked off our 30th Anniversary Celebration of the Liberty Partnerships Program! Thank you to all 350+ in attendance for making the 15th [...]
The Importance of Advocacy Day – A Liberty Counselor’s Perspective
As Liberty counselors, Advocacy Day is our favorite enrichment event to engage our Liberty students in. This event provides students with a comprehensive experience learning about government, leadership, [...]
Liberty Partnerships Program Focuses on Summer Melt
LPP offers holistic, research-based, pre-collegiate/dropout prevention programs and services to school-age students across New York State. These programs support students' overall social, emotional, academic, and vocational development, along [...]
Binghamton Teens Build Ramp for City Resident
"BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- It's a summer vacation of giving back. A group of Binghamton teens isn't spending their time-off indoors. Instead, they're coming together to improve their community. [...]
An opportunity to make Schenectady a better place
"It was back in the spring that Tyrell Outlaw began taking an interest in the park near his house. He swept broken glass off the basketball court, and [...]
Highlighting Utica’s true strength
"Alexia Vo, a rising senior at Thomas R. Proctor High School, won the annual Give Back to Utica essay contest, earning a paid summer internship at the Utica [...]
Newsletter: Program Summer 2019 Report
The Liberty Partnerships Program (LPP) was established in 1988 under Section 612, Subdivision 6 of the Education Law to address the significant dropout rate among New York’s youth. [...]
JCC’s Liberty Partnerships Program holds camp
"JAMESTOWN — Jamestown Community College’s Liberty Partnerships Program welcomed 22 high school students from Jamestown, Dunkirk, and Salamanca to a camp experience earlier this summer. Participants in the [...]
30 Years of Liberty
In 1988, the then senior Governor Cuomo called upon the state to invest in critical support for youth and address the significant drop out rate by stating, “the [...]
Community Foundation awards almost $1 million to CNY nonprofits
"Utica, N.Y. — The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties awarded more than $225,000 to six nonprofit organizations through its competitive grants process for the first quarter [...]
UC Students Lobby To Save Program Funding (Features YSLPP Alumns Marangely Delgado ’17 & Jasmine Pena ’15)
"A group of Utica College students are going to Lobby Day in Albany on Tuesday to support funding for programs that they say have helped them make it [...]