Many thanks to Rat Creek Press for their recent article on Inner City and to the students who participated! The article was titled "Determination is crucial for success" and it featured how students from Inner City High School are using personal responsibility to fuel their studies.
Nadine Riopel wrote the article after visiting and the school and interviewing students. The full article can be read at the link below.
Goodbye Alexina! After 28 years, Alexina retired but not without a send off.
Inner City High School first opened with nine students in February 1993. That would make this our 25th year of offering an accredited arts and academic high school for Edmonton’s marginalized urban youth.
Many thanks to the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation for their support this holiday and throughout the year.
Our 2016-2017 Annual Report is now available online. The report outlines how we are working together to provide arts and academic programming for Edmonton’s high risk youth.
At Christmas time our Edmonton team assembles a backpack full of necessities and a few treats for each youth in our programs. Each pack generally contains bus tickets, $50 in assorted gift cards for food and necessities, $25 in movie tickets, gloves, a hat, socks, chocolate bars and sometimes blankets. We balance the bags carefully to ensure that the offerings are appropriate and nearly identical.
““We have approximately 100 to 150 students who could use a holiday backpack this year.””
We rely on cash donations supplement our programming so that youth can move forward. We are also grateful to thoughtful donors who wish to brighten our youths' season with new items that bring holiday cheer.
We divide the donations we receive evenly among our youth.
Here are the items we need to supplement what we have already received.
Please contact us to discuss your items and arrange a time with our staff for you to drop them off. Please leave all donations unwrapped and please do not pre-package your donations into individual gifts for our youths.
You can also make an online donation by visiting Canada Helps and donating to us through their service.
We thank you for your support.
