school 12 years old in 6th grade and my youngest is in kindergarten good evening, everybody i'm melanie gordon i'm a third generation family involved with the title vii indian education program my children represent marina middle school and a fourth gardener at sanchez school. >> so the foundation of our program is knowledge cultural and pride some of the part of our program that we offer for our community is weekly academic support with after school tutoring this is critical for the academic success we also offer monthly family night for writing to connect the students and community members we also a critical piece of our programs families are able to come together at least once a month to connect in a safe place that promotes education and cultural needs for our students to offer the tours we've been uc berkley and davis and there's other students that are successfully achieving they're higher education we also have an annual event at the end of the school year an annual moving forward i believe that some of the folks are attend this event which we close out the school year honoring our rldz