Tips for Planning a GO Center

• Identify one person to head up the development.  Select an individual interested in the project.
• Identify the different audiences who use the GOCenter, for example:  middle and high school students, dropouts, parents, young adults, and other community members searching for a new start, and staff.
• Secure administrative support.
• Set up a budget.  Identify in-school and out-of-school financial resources i.e., PTSA, Perkins Funding (career/technology supervisor).
• Coordinate the plan and future development with other high schools, middle schools, and out-of-school agencies.
• Involve the advisory committee.  Assign member to subgroups with plans to make, goals to reach, items to collect and contacts to be made. 
• Work with Local School Advisory Team to tell the GO Center story.  Involvement reaps participation.
• Ask for help and advice from the GDOE, V. Snyder at vsnyder@doe.k12.ga.us
• Write the plan.  Include objectives, procedures, deadlines, budgets.

Develop an inventory of what’s available and what’s needed early on and keep it up-to-date.

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