The Billy Thompson Foundation’s 5-Star Champion Enrichment Program is a one-of-a-kind experience offering a blend of academic support and fun activities. The program provides children between the ages of 9 and 18 an opportunity to explore various career options, discover their unique interests, and cultivate their gifts. An executive team of success coaches, teachers, and business professionals engage students in the realm of possibility so that they see themselves as winners, achieving, dreaming, and realizing their potential. The program is structured around a series of Academies, where at-risk and low-income students can discover and sharpen their unique talents and skill sets. Areas of focus include Law, Basketball, Business & Technology, Creative Productions (Audio, Video, Photography, Art & Design), Fashion (Sewing & Design), Performing Arts (Music, Dance, Mime & Drama), and Culinary Arts (Cooking & Baking). Students also participate in Purpose Portals designed to help them develop life skills such as Dressing for Success, Interviewing Skills, Etiquette, Understanding Potential, Leadership, Vision Casting, and more.
The purpose of the program is to create an environment where achievement and high aspirations are cultivated in at-risk and low-income children and to provide a focus-driven and wholesome learning environment that fosters growth, responsibility, character, and maturity.