| 1981 |
One-week summer camp for high school boys
begins. |
| 1982 |
One-week summer camp for middle school boys
added. |
| 1985 |
Programs for summer camp participants expand
to in-school, after school and weekends. |
| 1988 |
Year-round in-school, after school, weekend
and summer programs expand to serve boys and
girls in three middle schools and Jefferson
High School. |
| 1989 |
Year-round programs expand to three elementary
schools. |
| 1994 |
Family Services
begins, providing intensive services to families
in partnership with Oregon Services to Children
and Families and Multnomah County Department
of Community Justice. |
| 1995 |
SEI Pamplin
Fellows, leadership development for high school
students, begins. |
| 1997 |
Center for
Self Enhancement opens.
Elementary School program expands to serve
two more schools, bringing total number of
schools served to 11.
After-school, weekend and summer programs
open to students not involved in SEI through
their school. |
| 1999 |
SAMHSA,
three-year federal research project evaluating
effect of mentoring on alcohol and other drug
use in middle school students, begins. |
| 2000 |
SEI becomes the new home of the Multnomah
County Northeast Community and Family Services
Center. |
| 2001 |
SEI celebrates its 20th Anniversary of
providing positive options to Portland's inner
city youth. |
| 2003 |
Portland
Public School board approves SEI application
to open a charter middle school. |
| 2004 |
SEI becomes
provider of Schools Uniting Neighborhoods
(SUN) after-school program at four Portland
Public Schools.
SEI Academy begins with its first sixth
grade class. |
| 2005 |
SEI Academy
adds a seventh grade class. |
| 2006
|
SEI celebrates
25 years of providing positive options to
Portland inner city youth. |
| 2007
|
SEI launches
new business plan to strengthen and expand
the core program and prepare for replication. |