Pilot Program in Haverhill, MA
Our initial pilot program, HP3, or Haverhill Public-Private Partnership, is helping define the process and key tasks we feel are necessary to prepare American youth to succeed in this new era.
Allison Heartquist
Allison Heartquist is a seasoned municipal leader with more than a decade of experience in local government, public service, and community partnership work. She previously served as Chief of Staff to the Mayor of Haverhill, MA, where she managed day-to-day operations in the mayor’s office, coordinated across city departments, and oversaw constituent services and strategic initiatives.
Before that role, Allison helped build and lead Haverhill’s 311 constituent services system and worked in senior support and advisory positions in other Massachusetts municipalities, giving her deep familiarity with city governance, budgeting, and stakeholder engagement. She has also served in elected office, bringing both administrative and policymaking experience to her work and grounding her leadership in direct community representation.
Building and refining the model together.
Over the past five years we have established formal relationships with the school system, the local Boys & Girls Club, and the local YMCA.
Working with these partners, we have been developing and refining key components such as the mentor program, large-group career exploration programs, and small-group sessions on career exploration, communication, problem solving, and financial skills. These programs are conducted in the schools, the Boys & Girls Club, and at the Y.
A community process that augments public education.
Expanding HP3 to full scale.
Our near-term goal is to expand the HP3 pilot to full scale to validate a model that can be employed in other communities.
The full model will augment public education with institutionalized apprenticeships, large-scale mentoring, defined pathways into in-demand fields, universal AI literacy, and creative ways to transport people to jobs.
“Prove the model locally, then carry the lessons - and the urgency - to communities across the nation.”
Taking the work beyond Haverhill.
Our subsequent goals include starting two additional pilots in other parts of the nation and building national awareness of the challenge and opportunity.
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