The BTSSEP os a multi-faceted, collaborative effort designed to address academic deficiencies, develop and maintain an interest in teaching, involve parents in the educational process, provide academic enhancement activities, provide practical living activities,and promote character education. This project is envisioned and implemented as one to assist student participants to become successful, self-sufficient individuals. It is also an effort to provide parents with information and skills necessary to become self-sustaining citizens and become academic advocates for their children.

The philosophy if the BTSSEP aligns well with the last lines of the famous poem "Footprints". Program administrators believe that when students feel isolated and fearful, fail to make wise academic success, it is our role, as Educational Advocates, to support and carry them until they develop or recover the strength they need to proceed to the next phases of their lives.

"The times when you have seen only one set

of footprints in the sand

is when I carried you"