Type: Emotional Support

Target audience: Students

Beacon Center

Description: After school program located in the South Bronx servicing nearly 3,000 students and their families each year. Services include homework help, recreation, athletics and youth development programming.

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Step-Up

Description: The Step Up high school prep program consists of workshops designed to assist middle school students in becoming academically and developmentally prepared for high school.
The curriculum -- supported by an original workbook -- includes 16 workshops and exercises to address critical life skills. Some of the workshop topics include: teen pregnancy, decision-making, community development, peer pressure, financial literacy and career planning.

Concurrent with the workshop phase of the program, students are auditioned and rehearsed after-school to develop their artistic talents into positive performance pieces that promote the themes of Step Up. At the conclusion of each semester, all participating students will assemble at their school for a special event featuring the best talent in song, dance, poetry and theater.

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Map for Life

Description: Comprehensive academic program for middle-school and high-school students that utilizes weekly role model presentations, college trips, personalized goal-setting workbooks and workshops. To date, the program has placed over 3,500 role models from the community in City schools and over 400 visits to 38 different colleges and universities throughout NYS.

The Map for Life program is currently servicing 250 students throughout NYC. Its curriculum is designed to empower students to seek higher education and to assist and guide them in such an important transition. Within the framework of a comprehensive and carefully structured curriculum, which is integrated into their core middle- or high- school courses, they come to understand:

* The importance of successfully completing high school
* The value of higher education
* The wide variety of career and life choices open to them
* Their power to take control of their own destinies, actively define goals, set priorities, and make responsible choices about their futures

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HEY

Description: Helping Empower Youth is a city-wide youth leadership coalition that brings together students from schools and Beacon centers across NYC. HEY brings the skills, tactics and history of community development to potential leaders. HEY works with youth who have been victims of educational neglect and who have been disenfranchised politically. We work with youth whose understanding of the democratic process is limited and whose knowledge of social change is minimal.

HEY’s overall objective is to promote the creation of Youth Councils where young people can learn how to identify and act to transform community problems. HEY sessions involve the art of communications, community service, networking and building teamwork. Through a structured curriculum, this multi-cultural/ lingual group helps young people to identify problems facing their communities and develop action-oriented plans to address them.

Some of HEY’s last year’s accomplishments include the creation of ‘Neighborhood Cleaning Brigades’ in Brooklyn - with full participation of the community-, to address issues of waste and pollution that affected residents of the Sunset Park area; and the“Safety Zone”, which created safe havens in the South Bronx, addressing residents’ insecurity concerns - students talked to business owners to allow community members that felt in danger to make a phone call to secure a ride home.

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