Education Resources
After-School Programs
LA's BEST
Information on after-school programming for Los Angeles area children.
Children,
Youth and Families Collaborative
Information on various programs to help
foster youth succeed academically, including after-school and
weekend tutoring and remedial help.5
Creative Education Classes
In this program, foster youth and other at-risk youth from the South Los Angeles area are given the opportunity to uncover hidden talents and gifts and develop them into a lifelong practice through the guidance of nurturing professionals. Each weekend, Peace4Kids provides free creative education classes for these youth ages 8 -13. The projects encourage the children to explore self-expression as a means to establish their own individuality. Many of the courses provided are in the areas of health, nutrition, sports, computers, and the arts.
Peace4Kids
Peace4Kids provides creative and educational
courses, field trips, summer camping trips, life skills and mentorship
opportunities for over 200 youth, ages 5-19.
Street Poets
Street Poets is a non-profit poetry-based
peace-making organization dedicated to the creative process as a
force for individual and community transformation. Their
mission is:
TO INSPIRE at-risk youth in
the juvenile detention facilities, schools and streets of Los Angeles
County to discover and develop their voices as writers, artists and
human beings;
TO EMPOWER these young people to use the skills and
increased self-awareness engendered through the arts to transcend
self-destructive lifestyles;
TO CREATE a healing community that unites
different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic segments of the city around
the transformational power of the creative process.
Street Poets holds
weekly workshops at their office (Seeking Peace,
Tuesdays 4-6 p.m. and Studio Recording Sessions,
Fridays 4-7 p.m.), probation camps and at public and alternative
high schools in Los Angeles. In
the last three years, they've produced 4 CDs of music and poetry
by our youth. You can download tracks from these CDs on their
website.
Teen Web/Teen Stuff Activities
Here's a link to some activities taking place at your local library that might be interesting to you.
Teen Web/Homework Help Sites
Here are some links to some good homework help websites.
Teen Web/Teen Reading Club
Reading Club participants will receive a variety of club materials including a book bag, an activity folder, and an exclusive passport of activities when they sign up at their local LAPL branch library. Members will also receive an achievement certificate at the end of the program.
Teen Web/Your Library
Find out about programs, Teen Council meeting dates and hours of your local library. Meet other teens in your neighborhood and help make the teen space in your library a fun place to go.
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