RESOURCES FOR KIDS

There are various factors that would influence children’s success and well-beings. 

• Households’ Socioeconomic Status
• Parental support
• Environment of Neighborhoods
• Activities Done Outside of School

These are all the vital part of children’s life and significantly influencing their happiness and success.
In order to support children in Hispanic and Black communities to experience the least educational and economic gaps and prepare them with most opportunities to success, we came up with some ways that address with concerns above: 

Aftercare Programs

• What is it: Providing supervision for students after schools ended for the day. Taking care of kids with parents that work outside the home come home to empty houses. Good balance of academic support, recreation, nutrition. 
• Benefits: Academic Achievement, Social and Emotional Development, Prevention from Risky Behaviors, Health and Wellness
• Time flexibility: can either run directly after school, during the weekends or even during holidays.

Financial literacy programs:

• What is it: Providing finance education to help young people understand how to manage money, teaches various financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting, and investing. 
• Benefits: making informed and effective decisions with all of their financial resources. support various life goals, such as saving for education or retirement, using debt responsibly, and running a business.

Community Space:

• What is it: Bringing families and kids within the community together and having a conversation about difficulties they are experiencing, utilizing the everyone’s potential to help each other. 
• Benefits: Utilizing intergenerational support systems. Helping kids build deeper bonds with people around them. Improving community environment.

Security Improvement around School Areas

• What is it: checking up on the security devices and improve them. For example, construct secure perimeter and regulate entrances, enact strong visitor management program, leverage technology to screen visitors.
• Benefits: Lowering the crime rate around schools and making sure the safety of kids, benefiting children’s mental health by making them feel safe.

Mental health Consulting 

• What is it: Providing children with access to consult with their mental health issues when it’s hard for parents to solve it for children. Periodically checking up on kids about their feelings about schools, family, and everything they need to talk about.
• Benefits:Stabilizing children’s mental health and well-beings. 

1. Columbia heights, D.C.: High percent of kid and single parent, high Un-enrollment rate, lower educational level. 
2. Brightwood, D.C.: An African American neighborhood with high percent of children and young adults.
3. Mission hills, LA: Hispanic neighborhood with high percent of children and young adults. Much higher percent of children in poverty, especially Hispanic and black children. 
4. Wrightwood, Chicago: High percent of children living in poverty family, high crime rate.
5. Logan Square, Chicago: High violent crime rate, has 10% kids 
6. West Garfield Park, Chicago: The most dangerous neighborhood, African American dominated neighborhood, it has high percent of children, 72% of children live in poverty, 96% of adults do not have a 4-year college degree.

Throughout our research, there are many organizations that we could reach out and work together for the same goal of giving kids better life:

Washington, DC:

Partners for Kids in Care

• Provide much-needed items and enriching experiences to children and youth in foster care and at-risk families in the child welfare system. They seek sponsorship for educational and recreational activities for children and teens in foster care. Example: plays, concerts, movies, and sports events. They have also worked with local businesses in DC to organize arts and crafts projects, dinners, and parties. 
• Link: https://cfsa.dc.gov/page/partners-kids-care
• Address: 200 I Street SE, Washington, DC, 20003
• Contact: Beatrice Williar, PFK Program Manager via email at beatrice.williar@dc.gov or by calling 202-727-7101; Angela Robinson, PFK Program Specialist via email: angela.drobinson@dc.gov or by calling 202-442-6013

Global Kids

• Focuses on under-resourced schools and neighborhoods to help students become successful and ultimately to become leaders. Young people learn about global issues and how they related experiences in their own lives. Students design and lead service-learning and civic engagement activities, exploring how to catalyze change in their communities. College and career prep activities are also conducted. Host guest speakers that include diplomats and international business leaders.
• Link: https://globalkids.org/gk-dc-programs/
• Phone: 202-470-0384
• Email: dcinfo@gloabalkids.org
• Address: 99M Street SE, 4th Floor, Washington DC 20003

An Open Book Foundation

• Brings award-winning authors and illustrators to over 120 schools and organizations in DC. They conduct fun, interactive reading and writing workshops that engage students in the art of storytelling, and each child receives a signed book to take home. An Open Book Foundation seeks out authors and illustrators who have similar childhood experiences as the children in the program. Since 2010, AOB has hosted over 400 events and donated over 25,000 books to schools and organizations.
• Link: http://anopenbookfound.org/
• Phone:202-686-7115
• Email: info@anopenbookfound.org
• Address: 5901 Utah Ave., N.W., Washington DC 20003

Resources to Inspire Students and Educators (RISE)

• RISE provides high-quality educational resources to low-income students in order to help them graduate from high school and prepare them for a successful future. They provide one-on-one tutoring for at-risk students and children with learning disabilities. They also conduct an intensive summer math program; and a Saturday Academy that provides extra support for students who have fallen behind. Since 2003, RISE has raised the academic skills and performance of over 1,500 students. 95% of these students graduated from high school and 90% of the graduates enrolled in college.
• Link: https://risedc.org/
• Phone:202-966-4814
• Email: info@risedc.org 
• Address: P.O. Box 15231, Washington, DC 20003

Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection

• HW-SC serves over 800 at-risk youth at nine middle and high schools. They provide employment training and academic support. Young Advocates serve as mentors in school, at home, and on the job. Academic tutoring offers support in all subjects and on state assessments and standardized tests and helps with college applications. Students complete an intensive, 25-hour youth employment training program, and after interviews are conducted, they receive job placements at partner sites. With the involvement of HW-SC, graduation rates hit 81% in 2016.
• Link: https://www.hillside.com/about-us/family-agencies/regions-affiliates/hwsc/
• Phone: 585-256-7500
• Email: feedback@hillside.com 
• Address: 6305 Ivy Ln #420, Greenbelt, MD 20770

YMCA 

• An organization and social service agency that is based in different parts of Washington DC. As a national community organizing group, they have the funds to help provide the services. Additionally, as the neighborhood is predominately minoring this would be a good way to interact with them at a community level
• Link: https://www.ymcadc.org/contact-us/
• Phone: 202-232-6700
• Email: linda.blake@ymcadc.org
• Address: 1112 16th Street, NW, Suite 240, Washington, DC 20036

Prep for Prep

• A non-profit organization that is primarily focused on bolstering the education of elementary and high school students.
• Link: https://www.dcprep.org/Contact
• Phone: 202-635-4590
• Address: 707 Edgewood Street, NE Washington, DC 20017

For the Love of Children 

• A non-profit organization that is based in Washington D.C. 
• Link: https://floc.org/
• Phone: 202-462-8686
• Address: 1301 Pennsylvania Ave. SE Washington, D.C. 20003

Los Angeles:

Mission Hills Christian Church

• An inclusive and affirming community of Jesus followers that celebrates people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, ethnicities, and economic classes. The church seeks to make positive commitments to the neighborhood by loving well, pursuing the common good, and seeking the well-being of all people in mission hills. 
• Link: https://missionhillsla.com/
• Phone: 818-361-2710
• Email: MISSIONHILLSLA@GMAIL.COM
• Address: 14941 Devonshire Street, Los Angeles, California 91345

Security company Photo-Scan

• Photo-Scan of Los Angeles is a security company which is located in Los Angeles, California has been providing impeccable customer support and commercial security since 1972. Photo-Scan of Los Angeles (PSLA) can provide more advanced surveillance system, access control, fire detection system and intercom system in Mission Hills neighborhood.
• Link: http://pslasecurity.com/
• Phone: 800-820-PSLA 
• Address: 759 E Cochran Street, Unit B Simi Valley, Los Angeles, California 93065

California Community Foundation

• Vibrant and enduring resource committed to fulfilling the promise of Los Angeles County. This foundation works with donors and nonprofit organizations on creating systemic change in major issues to improve the lives of residents in LA. 
• Link: https://www.calfund.org/
• Phone: 213-413-4130
• Email: INFO@CALFUND .ORG
• Address: 221 S Figueroa St #400, Los Angeles, California 90012

Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation 

• A foundation that support Los Angeles-based good works since 1949. Some specific areas this foundation focuses are education, medicine, religion and aid to those in need.
• Link: https://www.dohenyfoundation.org/about/contact-us/
• Phone: 213-488-1122
• Address: 707 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 4960, Los Angeles, California 90017

Crail-Johnson Foundation

• Promote the well-being of Children in need, through the effective application of human and financial resources.
• Link: https://www.crail-johnson.org/
• Phone: 310-519-7413
• Address: 461 West 6th Street, suite 300, San Pedro, CA 90731 

Chicago: 

Lincoln park community center (Wrightwood)

• Gives out meals to families in need and has been particularly active this past month due to pandemic-induced financial stresses Also serves as a culture driver, as they make coloring books of local artists’ murals and encourage children’s creative expression. Just moved into a brand-new facility last June, meaning they are eager to engage in new ways with the community
• Link: https://lpcschicago.org/
• Phone: 773-549-6111 
• Address: 600 W Fullerton Pkwy, Chicago, IL 60614

Northwest Food Partners Network (Logan Square)

• The mission for NEPF is to provide quality food, promote self-sufficiency and wellness, and build a bridge between emergency food providers and community issues on the Northwest Side of Chicago. Their network includes food pantries, hot meal programs, faith-based organizations, healthcare providers, social service centers, and other allies in the fight against hunger.
• Link: https://nfpnchicago.org/
• Phone: 773-954-2713 
• Address: 3533 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647