I recently attended a Unified Non Profit Meeting which focused on some of the great youth programs in the City of New Orleans. Wanted to share a few I learned about!
Knowledge Garden: Child Development Center (www.myknowledgegarden.com) Aims to provide a safe nurturing environment where infants and toddlers from the month through four year receive a firm foundation for learning and growth. Great programming to help further develop kids as well as allow parents to partner with the school.
Children’s Bureau (www.childrens-bureau.com) Children Bureau improves quality of life for children and families through valid and proven programs that enhance and strengthen mental health and wellness. Their programming and services include counseling, family preservation, crisis intervention, infant mental health, community education, mental health consultation to childcare center and Project LAST, which help to meet needs of children and families impacted by grief.
Crescent City Lights Youth Theater (www.crescentcitylights.org) Provides educational and performance programs to the families of the Greater New Orleans area that change young people’s lives by fostering performing arts and life skills in a nurturing multi-cultural environment through instruction by professional in the theater arts.
Gulfsouth Youth Biodiesel Project (www.operationreach.org) Involves youth in community development and social entrepreneurship through Green Collar Job Training in which youth learn the ins and outs of how to turn raw organic material into eco-friendly alternative fuel.
New Orleans Outreach (www.nooutreach.org) Improve the quality of public education at our partner schools by linking volunteers and community resources through high quality in-school and afterschool programs that respond to the needs of each school.
Photo Credit: http://www.operationreach.org/about-us/
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