United Way Goal: School-age children and youth attain the academic, technological and social competencies to succeed in life.
Center for Youth Development
The Center for Youth Development provides training and technical assistance to improve the quality of the community’s after school, summer, and enrichment programs for youth. The Center’s work uses a positive youth development model, which includes building coalitions of neighborhood and community stakeholders to share resources and build infrastructure to positively influence young people. In 2003, CYD provided customized technical assistance to approximately 300 youth serving agencies, and trained over 1200 youth workers. Over 50,000 youth are affected by this work.
Eagles Bookmobile
The Eagles Bookmobile visits schools, recreation centers, libraries, and summer camps to read aloud to children and to give away new books to children from low-income households, many of who have never owned their own book. United Way plays a crucial role in reaching thousands of children thorough coordinating Bookmobile visits to 238 community locations.
Campaign
for Mentors
Mentoring
is the matching of caring and responsible adults
with young people to provide coaching, constructive
examples, and expanded opportunities.
Mentoring is a proven strategy for increasing
the success of young people as they move towards
adulthood.
The Campaign for Mentors seeks to promote
quality mentoring in our region.
The Campaign's goal is to "close
the mentoring gap" by matching 100,000
new mentors with young people who need them.
This program provides resources for all aspects
of mentoring, and works with individuals, companies,
schools, faith-based programs, and non-profits
interested in seeing an increase in the number
of mentors for young people.
The Partnership links individuals to
children who need mentors and we teach other
organizations how to establish their own quality
mentoring programs.
Last year the Partnership served over
18,000 children and youth with 9800 mentors,
working with 236 organizations participating
in our network of mentor providers.
The Teen Technology Network
The Teen Technology Network is an after-school program for West Philadelphia and University City High School students designed to help improve academic performance and develop their use of technology as a tool for personal development. Involved students come to community technology centers for these classes twice a week in ten-week modules. Over the course of the ten weeks, they are engaged in academic activities, service learning projects, as well as an online mentoring relationship with adults from the community. TTN participants receive a free computer for their household, and paid internships are available upon completion of the program.
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