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We assist youth in learning and completing schoolwork as needed. We have licensed school teachers who can provide this service.

Provides a variety of activities such as summer activities, arts and crafts, a game room, free meal program, club technology center, fitness center, boys and girls basketball league, archery, brain games, gardening program, and Boy and Girl scouts.
Educational enrichment programs are available year around. Computer Lab and Library on site.
Offers one-on-one literacy and math tutoring, age specific therapeutic playgroups (such as play therapy and language therapy) and career development programs. Starting from a pre-natal diagnosis to adult hood, GiGi's offers support and empowerment to individuals and their families. Also offer classes for art, drama, science, technology, fitness, cooking and singing. A full list of programs can be found at www.gigisplayhouse.org/desmoines/programs-therapeutic.

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Tutoring Services
Play Therapy
Disease/Disability Information
Language Therapy
City Life is a faith based, after school youth program offering tutoring and recreational activities for middle and high school students. Open to 11-19 year olds. Provides a relational, holistic, community-based ministry in which City Life teams raise up indigenous leaders from the young people living in the community.

Students meet weekly after school on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons for a family-style meal, games, activities, and discussion at The Underground City Life Teen Center.

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Tutoring Services
Faith Based Youth Programs
Youth Enrichment Programs

Offers an afterschool and summer programming to elementary and middle school students. Schools served during the school year include Edmunds, Walnut St., Hubbell, Perkins, JW Reed, Callanan and Merrill. Programming focuses on four tenets: Academics, Social Skill Building, Health, and Recreation.

The program offers the following free services to eligible students: professional tutoring, supplemental instruction (peer tutoring), advising, lunch workshops (topics include study skills, time management, and financial literacy), scholarship assistance, cultural events such as museum and theater visits, and a student parent support group.

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Instructional Support Services
Tutoring Services
Study Skills Assistance
Higher Education Bridge Programs

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

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Literacy Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Boys/Girls Clubs
Mentoring Programs

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

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Literacy Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Boys/Girls Clubs
Mentoring Programs
City Life is a faith based, after school youth program offering tutoring and recreational activities for middle and high school students. Open to 11-19 year olds. Provides a relational, holistic, community-based ministry in which City Life teams raise up indigenous leaders from the young people living in the community.

Students meet weekly after school on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons for a family-style meal, games, activities, and discussion at The Underground City Life Teen Center.

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Tutoring Services
Faith Based Youth Programs
Youth Enrichment Programs
Tutoring for children under age 12 from low income families. Dyslexia tutoring available.

Job readiness training class and work experience training and community service opportunities available. Transportation to job fairs (must meet qualifications; determined upon intake). Computer lab available to fill out applications on line. GED classes and adult dyslexia tutoring also available.

Workshops and classes related to financial education.

Helps parents advocate on behalf of their children with learning disabilities. Right to Educate advocate for students with special needs, including dyslexia.

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School System Advocacy
Housing Search Assistance
Prejob Guidance
Job Search/Placement
Financial Literacy Training
Tutoring Services
I LEARN is a center designed to assess, remediate, counsel, and facilitate an individual's learning to explore his/her unique learning styles, using personal strengths to overcome individual limitations. The center addresses the needs not only of school-aged children but also those of adults. Focus is on improving academic, perceptual, and cognitive skills through individualized programming to establish new foundations for learning.

I LEARN addresses difficulties such as learning disabilities (or differences), dyslexia, and ADD/ADHD. Clients are children and adults having problems with reading, spelling, handwriting, written language, mathematics, focusing attention, disorientation, movement and coordination, cognitive processing, and perceptual processing.

Academic assistance program funded through TRIO Grants by the U.S. Department of Education. The program is designed for low-income, first-generation college students or students with a disability. Participants will have the opportunity to meet with their TRIO/SSS advisor once a month, and are encouraged to participate in one of the various program activities each month.

Individual Support:

-- A thorough needs assessment and development of a Student Success Plan

-- Required academic advising and success coaching

Personal Support:

-- Career Exploration

-- Leadership Conferences

-- TRIO Club

-- Assistance completing FAFSA, scholarship and transfer applications

-- Financial Literacy Education

-- Student Success Workshops

-- Cultural Field Trips

-- Team Building Activities

Academic Support:

-- Structured first-year experience course

-- Academic transfer assistance and visits to four-year colleges

-- Access to a free laptop or iPad through the TRIO Device Loan Program

-- Tutoring and Supplemental Instruction

-- College Readiness Boot Camp

-- Educational Field Trips

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Higher Education Bridge Programs
Tutoring Services
Instructional Support Services
Study Skills Assistance

Provides after school programs that includes homework help, tutoring, snack, recreation, dance, basketball, arts and crafts, cooking, computer lab, Boy and GIrl scouts and more.

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

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Literacy Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Boys/Girls Clubs
Mentoring Programs

Offers various activities for youth, with an emphasis on suicide awareness and mental health. Programs include:

- Art Therapy.

- Dance Team.

- Iam-powerment: self care and hygiene plus resume and interview tips for girls.

- S.E.E.D.S.: Combination of arts-focused programs.

- Peace Jam: Advocacy organization for youth.

- Tutoring.

Social development, social recreation, art, dance, drama, and physical education.

Education support (grades K-12) including tutoring and computer training. STEM activities (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).

Career development (7-18 years), including non-traditional careers.

Family counseling

USDA Meal Program, nutrition education, gardening

Adolescent pregnancy 4-component prevention program for girls 9-18 years old.

Pathfinders Mentoring Program matches girls, ages 5-16, with professional women in the Omaha business community to work on academic and personal goals. Scholarships may be awarded at the end of the successful completion of high school and the Pathfinders program.

Transportation to programs.

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Prejob Guidance
Boys/Girls Clubs
Sexuality/Reproductive Health Education
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Youth Enrichment Programs
Mentoring Programs

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

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Literacy Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Boys/Girls Clubs
Mentoring Programs
Education support, with the goal that youth and children will graduate from high school with the expectation of pursuing learning opportunities after high school.

Employability skills, so youth will be prepared to develop the skills needed to be gainfully employed; goal is that youth will be ready to get and keep a job at completion of their time at Hope.

Faith-based programming so that youth and children will have the opportunity to hear about and grow in the knowledge of God's love.

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Recreational Facilities
Social Responsibility Programs
Extended Child Care
Tutoring Services
Mentoring Programs
Faith Based Youth Programs

After school and summer programming for youth in grades K-12 to receive homework/tutoring assistance, appropriate behavior lessons, problem solving skills, making responsible decisions, responding to conflict appropriately, and skill-building activities in a range of subjects.

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Extended Child Care
Tutoring Services
Youth Enrichment Programs

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

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Literacy Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Boys/Girls Clubs
Mentoring Programs

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

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Literacy Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Boys/Girls Clubs
Mentoring Programs
The role of a foster grandparent is to assist children in youth facilities, including helping children learn to read, tutor children in various subjects, act as role models, work in schools, pre-kindergarten programs, and other public facilities. Volunteers receive tax-free stipend, gas, vacation, and meals.
Offers affordable courses designed to provide quality training for individuals wanting to upgrade job skills, explore new careers, recertify or renew licenses, start a new hobby or develop new personal or professional skills. Also offers programs for those needing Adult literacy assistance including General Education Diploma (GED) preparation and Adult Basic Skills such as math, reading, writing, English as a Second Language, etc. Classes available in the following categories: Career Development, Computer Technology, Trades and Industry, Transportation, Licensure and Recertification, Health, and Life and Leisure Personal Interest.

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Subject Tutoring
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Mature Driver Training
English as a Second Language
Adult Basic Education
Technical/Trade Schools
General Safety Education
Computer Literacy Training Programs
New Driver Training

Provides adult tutoring in basic reading, English as a Second Language (ESL), both one-on-one and in a small group. Citizenship and ESL Conversation Groups. Free drop-in groups. Family Literacy Program for parents and their children and workplace literacy for job-specific skills.

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English as a Second Language
Adult Basic Education
Tutoring Services