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Offers the following free classes to individual age 16 and older: GED/HSE preparation classes, Online GED/HSE preparation, Reading Readiness, Job Skills, Math Readiness, Healthcare, Manufacturing, ESL (English as a Second Language), and Transition skills classes. Literacy services and tutoring are available to eligible individuals.

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High School Equivalency/GED Test Sites
Citizenship Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Adult Basic Education
Tutoring Services
English as a Second Language

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

Provides free tutoring for adults seeking to improve their reading, math, or fundamental English. Tutors work with students in public locations, such as churches, libraries, and adult basic education classrooms. Students need to be enrolled in adult basic education classes to receive tutoring services. Students are provided with all books and learning materials.

Offers after-school and over the summer drop-in hours for teens. Programs help teens to learn and socialize in a safe, supervised environment. Provides teens a place to build meaningful connections with peers and caring adults, discover what their passions are, and learn valuable leadership skills.

Teen-led tutoring/mentoring, clubs, and life skills classes are on topics such as:

- Leadership.
- Career development.
- Art/ dance.
- Nutrition / healthy cooking.
- Stress management.
- Open music venues.
- Creative writing.
- Girl empowerment.
- Media.

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Youth Centers
Tutoring Services
Day Camps
General Recreational Activities/Sports
Provides adults with a variety of educational opportunities in the areas of GED preparation, English language proficiency, Adult Career Pathways, and literacy.

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Citizenship Education
Adult Basic Education
Tutoring Services
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
English as a Second Language

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.

Categories

Team Sports/Leagues
Literacy Programs
Tutoring Services
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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Team Sports/Leagues
Literacy Programs
Tutoring Services
Boys/Girls Clubs
Mentoring Programs
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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Language Therapy
Disease/Disability Information
Play Therapy
Tutoring Services

Provides adult volunteers who offer one on one tutoring support for reading, speaking and spelling problems. Free assessments provide information on specific literacy skill needs.

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Tutoring Services
Writing Instruction
Literacy Programs
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.

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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Tutoring Services
School System Advocacy
Job Search/Placement
Housing Search Assistance
Prejob Guidance
Financial Literacy Training

The online resource Brainfuse provides online tutoring and resources to those in grades K-12 with additional offerings such as GED test prep and resume feedback available to adults.

Brainfuse HelpNow makes bilingual tutors available for learners of all ages. Aside from offering live online tutoring in the areas of Language Arts, Math (including algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus), Science (including biology, chemistry, and physics), Social Studies, and Writing, Brainfuse also offers test prep in the following areas: SAT, ACT, AP, and GED.

Help with Spanish classes is available in Brainfuse's "Language Lab"
- Chat with a live tutor using a virtual classroom
- Complete assignments using a virtual whiteboard
- Share and mark up lessons and files
- Save, archive, and replay every one of your tutoring sessions

For those working on larger projects, Brainfuse HelpNow offers a "Writing Lab" where you can submit reports, papers, and resumes, and get feedback within 24 hours.

Offers a before and after school program. Services provide children individual and group tutoring, as well as mentoring services to decrease school suspensions and to address the mental health and academic needs. Children are given a snack and provided with homework assistance, life skills, and recreational activities.

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Extended Child Care
Tutoring Services
Mentoring Programs

Offers reading, Literacy, and Homework help during after school programming for K-12th grade students.

Offers reading, Literacy, and Homework help during after school programming for K-12th grade students.

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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Team Sports/Leagues
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Boys/Girls Clubs
Tutoring Services
Sexuality/Reproductive Health Education
Prejob Guidance
Mentoring Programs
Youth Enrichment Programs
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.
Offers the following free classes to individual age 16 and older: GED/HSE preparation classes, Online GED/HSE preparation, Reading Readiness, Job Skills, Math Readiness, Healthcare, Manufacturing, ESL (English as a Second Language), and Transition skills classes. Literacy services and tutoring are available to eligible individuals.

Categories

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

Categories

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

Categories

Team Sports/Leagues
Literacy Programs
Tutoring Services
Boys/Girls Clubs
Mentoring Programs
Educational enrichment programs are available year around. Computer Lab and Library on site.

Offers a family-oriented center that provides tutoring and homework help.

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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Youth Enrichment Programs
Tutoring Services
Faith Based Youth Programs

Community college.

GED preparation and testing.

ESL - English as a Second language classes.

Adult basic education, including literacy, job seeking, and life skills education.

Citizenship preparation.

Tutors available in various locations in the Panhandle.

Single parent / displaced homemaker program provides career counseling, dependent care, non-traditional training, skills training, technology training, books and tuition, personal counseling, support groups, and transportation. Contact a student services advisor for information.

Veterans Upward Bound programs offer intensive basic skills development and short-term remedial courses for military veterans to help them successfully transition to post-secondary education.

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Career Counseling
English as a Second Language
Community Colleges
High School Equivalency/GED Test Sites
Adult Basic Education
Tutoring Services
Life Skills Education
Literacy Programs
Citizenship Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction