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Offers tutoring for students in need. Students are selected based on grades and discussions with teachers and parents.

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

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

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.

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

Strives to assist adults 17 years of age or older in acquiring knowledge and skills necessary to earn a GED, to improve English language skills, and to transition to higher educational or vocational training. Services offered:

- Adult Basic Educational Services.

- Citizenship Services.

- English as a Second Language (ESL) Services.

- GED Services.

- Project VITAL (Adult Literacy Services).

- Workforce Services.

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

Provides after-school and summer programs. Youth receive academic support, mentoring and life skills education, and opportunities to engage in positive recreational activities and service learning projects.

Also provides Youth Intervention Services: Individualized care plan created for youth identified to require more one on one support to address social-emotional concerns.

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Tutoring Services
Youth Enrichment Programs
Identifies disadvantaged youth in grades 6-12 who have potential for post-secondary education, and encourages them to graduate from secondary schools and enroll in post-secondary education.

Services may include after school and tutorial homework assistance, career exploration activities, providing and assisting in completion of the ACT, college campus tours, and academic advising.

Staff encourages high school dropouts to return to school.

Participating schools:
Middle Schools: Culler, Dawes, Lefler, Mickle, Park
High Schools: Northeast, Northstar, Lincoln High

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Tutoring Services
College/University Entrance Examination Preparation
Student Career Counseling
College/University Entrance Support
Dropout 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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Youth Enrichment Programs
Tutoring Services
Faith Based Youth 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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Youth Enrichment Programs
Tutoring Services
Faith Based Youth Programs
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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Tutoring Services
Higher Education Bridge Programs
Instructional Support Services
Study Skills Assistance
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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Tutoring Services
Higher Education Bridge Programs
Instructional Support Services
Study Skills Assistance
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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Mentoring Programs
Tutoring Services
Social Responsibility Programs
Recreational Facilities
Faith Based Youth Programs
Extended Child Care

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

Provides programs and training for youth, including:

- Life skills training

- Peer mentorship

- Career readiness

- Tutoring and after school programs

- Dance and step programs

- Sports camp

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Tutoring Services
Youth Enrichment Programs
Life Skills Education
Student Career Counseling
Mentoring Programs

Offers a program focusing on developing literacy skills, social/emotional learning, and the important academic and life transitions middle school students experience as they transition to high school. Designed for middle school students ages 13-16. Also creates opportunities for parent and student engagement.

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Boys/Girls Clubs
Literacy Programs
Youth Enrichment Programs
Tutoring Services

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

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.
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

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

Provide life-long learning opportunities by partnering with schools, families and neighborhood residents to promote youth development and stronger communities through before and after school programs, Community Learning Centers and youth summer programs.

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Tutoring Services
Extended Child Care
Youth Enrichment Programs
Early Childhood Education

Provides 24 hour online tutoring and homework help in more than 200 subjects for military personnel and their families. Learners can get help from a tutor at anytime, on any internet-connected device.

Provides an educationally based after-school/out-of-school programs for students grades K-12 focused on increasing math and reading proficiency, increasing school attendance, as well as decreasing suspensions (in and out of school) and system involvement. This is accomplished through literacy/reading and math classes, individualized homework assistance, career exploration and planning, plus one-to-one and group tutoring sessions. Students are provided instruction by certified teachers, as well as enrichment activities and other social and emotional supports by academic intervention specialists.

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Extended Child Care
Literacy Programs
Youth Enrichment Programs
Tutoring Services
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
Play Therapy
Tutoring Services
Disease/Disability Information
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.