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Offers a variety of activities and classes for youths that include athletics, arts and crafts, dance classes, cultural activities, fitness, and special seasonal events.

- Tween Nights: provides an opportunity for tweens to enjoys games, sports, music and more, and to spend time with friends and make new acquaintances.

- Summer Camps: provides a variety of summer camps for youths. Summer camp themes include nature, performing arts, sports, youth variety, and Sun-Sational.

Youth services provides courses on topics including first aid for children, disaster preparedness, water safety, and babysitting for children. Also offers youth volunteer opportunities and service learning projects for middle and high school students.

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Personal Safety Education
Babysitting Instruction
Youth Enrichment Programs
Hygiene

Offers safe, supportive, and respectful environments for children, adolescents and their families, provides wellness Education, leadership development, and community education. Youth Outlook Drop-In Centers meet weekly to support each other and discuss topics of interest to the participants.

Other offerings include:

- Rainbow Sprouts, a social program for children K-6 and their parent/family/guardian.

- Youth Leadership Program: provides opportunities to help run drop-in centers, assist with volunteer training, organize special projects, participate in community education, and advise the agency board through the Youth Advisory Board.

- Transcend: a program for transgender youth, provides a forum to discuss issues such as gender identity, hormone injections, legal issues, etc.

- THRIVE: A support group for parents, foster parents, guardians, and full-time caregivers of LGBTQ+ teens.

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Youth Enrichment Programs
Leadership Development
LGBTQ2+ Community Centers
LGBTQ2+ Support Groups
LGBTQ2+ Advocacy Groups
A leadership development program that exposes teens to a wide range of educational and career opportunities that build positive self-esteem, self-respect, and social moral character.

Provides a summer camp June - August, Mon-Fri 7:30 am-6 pm. Elementary and Middle School ages ages 5-12.

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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Youth Enrichment Programs
Literacy Programs
Tutoring Services
Boys/Girls Clubs
Before and after school programs provide students a range of services including academic assistance from classroom teachers and a wide array of enrichment and recreation programs from a series of community partners in science, the arts, career awareness, character education, and more.
Provides affordable services and activities to all youth.
Provides after school programs for children K-5th grade in Dubuque and Western Dubuque.

Anti-violence and substance abuse prevention program targeting youth and their families living under conditions of social and economic poverty, as well as youth who are at risk of academic failure. The program uses a combination of performing arts and academic tutoring to meet its goals.

Promotes high self-esteem, determination, persistence, high academic achievement, community involvement, the importance of health, etc.

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Music Instruction
Youth Enrichment Programs

Offers a program designed to empower young entrepreneurs to develop entrepreneurial skills to launch their own businesses. Students receive mentorship from business professionals from the Des Moines Metro area where they obtain hands-on skills and connections to confidently pitch their business ideas at the conclusion of the program.

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Youth Enrichment Programs
Mentoring Programs
Offers community-based extracurricular programming for youth. Learning is through personalized, nature-focused projects, skill building classes, and experiences that foster relationships and critical thinking. Programs and educational classes are now offered year round.

Offers a wide variety of activities including arts and crafts, academic programs, sports, reading clubs, workshops and other recreational, leisure, cultural, social and civic activities for school-age children and youth

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Youth Enrichment Programs
Youth Centers
Offers a variety of sports and physical education, summer program and other activities for youth. Rents a room for parties and events and offers volunteer opportunities.
Offers grant-funded programming such as Kidzlit, Smart Moves/Meth Smart, and Youth Mentoring.

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Boys/Girls Clubs
Extended Child Care
Youth Enrichment Programs
Provides discussions on friendships, confidence, self-esteem, mental health and positive female body image. The small groups develop a safe place for girls to talk openly and honestly about their feelings and life experiences.
Works to assist central Iowa families and students through counseling, health care services, mentoring, sports and community projects.

Offers a one month summer recreation program for local children ages 5-11. Promotes art, music, crafts, physical activity, and access to a wide variety of programs.

Provides recreational activities for all ages. Programs include aquatics, Adventure Guide Programs, youth development, active older adult programs, and healthy living.

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Y Facilities
Swimming/Swimming Lessons
Therapeutic Exercise
Team Sports/Leagues
Youth Enrichment Programs
Opportunities for life skills building, hands-on learning, earning emblems, and character building.
Offers a variety of sports and physical education, summer program and other activities for youth. Rents a room for parties and events and offers volunteer opportunities.

Offers educational, social, cultural, and recreational opportunities for families including mentoring, community meal, and summer food program.

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Youth Enrichment Programs
Mentoring Programs
Community Meals
Summer Food Service Programs

Provides after-school programs for K-12 children at 18 schools and one community center in Vermilion County. These programs offer homework assistance, tutoring, and credit recovery. Also sponsors project-based academic enrichment activities, including STEM, literacy, entrepreneurship, arts and music, physical activity, service learning, mentoring, prevention programming, life skills development, youth leadership, college and career readiness, field trips, and more. In addition, Project Success provides students with snacks and meals.

Community-based non-profit organization committed to serving at-risk youth of all ethnic groups, to provide underprivileged youth with strategies, tools and coping mechanisms to raise self-esteem, confidence and self-worth, so they can make better choices, understand the value of education, and be contributing members of society.

Offers:

- Rites of Passage: Leadership development for youth ages 7 to 18.

- Job Readiness: Preparing youth ages 14 to 21 for jobs in retail, customer service, and manufacturing industries.

- Skills and Drills Basketball: Sportsmanship and teamwork to encourage positive social and academic engagement, for youth ages 7 to 15.

- Mentoring (In-school and Afterschool): To be the positive role model, mentor, and father figure to at-risk youth ages 7 to 18 to help them build confidence, raise self-esteem, and reach their full potential at school and in life.

- FIRE Intervention Program: Interventions for students with low academic performance, especially for students who have been suspended, arrested, defiant, and totally disconnected from the education process.

Linn County Peer Group Program is free for Linn County children enrolled in the Cedar Rapids School System. This program provides quality programming to youth with low self-esteem and inadequate social interaction skills through the use of social/recreational activities and positive peer group identification. Attendance has shown to improve communication skills, social skills, life skills and build solid friendships.