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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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Hygiene
Babysitting Instruction
Youth Enrichment Programs
Personal Safety Education

VOICE is a group mentoring program offered to youth in grades 6-11. The program offers youth enrichment activities and curriculum on subjects such as personal development and leadership. Participants engage in books, games, art activities, field trips, and recreational activities. There are cohorts offered for all youth, and affinity cohorts for youth of color and LGBTQ+ youth.

An organization dedicated solely to girls in an accepting and nurturing environment, where girls can build character and skills for success in the real world. In partnership with committed adults, girls can develop qualities that will serve them all their lives--strong values, social conscience, and conviction about their own potential and self-worth.
Provides affordable services and activities to all youth.

Offers a positive youth development program which combines an interactive curriculum and running to inspire self-respect and healthy lifestyles in pre-teen girls. The core Girls on the Run curriculum addresses many aspects of girls' development like their physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being. Over a period of 10 weeks, girls participate in an after-school program. Designed to allow every girl to recognize her inner strength, the curriculum inspires girls to define their lives on their own terms. Throughout the season, the girls make new friends, build their inner confidence, and celebrate all that makes them unique.

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
Youth Enrichment Programs
Faith Based Youth Programs
Drop-in after-school program for middle and high school-aged youth. Provides a safe, supervised and nurturing environment for youth to participate in academic support, enrichment and recreational activities with a snack and an evening meal. Youth cannot be under the influence of drugs or alcohol and must demonstrate respect for others. All services are provided without cost to youth.

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Youth Enrichment Programs
Extended Child Care

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

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Summer Food Service Programs
Community Meals
Youth Enrichment Programs
Mentoring Programs
Helps the schools, parents, and community in an effort to prepare young people to become successful and productive citizens. The program focuses on the YMCA core values of Character, Honesty, Respect, and Responsibility, tied with the Six Pillars of Character Development to enhance the self confidence, motivation, and self esteem of the participants. The program is site-based and operates at different schools sites in the community. Every group at each particular site meets at different times. The program identifies at-risk youth that are potential leaders and are currently underachieving.
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.

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.

After school and summer activities include STEM programming, music, art, culinary programming, photography, academic support, career readiness support, college visits, chess, lacrosse, basketball, soccer, rock climbing, and hiking.

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Day Camps
Youth Enrichment Programs
Extended Child Care
Norwood Park and Brownell Community Learning Centers offer before and after school care and enrichment clubs as well as family nights and family support programs for families at Brownell Elementary School and Norwood Park Elementary School. Full-time summer programs open to all students in Lincoln and surrounding communities.

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Youth Enrichment Programs
Extended Child Care
Music Instruction

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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Youth Enrichment Programs
Music Instruction

Provides an after school reading, writing and math tutor program and will help with homework when needed.

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
Youth Enrichment Programs
Faith Based Youth Programs
Information and referral for a wide variety of enrichment, skills, credit, and recreational opportunities for youth in grades K-12.
Provides Latinx students with programs and support services to achieve higher education and career goals, develop leadership and civic engagement skills, and to nurture well-being through cultural identity development.
Enrichment programs provide the foundation of self-sufficiency and self-awareness to become leaders in the community. These workshops enrich youth with leadership, life and social skills enabling them to becoming valuable assets and effective leaders in society. BLA Leadership in Action 101 curriculum also enriches the lives of their families with community connections, resources and additional services. BLA's Leadership in Action 101 aims to extend academic successes through character learning that ensures the participants successfully plan, manage and implement leadership skills in a community, as well as in an academic setting.

The Teen Empowerment initiatives take youth off the streets after school and on the weekends when acts of mischief, crime, or violence can occur. Younger youth, who are eager to grow up, are especially vulnerable. Banister's Teen Empowerment projects, the Youth Advocacy Leadership Boards, The Night L.I.F.E.(Leadership in Fun Environment) and the Levels of Leadership Support provide strong role models and guidance as youth develop. Staff foster individual leadership styles to help youth understand human relations issues and to discover their role and responsibilities in the classroom, community and workplace.

Throughout their journey, youth will examine and share their personal values, traditions and beliefs while working together to create a healthy community. Youth will learn about themselves and each other to create a deeper understanding, awareness, and knowledge of how to articulate issues of difference such as, race, culture, faith, gender, age, ability, sexual orientation and class. In addition to these valuable life skills, youth also earn a renewed sense of confidence, and will be able to identify and confront the biases, prejudices, and deep-rooted issues that may emerge in their student, personal and professional lives.
Offers grant-funded programming such as Kidzlit, Smart Moves/Meth Smart, and Youth Mentoring.

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Youth Enrichment Programs
Extended Child Care
Boys/Girls Clubs
Helps the schools, parents, and community in an effort to prepare young people to become successful and productive citizens. The program focuses on the YMCA core values of Character, Honesty, Respect, and Responsibility, tied with the Six Pillars of Character Development to enhance the self confidence, motivation, and self esteem of the participants. The program is site-based and operates at different schools sites in the community. Every group at each particular site meets at different times. The program identifies at-risk youth that are potential leaders and are currently underachieving.
Provides affordable services and activities to all youth.

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
Crafts for all children.
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.

Categories

Hygiene
Babysitting Instruction
Youth Enrichment Programs
Personal Safety Education