Art Classes: - Art Classes will be offered to adults in the day, Monday through Friday and offered to students ages 9 15 on the weekends. The art instructor will do various activities with the students, including sculptures, drawings, painting, crocheting etc; these classes are offered as an extra-curriculum class for those looking for a hobby or for those looking to enhance their cultural awareness.

Music Classes: - Music classes offer minimal knowledge of songwriting: beginning and continuing, Getting the most out of your voice , learning to read music , Piano for adult beginners String skills & ensemble for adults: beginning/elementary , West African Drumming, etc;

ROPES courses / Behavioral Science classes: - These classes are designed for at-risk youths, targeting young males ages 10 16 who need one on one and group interaction on the teaches of behavioral science. The courses will discuss such topics as Team Work, Responsibility, Respecting Ourselves, as well as others, Transitions (boys to men), etc, it will teach the young men how to deal with different aspects of life, as well as how to deal with confrontation and other areas of life that without being hostile and aggressive.

Parenting Classes and Workshops Parenting classes and workshops will be offered to all parents. These classes/workshops will discuss various topics such as Sibling Rivalry, New Parents, Feeding Infants, Child Development, Test Taking for Children, Parents Involvement in Their Childs Education, etc. These classes/workshops will be PACT (Parent and Child Together) sessions where the parent and the child together, will interact and participate in all activities. The classes will include book reading session where the class/workshop instructor will read a book to the class and after the book reading, the parents will do an activity about the book with their child and then each parent will get a book to keep and take home to read to their children. Workshops will also include Guest Speakers, Door Prizes and Referral information. We will also offer Teen Pregnancy classes at night, for teen-aged moms or teenaged moms to be.

Parent Home Visitation Program (Home Visits): The Case Manager will recruit and target families with children Birth to Five. After the families have been identified, the case manager will go in the home and work with the parent on areas of early childhood parent education and offer referrals for family support. This program will serve families throughout pregnancy until their child enters kindergarten. The program is designed to enhance child development and school achievement through parent education accessible to all families. The materials used will be from the Parents As Teachers workshop trainings. The training prepares the case manager to be a parent educator, and will train the case manager to do:

Personal Visits - sharing age-appropriate child development information with parents, help them learn to observe their own child, addressing their parenting concerns, and engaging the family in activities that provide meaningful parent/child interaction.

Group Parent Meetings - group meetings provide opportunities to share information about parenting issues and child development. Parents learn from and support each other, observe their children with other children and practice parenting skills. Screenings Periodic developmental, health, vision and hearing screening provides for early identification of developmental delays and health, vision and hearing problems. Regular review of each child's developmental progress identifies strengths and abilities as well as areas of concern that require referral for follow-up services, and increases parents' understanding of their child's development.

Referral Services - Parent Educators will refer parents to resource network agencies by helping families identify and connect with needed resources and overcome barriers to accessing services. Programs take an active role in establishing ongoing collaborative relationships with other organizations that serve families.

Lending Library: The lending library will be a lending facility for parents to come and check out books and other materials to take home to use with their children. The materials will be on loan to families for a week and will have to be returned after that time. All materials will be on a computerized coding system that will allow us to track and keep inventory on the materials. The facility will only be open to check items out, there will not be an area to sit and lounge. Staff will be available in the lending library from 9 to 7 pm.

After-School Program - The after-school program will either be a collaboration with the local school district, or we will offer it. The children attending will be children from the nearby schools and if we are not working in accordance with the school district, they will be children, who for some reason, are not enrolled in their schools after school program. The children will be bussed from their schools to the center, and again, if we cannot work out an arrangement for the children to be dropped off by the school buses from the nearby schools, we will provide transportation to the facility ONLY. Parents will be responsible for making arrangements to pick up their own children. The after school program will began at 3:00 pm and end at 6:30 pm. It will consist of the following schedule :

Homework Session - 3:00 to 4:15 (if the children do not have homework or if they have finished their work before getting to the center, age appropriate material will be supplied)

Snack - 4:20 to 4:35 pm

Clean Up / Pack Up Time - 4:40 4:30, the students will clean up their area and pack their book-bags and belongings

Sports and Recreation - 4:35 5:50 (the coach will offer outside activities and for those who wish to stay inside, they will have the option of playing board games or drawing,

Movie / Wind Down Time - 5:55 6:30 the students will come in and watch a movie until their parents come to pick them up.

* Other activities offered: Holiday workshops including hands on activities, field trips and other activities to enhance the childrens group participation.

Community and Participant Activities:

Family Night - One night a month will be family night, we will have games and other activities for parents and their families to come and participate in.

Grandparents Week - September is Grandparents month and will celebrate it by doing a variety of activities for grandparents.

Spirit Week - This will be a week of spirit when the staff and participants will have the choice to participate in a variety of spirit activities for example, for Team day, the will wear their favorite team wear, etc; A rally will be held on the last day of the week.

Youth Week - This will be in the summer, the youths that are a part of the center will participate in a week of field trips, the last day of the week will be FUN DAY, where everyone, the staff, participants and family members will come out and enjoy a day of fun with games and other activities.

Summer Camp - A group of students will go on a trip to a campground for a week of summer camp.

Step Team - This course will teach children about the heritage of African American Sororities and Fraternities. The children will learn how to rhythmically step to music. This is an extra-curriculum activity.