"Building a healthy, caring and prosperous community"
Children
Our belief is that each child is gifted and has the potential for success. With that belief, we offer afterschool and summer programs for area children as well as support for parents and caregivers through our Family Wellness Nights. Our children are our neighborhoods greatest resource--the future of the community. Consistent with that belief, we invest in our children by offering tutoring, educational enrichment and other supports. Results show that this works! For the last three years, our children attending our afterschool program have performed better on standardized tests that children in a comparison group.
Through the Miracle Makers program afterschool service include academic tutoring, character development and prevention programs. Staff use a "love and logic" approach to working with the children, helping each child with their unique needs. The program is open between 3:00 and 5:30 p.m. during the school year. The children are in kindergarten through fifth grade at East End Community School. Next year the program will expand to sixth grade students.
During the summer months, children are at risk for losing some of the learning material that they acquired during the prior year. Our summer camps offer exciting "hands on" activities that teach new skills and reinforce past learning. Each week has a theme and the children enjoy a wide range of field trips and other educational opportunities.
New Opportunities
East End Community Services is the institutional partner for the new school that will be built on McClure Street and Xenia Avenue by Dayton Public Schools. The partnership with the school is part of a comprehensive effort to create a community that nurtures each child and family. Within this vision, we see the neighborhood school as being the center of a vibrant community that includes improved housing, a thriving business district educational and employment programs for youth and adults. Our focus is a sustainable community that blends best practices in green housing and neighborhood design with state of the art techniques for promoting cultural bridging.
The following image shows the proposed sketch of the new school. In the new future, we will be posting the strategic vision as we listen to and work with the residents of Twin Towers and surrounding neighborhoods.
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Mentor Youth!
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East End Community Services 624 Xenia Avenue Dayton, OH 45410 Phone 937-259-1898 FAX: 937-259-1897 Email: ajomantas@east-end.org