LUCY Outreach A NJ NonProfit Corporation
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Mission Statement
LUCY Outreach provides a wide array of services for Camden youth and young adults ages 7-25. At least five times each week, young people gather to engage in a variety of programs organized around one of four areas of youth development: educational, service-oriented, spiritual, and social. These programs include afterschool services, evening workshops and speakers, and weekend trips and retreats.
About This Cause
Core Services We Provide: Afterschool/Evening Programming • Afterschool Program (ages 10-16), Monday - Friday • LUCY littles (ages 7-11) for youths’ young siblings, Monday evening • College and Career Prep on Mondays & Wednesdays (ages 12-19), educational and social • Youth Night Program (ages 12-19) on Tuesdays and Thursdays • Youth Leadership Advisory Board. These programs include homework assistance, speakers, panels, social interactions, health lifestyle offerings, workshops, leadership development, life skills, clubs, and cultural and service-orientated opportunities. All trips and overnights are on the weekends and include sporting events, outdoor activities, festivals, museums, college campus visit, and the exposure of leaving the city and traveling to new cities and states. Summer Programming • 8-week summer program for teens (ages 10-19) including clubs, local service days, programs, BBQ’s, trips and overnights • 8-week camp for LUCY littles (ages 7-11) which features STEM classes, weekly trips and swimming, Girl Scouts club, art classes, sports, community panels, literacy and math, cooking and baking classes and more. • Service immersion experiences including an annual trip to the US/Mexican Border to plan and run a children’s camp and learn about immigration, and Camp Bright Feathers - a camp for children infected and affected by AIDS/HIV. Support Services LUCY meets its youth, grads, and families where they are and ensures that there is emotional, physical, as well as financial support for all in need. Our primary support-based programs include: • Haven Group, which welcomes all LGBTQIA+ youth and allies to have a safe space for programming and conversations. • Graduate Services enable us to remain an active part of our LUCY Grads’ (ages 18-25) lives, and assist through young adult milestones including college, career, parenthood and more. • LUCY Scholarship Fund, which provides quarterly scholarship opportunities for LUCY high school seniors and program graduates to continue their post-graduate higher education. The Fund currently supports deposits & fees, textbooks, dorm supplies, room & board and tuition. Emergency Family Assistance Fund provides active youth participants and their families support in times of emergent food insecurity, clothing, help with rent, utility and bill payments, transportation support, and tuition and books for first generation college students. LUCY’s participants’ demographics statistics: ● Currently, the ethnic breakdown of the youth LUCY serves is 69% Hispanic, 28% African-American and 2% Asian, and 1% White/Caucasian. Of our 500 youth involved annually, 62% are of high school age. ● In 2019, gender composition was 59% female and 41% male. ● 90% of LUCY participants live at or below the poverty line, attend underperforming schools, and have limited access to higher education and fair wage employment opportunities. ● Around 95% percent of LUCY’s College and Career Academy participants are first-generation students. ● Over 74% of LUCY’s participants are from immigrant families of 17 native countries. ● In 2018, LUCY served an estimated 50 LGBTQIA+ youth, as well as 65 in 2019. LUCY is known as an LGBTQIA+ safe space, hosting “Haven”, a support program with CMSRU. ● LUCY Outreach is located in Camden City, however, youth participants come from many different neighborhoods throughout the county. Neighboring areas in which our youth reside include Pennsauken, Gloucester City, Deptford, Maple Shade, Oaklyn, Woodlynne, Collingswood, Westville, Willingboro, Cherry Hill, Williamstown, and Merchantville. Our youth attend schools in towns such as Pennsauken, Audubon, Brooklawn, Philadelphia, Marlton, Atco, Bordentown, Haddonfield, and Lindenwold. LUCY’s Impact • Since 2008, 337/337 graduated high school 303 enrolled in college* 17 enlisted in military * 9 in trade/technical* 8 into careers* • In 2019 • 8 LUCY Programs hosted 558 opportunities for 3515 hours. 85 offsite trips & overnights (all w/ 3 fulltime & 3 part-time program staff) • 620+ volunteers supported LUCY with 3720 hours, worth $89,800 Giving Back to Camden: Five LUCY graduates are police officers in Camden, four are teachers in the Camden City School District, three are social workers, ten are nurses, and numerous others are interning and working in the city’s childcare, small business, and corporate partners. Thirteen LUCY graduates have also been hired at LUCY, as summer interns and program staff in the past 2 years. Awards • Rutgers University’s Chancellor’s Award for Civic Engagement which recognized LUCY for its extraordinary service to the youth of Camden city & consistent openness to partnerships with students, faculty, staff & alumni. • Philadelphia Business Journal’s Faces of Philanthropy Award for community partnership with American Water. • 76ers Game Changer Award (First Trust Bank); for being an organization that focuses on mentoring the next generation of leaders and innovators in our communities., specifically LGBTQIA+ youth through LUCY’s Haven program. Things that Set LUCY Apart • Open evenings, weekends and summer; staff on 24-hr call • Provides daily snack and dinner to all youth • Free daily transportation services • Free 8-week summer camp for Camden County youth, ages 7-19 • Only youth LGBTQIA program in Camden City; Camden’s “safe space” • Emergency Family Assistance Fund • College Scholarship Fund • LUCY Graduates return as volunteers, interns, and staff- 2 are current year-round program staff, giving back to the program that changed their lives • Youth Bikeshare Program • 1-acre property, preparing to break ground on dream 10,000 sq. ft. youth center across from Woodrow Wilson High School, fall 2020