LINCOLN HEIGHTS TUTORIAL PROGRAM
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Mission Statement
Since our founding, the Lincoln Heights Tutorial Program has had a vision to raise urban children and youth to become role models back into their own communities, and to assist them to go on to college. Our afterschool programs are designed to influence and change the directions of children and youth in the inner city of East Los Angeles (Lincoln Heights, Boyle Heights, El Sereno, and Chinatown districts), through tutoring, work experience training, youth leadership development, community service, and college preparation. Each of our specific programs are listed in the following summary. We currently serve over 825 Hispanic and Asian children and youth between the grades K-12th, with over 550 of the 825 being youth from the 7th -12th grades. Between our special Summer sessions and additional rotations of children at our FSC sites, we serve an additional 250 children. The total number of children and teens served during this last full year was 1,075.
About This Cause
Since our founding in 1985, we have influenced the community of Lincoln Heights over the last 28 years, helping with the reduction of crime activity, and creating positive role models of our teens. Over the last four years alone, we have seen 494 of our youth go off to various colleges and Universities. The Lincoln Heights Tutorial Program currently consists of 6 tutoring centers, 2 youth clubs, 1 community advocacy committee “Increase the Peace”, and 3 high school campus academic clubs, serving the Lincoln Heights, Boyle Heights, El Sereno, and Chinatown communities. Two youth clubs, one tutoring center, the community advocacy committee “Increase the Peace”, and three academic clubs are located in the Lincoln Heights Community. One tutoring center is located in Chinatown. Our 3rd tutoring site is located in Boyle Heights at the Hollenbeck Youth Center. Our 4th tutoring site is located near the Boyle Heights/East L. A. border, at the El Centro De Ayuda Facilities. Our 5th tutoring site is located in El Sereno, at the Barrio Action Youth & Family Center. Our 6th site is located in Plaza de la Raza. Our after-school tutorial programs serve children and youth in homework help, math, reading, writing, and computer literacy. Field trips are also a part of the tutorial programs. Our youth clubs serve to build leadership skills amongst the local high school youth, and to give them opportunities to serve their own community. In our youth clubs, we have raised and continue to raise inner city youth to staff the sites, as tutors and role models for the children that come for tutorial services and youth clubs. Our current work also involves racial reconciliation amongst Hispanic and Asian children and youth. All of the students that we serve are considered at risk, and have family incomes that places them at poverty, well below the average for the U.S. Our purpose is to aid in the transformation of urban poor communities by the development, tutoring, and training of children and youth who will become positive role models and leaders in the same urban communities, and go on to college. It is our goal to raise many children and youth from the communities that we serve, to become great role models, attend college, and to be individuals who have a heart to serve their community through service projects and other volunteering opportunities. This works to reduce the flow of children and youth from choosing into a life of gangs, violence, and drugs, in these inner-city communities, and begins a transformation process of the community. In addition, our youth are engaged in community service projects that allow them to model positive achievements instead of the usual vandalism and destructive acts of teens in these neighborhoods. All of our Programs have been designed throughout the years, to maximize the influence and experiences of children and youth in our community. Our afterschool tutoring sites provide a safe and quiet studying environment for our children and youth, with our high school youth club members, and youth club college alumni, being role models and providing the homework assistance for the next generation of children. As tutoring staff, they also receive an extensive work experience training that we’ve incorporated for them into our tutorial programs. All of our Programs have been designed throughout the years, to maximize the influence and experiences of children and youth in our community. Our afterschool tutoring sites provide a safe and quiet studying environment for our children and youth, with our high school and youth club college alumni being role models and providing the homework assistance for the next generation of children. In most inner city communities, youth are the main element of negative influence and destruction of property. Our youth clubs combine opportunities for community service, and a positive environment for teens to be encouraged to reach for higher standards for their lives than the usual inner city influence. This encouragement includes attending college. The combined events and opportunities for our youth, through our youth clubs, allows for inner city teens to influence their community in positive ways, and for them to become encouraged that they can counteract those in their community who are of negative influence. In addition, all the activities of our youth clubs help our youth with their applications to colleges and Universities, and with their scholarship opportunities. NEW SUMMER DAY PROGRAM: With the budget cuts of LAUSD resulting in no summer school classes, many families have had the void of something educational and safe for their children to attend. To help meet the needs of our families for the summer sessions, we started our first full Summer Day Program limited to the first 70 students to register. This Summer Program is from Monday - Thursday, 12:00 noon - 6:00 p.m. This time included arts & crafts, games, theme days, on hands Nutrition workshops (with a Nutritionist graduate doing the workshops), field trips, computer lab training, and the usual 4:00 -6:00 tutoring time of math, reading, science, and writing work with the tutors of LHTP. The remaining of our students that make up our 130 LHTP site students, who were not in this Summer Day Program, come for the 4:00 -6:00 p.m. tutoring time only. Our families love this program and were long since waiting for it, because ours included our usual tutoring tract of math and reading advancement for their children, that other day programs lack. This program is free for our families, and we hope to expand it to serve more students each year. Our college attending alumni come for the summer to plan, direct and oversee this program, assisted by 7-9 high school staff.