Links to Friendly Sites

The following are worthy of your perusal.

Challengers Boys and Girls Club
The mission of Challengers Boys & Girls Club is to promote the optimum social development of youth ages 6 to 17 by providing a safe place for them to learn and grow.

City Scholars Foundation
Since 1998, staff and volunteer representatives from the many non-profit, after-school programs, including the Wooten Center have participated, tuition-free, with their annual Leadership Training Academy for Non-Profit, After-School Program Leaders.

California Literacy:
California Literacy, founded in 1956 is the nation's oldest and largest statewide adult volunteer literacy organization. Its purpose is to establish literacy programs and to support them through tutor training, consulting, and ongoing education.

 Street Soldiers
Well known San Francisco area center. The Omega Boys Club/Street Soldiers mission is to keep people alive and unharmed by violence and free from incarceration. They provide youth with opportunity and support to build positive lives for themselves, and move into contributing roles in society.

Girls After School Academy (GASA):
Offers a variety of development activities for San Francisco girls ages 8 to 18.

Huckleberry House:
Helping at-risk youth in the San Francisco Bay Area make changes in their lives and develop self-worth.

Girls Incorporated:
Offers many programs nationwide and in California to challenge girls (ages 6 to 18) phyically, intellectually, and emotionally.

Barrios Unidos:
An organization in Santa Cruz, CA focusing on violence prevention and providing youth with an alternative to gangs.

Teen Challenge:
It is the mission of Teen Challenge to provide youth, adults and children an effective and comprehensive faith-based solution to drug and alcohol addiction as well as other life-controlling problems.

We Teach Free
This website was created by Mr. Cleophas McAlpin and is maintained by Mr. McAlpin and his students. "A Free Tutoring Service" was begun in 1998 and has assisted over 350 Middle and High School students with their classes, taught them vocational skills, mentored them and indeed prepared them for the future

Youth I.N.C. (Improving Non-profits for Children:
Youth, I.N.C. has a simple mission: to improve non-profit organizations serving young people.

 

The Piney Woods School is the largest of four historically black boarding schools,  At one time there were at least 83 such schools, but in the 1950's and early 60's most of these were closed since access to public schools became officially open to black students

Antelope Valley Indian Museum - A good cross-cultural site