JHP Community Center
JHP Community Center’s mission is to help children and youth commit to a life-long pursuit of self-development through service to one another and their communities by offering a comprehensive community and school based curriculum called the A-CLASS Learning System Series. A-CLASS is based on a instruction using martial arts as the foundation of teaching physical fitness and health, team sports activities, academics, art and life skills, technology related activities, counseling, and nutritional guidance.
Program Spotlight
Hooked On Drums™ brings the upbeat, inspiring rhythms of African djembe drumming from the Malinke people in Guinea, West Africa to kids in urban Chicago. We offer Hooked On Drums classes and youth drum performances through the Chicago Park District, local schools and community organizations. The program gets kids hooked on authentic, traditional music, allowing them to explore African heritage while sharpening their minds on a complex musical idiom with irresistible rhythms. Hooked On Drums™ is deeply committed to using African music as a vehicle for fostering creativity, curiosity, discipline, self-confidence and well-being in inner-city, at-risk youth of diverse ethnic backgrounds.
Website: www.hookedondrums.org
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University concluded that two-thirds of the achievement gap between lower- and higher-income youth results from unequal access to summer learning opportunities. (American Sociological Review, Vol. 72, April 2007)