Programs
Union Avenue Community Outreach
Union Avenue Community Outreach is a community youth outreach agency that seeks to promote and facilitate racial reconciliation and positive youth development through programs for youth from 7th grade to age 21 in Chicago's New City community. Please visit our website at www.unionave.org.
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Program Spotlight
Urban Initiatives is a nonprofit organization that runs a health and education soccer program, called the Work to Play Program, in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Urban Initiatives’ mission is to is to work with schools, teachers, and parents to boost the physical fitness, health education, academic performance, and character development of children from Chicago’s underserved communities by actively engaging them in safe and structured extracurricular activities through soccer programs. The goal is to reach students at a young age and teach them the importance of exercise and their personal health while also emphasizing the value of education. Urban Initiatives takes a holistic approach to child development in order to provide children, who have the odds stacked against them, with the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Website: www.urbaninitiatives.org
The Food Research and Action Council identifies afterschool programs as effective venues for improving nutrition, nutrition education and physical activity (Food Research and Action Council, 2006)