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- EIN 37-0923003
- (618) 713-9010
- 441 E Willow Carbondale IL 62901-1659 USA
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Development Programs
Mission: Provide educational, recreational activities designed to address the social determinants of health that place youth and families at risk of violence, gaps in educational achievement and delinquency. Organize communities to become empowered to become more accountable for developing direct services and advocacy to their neighborhoods. Provide health, wellness and nutritional to families and especially children through the usda summer food program and cacfp at risk after school programs. Through the use of community resource centers increase the use of agencies and their resources by providing neighborhood access to those services.
Programs: Provide educational, recreational activities designed to reduce the factors that place children and families at risk. Provide community organization to empower communities to become more accountable for developing delivery of direct services to combat violence and delinquent behavior.
we are a sponsor for the summer food program and a summer day camp that served 75 children daily providing educational, recreational and enrichment activities. Our summer food program operated 8 different sites; 3 within public housing, 2 community centers, boys and girls club and several special events. We served over 7073 lunches (avg 162 daily), 2950 breakfasts and 5151 snacks. We were also sponsored the cacfp program for at risk youth that included educational and enrichment activities for 75 youth and operated 5 serving sites providing 21,800 suppers and 5,593 snacks during the 9 months of operation. The program is funded by the number of meals served.