By Shondra Muhammad | Deputy Executive Director
Our after-school program kicked off in late August and enrollment has been steadily increasing. We started at 16 and now have 22 students from area schools, with 7 pending applications. Our enrollment goal is 40 students this school year. Our outreach efforts seek children and families who most benefit from a little extra attention and face higher degrees of challenges from social inequality. We’ve hired 1 new permanent group leader, bringing the total to 3, which helps us work with the children in smaller groups to provide more individualized attention.
Parent program engagement goes up and down between 70%-90% participation. We are focusing more effort on retaining parent participation because it helps boost the children’s experiences and the overall strengthening of the family unit.
Classes continue to include Robotics, Gardening, CAD/3d Printing, African Dance, Leadership, and Capoeira. Mental health professionals continue to counsel students and parents in group and individual settings.
One of our students was selected as the subject for a powerful mural on the face of a skyscraper in downtown Houston. The mural is an “ode to social equity, to breaking boundaries and to accessing new opportunities for all.” The mural is in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal to “Reduced Inequalities”.
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