BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST. JOSEPH COUNTY
For the last four decades, Boys & Girls Clubs of St. Joseph County has provided more than 20,000 at-risk children and teens from families in St. Joseph County with a safe place to experience life-enhancing programs that offer academic enrichment, health, and fitness, character development, hope, and opportunity. With four school-based sites and the free-standing O.C. Carmichael, Jr. Youth Center, the Club serves children from dozens of local schools, including public, private, parochial, charter as well as home-schooled children. Resulting from 21st Century Community Learning Center funding, the school year will result in a more structured, academically-based program enrolling fewer children but providing more in-depth intervention along specific disciplines, primarily Language Arts and STEM.
CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS
The Center for the Homeless is a residential facility, housing roughly 200 homeless men, women, and children. More than a shelter, it is a center which enables people to climb out of poverty and involves extensive programming, from counseling and therapy to addiction treatment to classes in goal setting, self-awareness, job training, budgeting, and home management. Guests can earn their GEDs, obtain externships in the community, and contribute to the daily operation of our facility. By offering the best resources in our community to the people who need them the most, we provide our guests with the hope and the tools they need to break the cycle of homelessness and do miraculous things with their lives.
CITY OF SOUTH BEND
CLAY HIGH SCHOOL
Clay High School has a long history of excellence in academics, athletics, and the arts. The magnet program advances Clay’s ability to provide a world of outstanding opportunities, training, and experiences for talented, committed students who have a serious interest in the arts. Our visual and performing arts program works in tandem with the academic program and promotes stronger math skills and enhanced reading ability. Students can then take advantage of our strong AP offerings and numerous dual credit opportunities in core content areas. Clay has more College Board approved and audited AP courses and academic dual credit courses than any other SBCSC school.
IMANI UNIDAD
The primary purpose of Imani Unidad is to provide HIV/STD and substance abuse prevention, education and advocacy through community efforts. We include HIV positive and African American community members in decision making, education, advocacy, service delivery, public relations, research, and leadership. Imani Unidad provides community representatives to facilitate workable solutions through community partnerships; Teen Peer Education which offers comprehensive skills building activities and prevention information for youth to serve as a resource for one another, and engage in other activities that promote the overall goals of the organization.
OPTUM
St. JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM
Outreach Services invites you to share your talents, your time and your concerns for our community. We commit to assuring every volunteer a thorough orientation, a voice in the development of new programs, and an opportunity to contribute to the mission of SJHS.