Healthy Returns Partner Agencies
Alliance For Concerned Men
Alliance For Concerned Men provides interventions to at-risk and in-crisis youth, and helps clients develop positive life skills through one-on-one counseling, group sessions and community outreach. The organization’s services include self-esteem development, communication skills, conflict resolution, job-training skills, alcohol and drug prevention and treatment as well as HIV/AIDS and STD prevention training. DC Central Kitchen sends Alliance for Concerned Men 200 meals each week.
Angel Youth Outreach Ministries
Angel Youth Outreach Ministries trains young students to minister to their peers. Change is generated in the lives of participating youth through the intentional development of their spiritual, physical and financial lives. The organization provides resources in such areas as prevention, crisis intervention, and social services, to help clients improve the quality of their lives. DC Central Kitchen sends Angel Youth Outreach Ministries 40 meals each week.
www.angelyouthoutreachministry.com/
City Lights Public Charter School
City Lights Public Charter School provides emotionally disturbed students with a supportive school environment. City Lights creates a therapeutic setting that enhances students’ ability to prepare for life both academically and socially following their graduation. After-school programming offers tutoring, mentoring and counseling by licensed social workers. DC Central Kitchen sends City Lights Public Charter School 100 snacks each week.
Coalition for Economic Empowerment
Coalition for Economic Empowerment provides training and workshops that allow teens to recognize how the perceptions of themselves and the world can be a barrier from achieving their potential. After-school programs allow teens to build self-awareness, examine their values and acquire enhanced integrity. DC Central Kitchen sends Coalition for Economic Empowerment 150 meals each week.
www.coalitionforeconomicempowerment.org
Community of Hope Apartments
Community of Hope Apartments provides housing while families work on creating better lives for themselves. Comprehensive social services, including education and employment training, allow families to build the tools required to escape poverty and homelessness. Each family is given its own private apartment family members can live together, cook their own meals and work towards improving their lives. Families also participate in weekly life-skills classes. DC Central Kitchen sends Community of Hope Apartments 100 meals and 100 snacks each week.
Community of Hope Education Enrichment
Community of Hope Education Enrichment uses interactive and engaging programming to foster successful school performance to children living in a transitional environment. The organization helps children improve math and reading skills, discover self-esteem and master basic social and life skills. DC Central Kitchen provides Community of Hope Education with nutrition education in addition to 125 snacks and 100 meals each week.
Community of Hope Health Services
Community of Hope Health Services provides primary care, outreach, and health-education services through approximately 400 primary medical care visits per month. Pediatric clients comprise approximately one fourth of the clients. DC Central Kitchen sends Community of Hope Health Services 130 snacks each week.
Community Preservation and Development Corporations at Edgewood Terrace
Community Preservation and Development Corporations at Edgewood Terrace provides nightly youth development workshops. Sessions are project-based educational enrichment activities that include learning new applications with technology, career exploration, leadership development, and personal growth seminars. DC Central Kitchen sends CPDC 100 snacks each week.
Facilitating Leadership in Youth
Facilitating Leadership in Youth offers students one-on-one tutoring sessions. Skill development focuses on homework completion, study skills, time management, SAT prep, and writing and math skills. Tutors receive ongoing training regarding youth development, learning styles, and positive discipline to ensure that students receive high quality mentorship. DC Central Kitchen sends FLY 60 meals and 125 snacks each week.
Greater Washington Field of Dreams Jubilee Housing
Greater Washington Field of Dreams Jubilee Housing builds a supportive, safe community that empowers children and youth to develop to their full potential. Youth programming includes weekly mentoring, arts and crafts, geography lessons, leadership training, and homework assistance. DC Central Kitchen sends Jubilee Housing 100 snacks each week.
Lincoln Westmoreland Community Center
Lincoln Westmoreland Community Center provides an after-school setting for children offering tutoring, computer classes, reading development, mentoring, cooking classes and arts and crafts. DC Central Kitchen provides Lincoln Westmoreland with 60 meals and 200 snacks each week as well as nutrition education.
Metro Teen AIDS
Metro Teen AIDS provides a safe space for young people to come and spend time with their peers while developing skills and participating in educational activities that help them protect themselves and their peers from HIV. The organization also works with DC Public Charter Schools to provide trainings on sexual health. DC Central Kitchen provides Metro Teen AIDS with nutrition education in addition to 100 snacks each week.
MOMIES's TLC
MOMIES's TLC provides a safe and structured after-school learning environment. Children learn positive life skills through daily meditation and self-reflection exercises, and participate in structured recreational activities like sports, dance, and arts and crafts. MOMIES provides a unique curriculum that supports black history, education and culture. DC Central Kitchen provides MOMIE’s TLC with nutrition education in addition to 200 snacks each week.
My Sister's Place
My Sister's Place provides shelter to children living in homes with domestic abuse. My Sister’s Place combines recreational and educational activities that allow children to express themselves. Children are given individual attention, patience and love, which helps them develop self- respect, confidence and new peaceful ways of relating with their family and peers. DC Central Kitchen sends My Sister’s Place 75 meals and 30 snacks each week.
National Organization of Concerned Black Men
National Organization of Concerned Black Men pairs positive, male role models with at-risk male students. The youth-development curriculum incorporates workshops and field trips to promote healthy self-esteem, cultural awareness, physical fitness, and entrepreneurship. DC Central Kitchen provides the National Organization of Concerned Black Men with nutrition education in addition to 30 meals each week
Pediatric AIDS/HIV Care
Pediatric AIDS/HIV Care focuses on supporting children orphaned or affected by HIV/AIDS. Therapy focuses on reducing anxiety, building trust, cultivating self-esteem, and finding alternatives to risky behavior. Children also receive homework help and educational enrichment, and have access to a safe space for relaxation. DC Central Kitchen sends Pediatric AIDS/HIV Care 40 meals and 40 snacks each week.
Perry School: Center City Community Corporation
Perry School: Center City Community Corporation facilitates the cultivation of youth within the community into well-trained individuals through cultural exposure, physical education and athletics activities, drug and crime prevention, personal-hygiene help, and a summer job placement program. DC Central Kitchen sends Perry School 125 snacks each week.
Project Northstar
Project Northstar helps children who are homeless or disadvantaged overcome the barriers to quality education. Project Northstar provides one-on-one tutoring and mentoring in five different locations in DC. Children are matched with their own adult tutor and mentor, as well as a case manager who tracks their academic progress and meets regularly with parents and teachers to identify the areas of learning needing the most attention. DC Central Kitchen sends Project Northstar 120 meals each week.
Sitar Center for the Arts
Sitar Center for the Arts believes that arts education coupled with high expectations can positively change the direction of young people’s lives, particularly those from inner-city communities. Sitar Center offers affordable after-school, weekend and summer classes in visual art, music, drama, dance, creative writing, and digital arts to young children in the area. Partnerships with leading arts organizations in addition to a network of more than 100 local artists and community volunteers provide first-rate teachers and programs. DC Central Kitchen sends Sitar Center for the Arts 220 snacks each week.
The Children’s Hospital
The Children’s Hospital provides adolescents with a comprehensive life skills training program focusing on the development of positive self-esteem and the reduction of risky behaviors. Participants take workshops on such topics as healthy relationships, sexual health, nutrition and career exploration. DC Central Kitchen sends The Children’s Hospital 115 snacks each week.
The Family Place
The Family Place provides resources and support services to expectant parents and families with young children in a community drop-in setting. Children participate in child-care while parents can focus on learning the skills associated with successful parenting. DC Central Kitchen sends The Family Place 150 meals each week.
Young Ladies of Tomorrow
Young Ladies of Tomorrow targets girls’ issues, such as emotional and physical abuse, intimacy with street life, teen pregnancy, addiction, or low self-esteem. Young Ladies of Tomorrow focuses on discovering relevant and creative solutions to the complicated circumstances in which clients find themselves. The organization believes that when girls recognize the depth of their potential and govern themselves accordingly, they will become productive self-sufficient citizens and contribute to the enhancement of the community at large. DC Central Kitchen provides Young Ladies of Tomorrow with nutrition education as well as 90 meals each week.
Youth Net
Youth Net provides homework help, math and reading instruction, and tutoring to students. Youth Net also provides leadership-development training that includes workshops and training in college preparation, job preparation, and financial and business development. DC Central Kitchen provides Youth Net with nutrition education as well as 75 snacks each week.
