Sharing Resources Week 6

Upon opening up the website Harlem Children's zone I scrolled to the very bottom of the page.There I found a caption titled documents and publications. In the documents and and publications I found biennial reports, annual highlights of achievements, papers and reports, financial reports and poems written by the founder of Harlem Children's Zone Geoffrey Canada.

The area that I searched was the titles mentioned above. The biennial report comes out every two years.  The title of the 2012-2013 was speaking concerning disrupting the cycle of poverty by helping children overcome a staggering array of issues. The article was stating that children in poor communities face many hurdles to their education. They have inadequate schools, violence at home and in the streets. Not sufficient health care, chaotic home lives, disengaged parents, homelessness, meager cultural and recreational opportunities. 

Another issue we have been studying is school readiness for our children entering kindergarten. This article is titled Supporting the Entire Child - and an entire community of children. This article states that in 2012 all of the children that attended the Pre K Gems program tested school ready. They take a holistic view of each child they are servicing.

This program is fighting with all they have to have equity for their children. They do have many grants that they are waiting for responses from. This site did show me how they are having great success with the children that goes through their program. They have 92% of their high school graduates attend college.

The document Focusing on Results in Promise Neighborhood is a discussion paper trying to receive grants money from the federal initiative  to help support what is taking place in the 97 neighborhoods of Harlem Children's Zone. The document was authored by the HARLEM Children's Zone, Policylink, and the Center for the Study of Social Policy, with contributions from Child Trends.

Once again this websites tell us how they take a holistic view of the child. They work with all children from babies to college students. They teach them to play chess. They watch the streets so the children can get home safely. They have many security people on the streets of the 97 blocks of Harlem to make sure children are safe until they get home.