LITERACY:
Read to Me (3-6 year olds) – Read to Me pairs children with an adult volunteer, who both trains the child on phonics, helps to build comprehension skills and reads with them. It is our goal to help children enter first grade with the skills necessary for subsequent educational success.
PREP (3-6 year olds) – This program stresses the importance of parental involvement in their child’s education. Following the CYP-developed Path to Reading curriculum, parents systematically and effectively teach their children to read, while gaining positive parenting skills and building their own self-esteem.
TUTORING:
SCORE Tutoring I, II, and III (1st-6th grade) & Teen Tutoring (7th – 9th grade) – SCORE Tutoring provides one-on-one assistance to youth, focusing on establishing healthy, trustworthy relationships between tutors and tutees and empowering tutors to identify and teach concepts critical to their student’s long-term outcome not fully mastered in the classroom, through Concept Packages, developed by CYP in collaboration with Chicago public school teachers.
MENTORING:
Sister to Sister (7th-9th grade) – This is a mentoring program that teaches life skills to teenage girls from the Washington Park and Uptown communities while exposing them to the world. They are paired with adult mentors that provide guidance, prepare lessons and take them on educational and recreational field trips.
Boys to Men (7th-9th grade) – This is a mentoring program that teaches life skills to teenage boys while exposing them to the world. They are paired with adult mentors that provide guidance, prepare lessons and take them on educational and recreational field trips.
Saturday Dreams (PreK - 9th Grade) – Saturday Dreams provides a “window to the world” for children aged three through 15. Children are divided into groups based on sex and age and engage in various appropriate recreational activities such as field trips, sports, arts & crafts, and games.
AFTER SCHOOL:
"PASS It On" Program (PreK - College) - "PASS It On" provides youth with daily structured after-school programming for the Washington Park community. PASS It On participants rotate through a balanced schedule of activities including: library session/book clubs; computer lab/tutoring; health/nutrition and physical education activities (aimed at combating childhood obesity). The most unique aspect of the program is the Peer-to-Peer mentoring model it follows. CYP employs our college and late high school students as the staff, providing a valuable wage-earning/leadership opportunity as they pass on their survival skills and valuable preventive health lessons to younger community youth as mentors.
PRIMARY & PREVENTIVE HEALTH PROGRAMS:
Washington Park Children’s Free Clinic – Volunteers from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine staff the clinic which provides primary and preventive care services including immunizations, school/camp physicals and health screenings to our south-side families. The clinic offers door-to-door van transportation and welcomes both walk-ins and appointments.
RECREATION:
WPYP youth, who regularly attend our educational programs, enjoy a wide array of positive recreational activities. Programs include soccer, golf, book clubs, arts/crafts, camps, skating, bowling, movies, museums and variety of other outings and experiences.
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