Portage Community Center Youth

06/19/2020

What is Juneteenth? How can you celebrate Juneteenth at work or at home?
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06/19/2020

What is Juneteenth?
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06/03/2020

“In 2015, before I had children, I wrote a letter to the son I might one day have. In it I wrote, ‘I hope to teach you so much of what my father taught me, but I pray that you live in a radically different world from the one that he and I have inherited.’”

When the movement for black lives began, I did not have children. Now the fight means more to me—coupled with fears that are even deeper.

06/02/2020

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05/28/2020

It’s here! Cooking Program Online! This week we’re exploring the versatile and delicious taco in several forms 🌮 🌮 🌮 Check it out in our Google Hangouts!

05/27/2020

This is why out of school time programs are essential for healthy youth development. We do this vital work all the time though our one-of-a-kind resilience focused after school and summer programs ☀️ ❤️ ☀️ Spaces are filling fast for our 2020 Summer of Resilience High School and Middle School programs. Email [email protected] for an application!

“Just as important as their formal education – perhaps even more so – are the social lessons children learn at school.

They learn to play with other children and to form and maintain relationships, as well as a host of skills including co-operating, negotiating and the art of compromise.

Through relationships with their peers, as well as with their teachers, children also learn how to regulate their emotions and develop social skills, skills that will be at least as important for their future lives as anything else they learn in the classroom.

Deprived of the opportunity to play and interact with their peers in person, young people risk losing those skills and instead of developing confidence and self-assurance are instead in danger of feeling isolated and insecure.”

The debate on reopening schools largely revolves around making up for missed lessons, but education is not the most important thing children are missing when schools are closed.

05/21/2020

New this year: High School Summer Leadership Program! Space is limited. Sign up today!

05/20/2020

Sign up for our Middle School Summer Youth Program!

05/07/2020

Cooking Program Online is up for this week! Learn about the proper ratio of oil and acid for vinaigrette to make your own unique creations 😋 Check it out on Hangouts!

05/04/2020

Hello everyone! Here’s this week’s schedule:

Parent/Guardian Support Video Chat
Mondays and Wednesdays from 1-2 pm by appointment

Youth Video Chat!
Mondays and Wednesdays from 2-3 pm

Uno Party!
Mondays and Wednesdays from 3-4 pm

Cooking! Online!
Video content uploaded Thursday at noon. You can view, post, and reply at any time!

e-mail [email protected] for instructions to join us

❤️❤️❤️ Kirk and Ian