Programs

Family Learning Center

More than 32,000 students visits were made seeking after-school assistance in the Family Learning Centers last year located in each of 12 Long Beach public libraries. At Family Learning Centers children receive quality homework assistance, English literacy skills, motivation to achieve from positive role models, access to computers and supervised Internet assistance. This year we will focus on serving foster parents, relative parents and out-of-home foster youth who need a network of supportive relationships and understanding of community resource available to them for academic, vocational, health and advocacy needs. There are currently 1,234 known foster care children living in Long Beach and an additional 1,542 youth that have been placed outside Long Beach. With your assistance our goal is to reach 3,000 foster children and caregivers so that our foster children emerge from the system successfully through either a vocational or college path.