Let's celebrate the magic that has lasted for 46 years and all the beautiful ways we support the youth in our community. By fostering connections and spreading happiness, we can dance the night away with our loved ones, friends, and the ConnectiKids team, all while raising awareness for the importance of educational equity, mentoring, healthy food, and safe after-school options for children. Together, we can create a garden of opportunity for our children by sowing the seeds of specialized mentoring, exposing them to new people and possibilities, offering caring individuals to support them, engaging enrichment options, providing them with dinner, and educating them on health and nutrition.

If you are ready to participate in this celebration, grab your tickets, donate, invite someone, and let us turn up the music! We appreciate your commitment to providing an Enchanted Garden of opportunities to ConnectiKids youth and everyone we support. To all ConnectiKids allies, you are indeed one in a million!

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We focus on Educating, Enriching, and Empowering Children

Mission

ConnectiKids connects students facing systemic inequities and other barriers with people, places, and experiences that level the playing field and inspire academic achievement, positive life choices, and big dreams.

We fulfill this youth-empowering, equity-advancing mission in partnership with schools, families, and the community. We provide one-on-one academic tutoring, individualized mentoring, arts and enrichment programs, and community-based learning experiences during the academic year and summer. These connections and opportunities motivate historically underserved kids to embrace high expectations, overcome adversity, and reach their full potential.

Tutoring and Mentoring Program

ConnectiKids provides students with one-on-one tutoring and mentoring. The core focus is to provide students with equitable academic support through individualized tutoring, which will, in turn, support classroom learning. ConnectiKids Tutoring and Mentoring Program's primary objectives:

Have children develop a meaningful relationship with a caring tutor/mentor. This relationship allows for the following: A) enhancement of classroom learning, which leads to improved grades and attitude in school; B) promotes a lifelong love of learning; and C) improved future orientation.
Develop student comprehension of educational materials and concepts (literacy, reading comprehension, math/problem-solving), all foundations for long-term academic success.
Improve study skills and attitudes towards academics.
To enhance problem-solving, improve communication skills, and engender increased self-esteem.
Foster self-confidence, self-exploration, and self-sufficiency
Exposure to new people, places, and opportunities.
Exposure to reading, developing vocabulary, exposure to various book genres, and strengthening fluency.

Arts and Enrichment Program

The enrichment program is a short series that runs on a cyclical schedule throughout the school year. Children participate in various activities based on grade and grouping. These experiences help students grow socially, define their identity, and understand their strengths, interests, and goals, which typically contribute to increased school performance. All offerings aim to provide students with life skills, enhance problem-solving and communication skills, and build self-esteem. Our model incorporates school-based concepts and themes within the arts and helps students express themselves, define their identity, and understand their strengths, interests, and goals.

Summer Program

The ConnectiKids summer program is designed to offer children a comprehensive educational and fun-filled experience during the summer season, centered around a thematic curriculum. The program is divided into two parts, with the morning session comprising book clubs and interactive group activities. The afternoon session, on the other hand, includes outdoor excursions, pool activities, and park visits, allowing students to explore and enjoy the outdoors.

ConnectiKids is about more than just after-school and summer programs. It offers much more than that! The organization supports the overall development of a child, including their families. ConnectiKids works in partnership with various community organizations to cater to student needs outside its scope of services, such as mental health counseling, housing, food insecurity, and other structural inequities that require collective efforts to address. ConnectiKids arranges various field trips that parents can participate in, allowing them to learn and have fun experiences with their children. Additionally, it collaborates with organizations to offer parent workshops, family events, and community-wide opportunities for learning and growth, which ultimately positively impact the students it serves.

In addition, we offer Counselors in Training (CIT) Programming for youth between the ages of 14 and 18, which allows them to learn professional development and leadership skills, explore college and career opportunities, and hear from professionals in their field of interest, which all support their future goals.

ConnectiKids
EIN: 06-1035985 (501c3)
*All funds raised will be used to support ConnectiKids Youth Development Programs*

Enchanted Garden Adult Prom

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