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- Adventures Ahead
- Adventures Ahead is a neighborhood-based after-school tutoring program of Redeemer Community Partnership. The program provides tutoring, mentoring and recreational opportunities for children and families in the Exposition Park neighborhood. In partnership with the community and families, Adventures Ahead seeks to empower local children to become tomorrow's leaders. Currently, approximately 30 children in kindergarten through sixth-grade participate in regular tutoring and recreation programs. Approximately 60-75 kids participate in an expanded summer program.
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.; 15 to 24 yrs.
Contact: Richard Parks, 323-733-6173
Email: richard@usc.edu
Lauren Tigrett
- After School Sports Connection
- The ASSC is a part of the USC Family of Schools' community outreach effort. ASSC offers after-school sports instruction in basketball, flag football, martial arts, soccer, volleyball, swimming, tennis and golf to 1,800 students in third through fifth grades. ASSC instructors are USC undergraduates, graduate students and student athletes. Funded by the Amateur Athletic Foundation and USC Neighborhood Outreach.
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.
Contact: Arvina Varma, 213-740-6542
Email: uscassc@hotmail.com or recspor
- Century/Learning Initiatives For Today
- Students in grades K-12 receive homework assistance and up to 12 hours per week of reading comprehension and mathematics tutoring, technology enrichment and field trip opportunities. Students are grouped by grade level and work with the same tutor daily. Individual tutoring is available. Tutors are teachers, college students and high-achieving high school students. College/financial aid advisement and vocational education referrals are available. Parents, guardians and advocates also volunteer in the program. Free to participating students. Created in partnership with USC, Foshay Learning Center, DanBerg Development, Inc., and Century Housing Corporation.
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.; 15 to 24 yrs.
Contact: Sherry Barton, 310-412-2286 ext.13
Email: sbarton@centuryhousing.org
- Dance Included
- Dance Included seeks to enrich the University Park community by bringing dance to the USC Family of Schools. USC students volunteer their time to provide school children with quality dance education. The classes are tailored to the specific needs of each school. A wide variety of courses, types of dance and skill levels are offered, including beginning through advanced courses in ballet, tap, jazz, modern, hip-hop and flamenco. Funded in part by a USC Neighborhood Outreach grant.
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.; 15 to 24 yrs.
Contact: Alexis Kyman, 213-926-4733
Email: danceincluded@hotmail.com
- Joint Educational Project
- JEP is a service-learning program based in USC College. The program is designed to broker between academic courses and schools and service agencies in the University Park neighborhood. Each year JEP places approximately 2,000 students as mentors, mini-course instructors, translators, assistants to teachers and other helping professionals. Since 1972, students from over 65 different academic courses have attempted to understand the practical implications and applications of course-related concepts through community-service activities. Their work involves weekly reflective exercises as well as an end-of-semester paper, and is supported by classroom instructors and teaching assistants.
Contact: Tammara S. Anderson, 213-740-1837
Email: tanderso@usc.edu
- Kids In Sports
- In partnership with USC Recreational Sports, Kids In Sports expands instructional sports programs for low-income boys and girls at the Vermont Sports Club. The project serves boys and girls from the University Park and Health Sciences Campus area year-round, after school, and during weekend and summer periods. Recipient of a USC Neighborhood Outreach grant.
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.
Contact: Heidi Talbott, 213-765-1900
Email: htalbott@kidsinsports.la.org
- Literature, Arts, Culture, Education and Recreation
- LACER is an established after-school program for middle school students in Los Feliz. Keck School of Medicine of USC students join with the LaCER program at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School to teach weekly sessions on drugs and alcohol, sex and contraception, hygiene, nutrition, and development for boys and girls. A mentoring program also connects individual medical students with chosen at-risk students.
Ages Served: 5 to 14 yrs.
Contact: Todd Forman, 323-442-3070
Email: tforman@usc.edu
- MESA Mission Science Center
- This free, after-school science program for local children and youth takes the mystique out of science by offering hands-on science and technology workshops, experiments and demonstrations. Funded in part by a USC Neighborhood Outreach grant.
Ages Served: 17-May
Contact: Larry Lim, 213-740-1999
Email: llim@usc.edu
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