New Beginnings has (5) five program sites;
1. PLEASANT CITY AFTER-SCHOOL
AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM
K-8
The After School Center is partnerships between schools, community-based organization, and community advisory councils. They provide academic, social, recreational and cultural activities assisting youth, parents, and neighbors to create support leading to optimal youth development, academic enrichment, healthy family functioning, and neighborhood capacity building and growth.
2. FAMILY CONNECTIONS AT TWIN
LAKES
The Family Connection
provides parenting support to help raise healthy children in caring homes.
(How can our center benefit families
and communities)
Four (4) Connections Point are:
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
- Access to Community-Based formal and informal support networks
HEALTHY CONNECTIONS
- Teen Pregnancy and HIV Prevention
PARENTING CONNECTIONS
CONNECTION POINTS
Our Center is:
•Family focused
•Culturally sensitive
•Strength-based and non-judgmental
•Flexible
•Easy to access
Guiding principles:
•All families are welcome.
•All parents and caregivers can benefit
from information and support.
• Early childhood development is critical
for lifelong health and success.
•Parents are recognized as their
children’s first teachers, and their
continued involvement in their
children’s education is vital.
3. JOINING HANDS AND HEART INTERGENERATIONAL
MENTORING PROGRAM
Coleman Park & Pleasant City
Is an intergenerational mentoring program working to help build youths’ sense of responsibility for themselves, their families and their community. The program features the pairing of adult mentors (ages 45 and older) with youth grades K-8.
4. GIRLS MENTORING PROGRAM
(Ages 8-18)
650 Okeechobee Blvd.
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
The Beauty for Ashes is an girls mentoring program committed to teaching, training, empowering, and mentoring young girls to reach their full potential through spiritual wisdom; emotional healing; and practical knowledge. Girls lives are transformed through our conferences, seminars, mentoring programs and small intimate fellowships. We teach them how to make practical decisions based on biblical principles and how to trade the ashes of their lives for the beauty of the love of Christ.
5. LITERACY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Coleman Park/Pleasant City
The Scholastic Read and Rise, Cozy Corner and R.E.A.L. Men Read Program is an evidence-based family-centered literacy experience. As part of this special family engagement, adult family members gain a deeper understanding of the important role they play as reading role models; they learn about the importance of books in reading and literacy development; and they participate in a hands-on, highly engaging build-a-book activity that allows families to create their own extraordinary books.
Our Partners are:
Orthodox Early Learning Child Development Center
Tiny Tots Early Learning Child Development Center
Pleasant City Elementary School
SES TUTORIAL SERVICES
