Hope At The Brick House Inc

Summer program: a daily 6 hour summer program for 8 weeks during the summer in which children participate in a variety of educational enhancing activities that include academic instruction, guest speakers, educational field trips, life skills training, crafts and supervised recreation that includes outdoor games, swimming and water parks. Field trips include nature centers, businesses, museums, etc. Many of these activities would not otherwise be available to our students who mainly come from a low socio-economic area of central davenport. We serve 40-60 students during the summer. These students face the same types of neglect as listed above in the after school program. Since many of the students would be left unsupervised in the summer, this program provides a safe environment offering activities they would normally be unable to participate in.

Neighborhood connections:hbh helps adults resolve a variety of risk-producing needs (housing, food, employment, etc)and our fence playground area and indoor facilities are utilized frequently on a drop in" basis by neighborhood children and families. A popular feature is a weekly friday evening complete meal provided for neighborhood children, families and single adults. Purpose of this meal, which is prepared and served by volunteers is to help people to coneect and build relationships that help strengthen our community. We receive support from our neighborhood police officers who visit regularly to make safety presentations and develop friendly relationships with the children and families we serve. Hbh also hosts a monthly neighborhood meeting where police officers participate by giving reports and listening to complaints and answering questions.