House Cafe Inc

We have provided multiple students with college scholarships and have assisted in the college application process. Many of our students do not have the support structure at home, and lack the confidence to fill out these forms or applications on their own. Our organization has assisted students in planning future education goals and implementing those goals into action steps. We also fund student interships, after school activities, and we have, and continue to, fund recreational activities on the weekends. These events take the teens off the streets on the weekend and give them a healthy environment with video games, board games, billiards and more. Dinner, snacks, and events are provided free of charge to all students in our community. It is our aim to provide opportunities to reach and support as many students in our community as we can, including those of different ages, cultures, and backgrounds. In this effort and according to our mission, we have expanded to reach children ages 30 months to 6 years old through the building of the early learning center. Children who grow up in homes of poverty hear roughly 30 million less words than children growing up in college educated homes. We have seen that the generational cycle of poverty begins in the early development years. This year we opened an income based childcare center, emphasizing low income families from ogden, ks. We offer affordable childcare (roughly 10% of monthly income) and focus on social, emotional, and academic development, in order to equip low income students to begin pre-k at the same starting position as their peers. Often times low income students are beginning kindergarten behind their peers in these areas, and our childcare center has built a curriculum specific to the behaviors and developmental challenges we have seen in low income students from ogden, ks. We offer parenting classes and volunteer opportunities for additional discounted childcare rates, so that we can help parents consider alternative perspectives to parenting, discipline, and finances.