Nest Community Learning Center

LUNCH, LEARN & PLAY Program: NEST delivers the following free programming and activities via a mobile classroom to five low income locations in Loveland & Clermont North East School Districts. Since the summer of 2017 NEST CLC has provided programming daily, Monday to Thursday, to up to 200 children. Summer activities are essential to maintain and build relationships and trust among the children and families. This program runs for eight weeks during the summer - program components include: Serving fresh fruit and a nutritionally sound lunch; Organized physical activities (e.g. kickball, flag football, games); Individualized grade level skill retention activities and games; A free library including book giveaways; Community visits including the public library, police department, fire department, and other non-profits (e.g. Girl Scouts, sports teams) and local businesses (e.g. Kona Ice).

NEST's Early Learners Program (ELP) specifically serves children three years old to five years old, the most academically vulnerable in our at-risk child population. The Early Learners Program's entire focus is early academic intervention and mastering school readiness skills. Disadvantaged children are typically two years behind their middle class peers by age five. Children who start behind usually stay behind. This program is offered two mornings a week, two hours a day, in the same neighborhoods as the After-School program. The program is one-on-one and provides high quality academic instruction with a degreed professional and assistants.