Northwestern University Settlement

Early childhood education - offers full-day preschool programming to 64 children ages 2-5 years old from low-income families, as well as supportive parenting services. Our site is accredited by the national association for the education of young children (naeyc), and carries an excelerate illinois gold circle of quality rating.

House in the wood camp - northwestern settlement's year-round residential camp in delavan, wi for inner-city chicago youth. Each year, house in the wood serves over 400 children ages 7-17 during its summer camp session. In the spring and fall, house in the wood hosts stem education residencies at its outdoor education center for public school students. Between these programs and the camp's use as a retreat center, 1,500 youth benefit from house in the wood annually. House in the wood is accredited by the american camp association (aca) and received the inaugural aca-illinois gordie kaplan program excellence award in 2015, as well as the aca's national 2016 eleanor p. Eells award for program excellence.

After school program - guide and enrich the lives of 200 rowe scholars ages 5-12 after school during the school year and all day during the summer. Summer activities are designed to lessen the impact of the "summer slide" in between school years.

Food pantry and support services - provides basic human needs assistance to over 4,200 individuals in critical need. Components include a food pantry, direct assistance (clothing, household supplies, and baby needs), counseling and referrals, and holiday assistance. Collaborate with americcorps project yes to implement the golden agers senior citizens club and support group.

Family cares center - a partnership with children's home + aid, provides on-site counseling and other family wellness services for families with children in the settlement's preschool and rowe elementary charter school. This program began in june 2017, and now serves 95 youth.

Adventure stage chicago - northwestern settlement's theatre for young audiences, creates and tells heroic stories at its 299-seat vittum theater. Asc is the midwest's only theater devoted exclusively to middle school audiences. Programming includes mainstage productions for cps groups and community audiences, neighborhood bridges in-school drama and critical literacy residencies, community engagement and use of facilities, and the trailblazers teen performance and mentorship ensemble. Approximately 10,000 community members view an asc production each year and 20,000 more utilize the vittum theater.

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Teen program-providing healthy out-of-school opportunities to teenagers for growth and enrichment is essential for strong, stable communities. Like the after school program, our teen program helps disrupt generational poverty by providing free out-of-school time activities to youth ages 13 to 17 in the areas of art, stem, wellness and nutrition, and social-emotional learning.