Young Womens Christian Association Of High Point Nc Inc

Youth services - provide safe and affordable care for school age children ages 5-12, including programs before and after school and full day care during holidays and summer vacations.served 169 youth aged k-8th grade through after school programs and summer camp. The afterschool program offers a variety of enriching activities that provide opportunities for students to build life skills, develop critical thinking and communication skills, and work collaboratively with peers. The program includes homework assistance, an afternoon snack, collaborative art projects, weekly free swim, performing arts activities, pottery workshops, reading assistance, and free and structured playtime. Summer day camp adds swim lessons, health and wellness workshops, nutrition and cooking instruction, and age-appropriate field trips to expose the students to opportunities they may not have a chance to experience. Career exploration is also offered as part of both the afterschool and summer camp programs by having professionals speak to the students and visiting workplaces and college campuses for the older students.ywca has continued to ensure that children have a safe, nurturing environment in which to learn, grow and thrive. Ywca youth staff has continued to work alongside teachers and parents to ensure that students have all the necessary tools, guidance, and academic support they need to be successful. For example, as part of ywca summer enrichment program to help to close the learning gap, ywca provided tutoring sessions for grades k-3rd that focused on improving fluency and reading comprehension.through these activities, we have seen that 90% of the students showed improved grades, 95% showed improved behavior and 95% of them gained new skills! One young boy, ray, was very disrespectful to staff and other students when he first arrived at the yw. He was continually causing issues but through participation in the social emotional learning activities and as staff continued to work with him to show him that he was loved and valued, his behavior began to change. He is now polite, respectful, listens to counselors, and is a fun kid to be around.

Latino family center - the center is dedicated to improving the quality of life and to promoting community participation of latinos living in the community.lfc is comprised of hermanos, a program focused on middle and high school hispanic youth, and el pueblo, a community resource program focused on hispanic adults. Between the two programs within lfc, we served 2540 individuals. Students in hermanos meet weekly for avance during the school year. This is a space where students are encouraged to express their interests and be themselves. Avance focuses on higher education, service learning and over all wellbeing. Avance provides that allowing the students to be empowered to follow their path to be successful adults. During the summer, a four-week summer camp is offered for students. During the camp, they focus on an issue important to them and research and create a service-learning project for the community around that issue. They also have the opportunity to take field trips and explore beyond high point, such as hiking trips, trips to raleigh to visit museums and other educational and enriching activities. For many of the students this is one of the only times during the year they are able to travel beyond our city's borders.the biggest highlight of 2024 was a trip to washington dc. We had dreamed of being able to take a group of students to the nation's capitol so they could get a sense of their american heritage and see the seat of our government and also volunteer. This year thanks to many people and a generous grant we were able to take 15 students and 5 chaperones to dc for 4 days. For many of the students it was their first time traveling outside of nc. While we were in dc we volunteered with world kitchen in addition to seeing the sights and museums. One of our former staff from the yw was working in dc with rep. Kathy manning and he gave us a personal tour around dc and taught us about how the government works. It really was a dream come true!el pueblo is a community access program that provides outreach services, information, and referral services to latinos in the greater high point area. In 2024, ywca became a tier one family resource center through positive childhood alliance nc as a part of the statewide family resource center network. This enables tier one centers to provide increased connectedness, coordination, cooperation, and collaboration amongst members, training and technical assistance, advocacy, policy, and legislation, and maintain a shared data tracking system.we were happy to be able to offer our lead academy again. Lead is a leadership program that lasts for 10 months that equips latinos to become leaders in their communities as well as in the greater high point community. In the past we have had lead graduates serve on boards, step into leadership roles at their children's schools and engage in advocacy efforts in the community.

Women's services - programs designed to increase awareness of women's health issues and the doula program. Served 3077 clients success story: ms. Velvet is a widow and a grandmother in her mid 60's, who is raising her five grandchildren. She had been raising her two granddaughters, ages 12 and 16 and more recently given custody of her 3 grandsons-ages three, seven, and ten. Mrs. Velvet is no longer able to work due to a medical condition and relies on other means of support. She is a member of the ywca high point and reached out to the baby basics closet for assistance. The baby basics closet provides children with clothing, diapers, wipes, and other essentials. After sharing her story with one of our resource representatives, it was evident that her family would be ideal to receive a christmas blessing. Thanks to the partnership of the ywca high point and signature wealth, ms. Velvet and her family and her family were blessed with an abundance of gifts and toys to make their season merry and bright! Ms. Velvet is so thankful and gives all the glory to god for using this partnership to bless her family.

Maternal health comprised of several programs: maternal health, parents as teachers and healthy beginnings. Other program includes racial justice and teaching kitchen also.in 2024, our parents as teachers program was able to successfully meet all 21 essential requirements for our affiliate. This may look like just numbers and data but is the people behind those numbers and the families we deliver services too that make this possible. There have been many successes this year but a few to highlight are that almost all of our parent educators maintained full caseloads. Even when staff have transitioned, we have been able to maintain and retain the families that were on the previous person's caseload so that they could seamlessly continue receiving services. Speaking of services, a large part of what we do is connecting families with other needed resources outside of our program. Two of our families were dealing with homelessness and were able to be move into stable housing with a referral from their parent educator. We also partnered with organizations like unc-greensboro, bob's closet, barnabus network, habitat for humanity, backpack beginnings, and kellin foundation to provide our families with eviction mediation services, food, clothing, and furniture, along with mental health services. Another success of our program was the successful birth of several babies and parents choosing to breast-feed. We have also seen more involvement with fathers at group connections and visits. Finally, the growth of our families has been a primary success we have seen this year. Two of our adolescent parenting program participants graduated from the program and continued with standard pat. Several of our families have had children turning five who have registered their child for guilford county schools and have successfully transitioned from pat to full-time school. Despite the challenges of this year, we have seen both our staff and our families rise to the occasion, build deeper connections, and celebrate many successes.racial justice:in 2024 we hosted the first ever justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (jedi) summit. One hundred fifty individuals attended the summit. We heard from keynote speaker tyrone stoudemire, the sr. President of diversity, equity and inclusion at hyatt.