Youth Empowerment Source

Established in 1883, West End Neighborhood House is a nonprofit community development organization that serves struggling immigrant families in Delaware. The organization offers employment, recreational, and afternoon and evening health education programs to prevent school drop-outs, smoking, teenage pregnancy, and drug and alcohol abuse among high-risk urban youth. Its tutoring program provides academic services to students in grades 1 through 12 from low- and moderate-income families. West End Neighborhood House offers individualized tutoring, homework assistance and computerized instruction services. It provides budgeting, employment, job training and child care services. The organization partners with the Delaware Department of Education, Female Benevolent Society and Wilmington Flower Market.

The Latin American Community Center in Wilmington, Del., has provided more than 35 years of service to the community. It was established in 1969 by a group of young Latinos whose parents came to the United States seeking greater opportunity to provide for their families. Its focus is to assist with the assimilation of Latinos from varying cultures into an English-speaking community. Help provided consisted of learning English as a second language, after-school tutoring and other children and youth programs, as well as family service programs to deal with the challenge of maintaining cultural pride while adapting to cultural change. The Latin American Community Center serves an average of 6,500 individuals with a staff of more than 50 bilingual employees that provide services in programs. Clients served come from Cuban, Mexican, Guatemalan, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Central American countries.

Hilltop Lutheran Neighborhood Center, Inc. is dedicated to providing essential educational and childcare services to children and families in Wilmington, Delaware. The center's Executive Director, Michelle J. Williams, expresses gratitude for the community's support, which enables the organization to fulfill its mission. With a commitment to nurturing the growth and development of children, Hilltop Lutheran Neighborhood Center relies on contributions from supporters and sponsors to enhance its programs. The center appreciates the trust parents place in them for the care and education of their children. Generated from the website