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After School and Positive Youth Development
Adolescent Violence Reduction Partnership
Designed as an anti-violence program to
prevent youth from becoming perpetrators or
victims of violence. Trained case managers and
family specialists are assigned to high risk youth
between the ages 10 and 15 and provide services
on the street, in the home and in the community.
Program staff members establish a presence
in select high-crime neighborhoods providing
regular and intensive supervision as well as crisis
intervention and conflict resolution. The program
provides access to in-home counseling for the
youth and family as well as linkage and referral to
needed services.
After School Programs
Provides academic, enrichment and recreational
services to children during after school hours.
CVCA’s After School Programs are provided in
several distinct communities for students in elementary
and middle schools who are performing below basic
academically and/or without appropriate supervision
during out-of-school hours. Each program offers
evidence based curricula to increase reading and math
levels and enrichment curricula to increase conflict
resolution skills. The goal of each program is to help
provide the students with the skills they need to
succeed in school while also providing them with fun
and enriching activities during after school hours when
they are most likely to engage in high risk behaviors.
Allegheny West Adolescent Leadership Training Institute
Designed to provide youth with the tools they
need to become leaders in their community. The
Allegheny West Adolescent Leadership Training
Institute (AWALTI) provides youth, ages 12 -16,
with alternatives to high risk behaviors during after
school hours. Program components include: conflict
resolution, aggressions replacement training, resume
development, interviewing and job expectation
training, African American history and a variety of
traditional and non-traditional sports. The goal of
the program is to help youth find ways that they can
reduce their own risk factors and the risk factors of
their community.
Summer Programs
Provides academic, enrichment and recreational
services to children during the summer. CVCA’s
Summer Programs are provided in several distinct
communities for students in elementary and middle
schools who are performing below basic academically
and/or without appropriate supervision during summer
hours. Each program offers evidence based
curricula to increase reading and math levels
and enrichment curricula to increase conflict
resolution skills. The goal of each program is to
help provide the students with the skills they need
to succeed in school while also providing them
with fun and enriching activities during the
summer when they might otherwise engage in
high risk behaviors.
Teen Rap
Serves high school students who are
referred from select schools, from the City of
Philadelphia’s Juvenile Probation Department
and from CVCA’s Truancy Intervention Initiative.
The program provides youth with support,
education and skill development geared toward
increasing their engagement with and connection
to school. Teen Rap meets two times per week
for psycho-educational groups. The program
operates in ninety-day cycles with each month
dedicated to one of the three major themes:
drug prevention, violence prevention, and AIDS/
STD/teen pregnancy prevention. The goal of the
program is to identify youth who have already
started exhibiting behaviors such as truancy and
delinquency that are known precursors to school
failure and to provide them with the support and
skills they need to reduce high risk behaviors and
increase thriving behaviors.
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