This is how Boys and Girls Club of Mountain Communities is helping the communities around them.
“Power Hour
The first hour of every day is devoted to completing homework. Staff assist our members with homework and preparing for tests. Parents get to spend a stress free evening with their kids.
Virtues
Every week we discuss a new virtue and how our members can apply it in their daily lives at the club, school, and home. It is reinforced throughout the week as the kids work and play at the club.
Diversity
Each week we talk about diversity, talking about differences in cultures and beliefs around the world and in our own community. A favorite topic is the different ways our own members celebrate different holidays, their traditions and foods.
Healthy Habits
We encourage healthy foods by providing free healthy snacks every day. Organized and free play games promotes exercise and healthy bodies. Age appropriate discussions covering topics from personal hygiene to drug and alcohol use make the kids aware that they are responsible for their own bodies.”
City Impact Counseling Center provides quality Mental Health services to the Ventura County community. Their commitment is to restore and enhance relationships as well as bring reconciliation and hope to the children, youth and families we serve in the community.
City Impact’s Counseling Programs strives to provide quality mental health services to their community at large. Services are bilingual, family friendly and easily accessible in our main office as well as at church satellite offices, schools, homes and other community venues. While some counseling is offered at no cost to the client, they provide affordable fees for low-income clients who do not meet program criteria.
Learn about how Haven Academy of the Arts got their start.
In 2007, under the guidance of mentors and friends, Rebekah founded Haven Academy of the Arts, a non-profit organization designed to carry on the traditions of OCF Youth Theatre all year long. OCF Church graciously allowed this new non-profit to use its classrooms and auditorium for rehearsals and performances. Haven opened its doors in September 2008 with its first musical production, The Sound of Music. As a small, start up non-profit, the production featured 30 youth from both OCF and the local community. Haven produced three more musicals that first year and offered a K-5 art class.
No problem is too small, too large, or too shocking for the Teen Line volunteers. Here is some great information they put out on self care. 
For the past 47 years Plaza de la Raza has provided year round arts educations programs and has also served as a community arts center, presenting the finest in Latino culture programming in a variety of disciplines. Plaza’s mission is to foster enrichment of all cultures bridging the geographic, social, artistic and cultural boundaries of Los Angeles and beyond.
One of their students Jose was getting deep into gangs in the area. His father brought him to Plaza de la Raza to get away for that life and at first he wasn’t interested in anything, but then one day he discovered the piano. By the end of the first ten weeks he was playing Albumblat in the recital. He earned a full rife to Idyllwild School for the Arts and then a full ride to USC Music. He still teaches with and works with Plaza de la Raza.
The mission of Jericho Road Pasadena is to build nonprofit capacity by matching the professional talents of highly qualified volunteers with the needs of community based nonprofit organizations to promote community development, strengthen social services and enrich the lives of volunteers.
