YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

21^st Century Learning Center (CLC) at the Brooklyn Academy: CAMBA’s CLC at Brooklyn Academy High School in Bedford Stuyvesant serves 80 ninth through twelfth grade students and their families. Program activities include: Math and English enrichment, arts & cultural education, project-based youth development opportunities, and family services.

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Services (APPS): APPS provides 200 youth up to age 21 in Crown Heights and Flatbush who are pregnant, at-risk of pregnancy or already parents with comprehensive case management, educational services, independent living skills, family planning, a teen fathers program, job-readiness training, employment assistance, childcare, medical/dental care referrals, parenting group, housing assistance, and a home visiting program for pregnant and new mothers.

After‑school OASAS Program/Drug Prevention:  CAMBA provides an after‑school program at P.S. 249 in Flatbush along with the Beacon's after‑school activities for local youth,. The program, designed for 75 at‑risk youth, offers a structured atmosphere and emphasizes drug prevention, academic skills, recreation and counseling.

Attendance Improvement Dropout Prevention program (AIDP): CAMBA works with I.S  68 in Brooklyn providing attendance outreach and individual counseling services to 70 students,  family involvement services to 35 families and higher education and career exploration to 35 students.

Beacon Community Centers:  CAMBA administers school‑based Beacon Community Centers at P.S. 269 in East Flatbush and at I.S. 271 in Ocean Hill-Brownsville. Both Beacon Centers are run in partnership with other community organizations to provide education, recreation, cultural activities, health information and screenings, youth leadership and social services to the school's students, their families, and other neighborhood residents. Activities and services are available after school, evenings and on weekends, and reach more than 4,000 people per year.

CAMBA Creative Kids: Began in September 2005 this program serves 220 elementary school children in Flatbush.  Program services are offered 5 days a week and include supper and socialization, homework help, cultural and enrichment activities, arts, recreation, conflict resolution, and clubs.

CAMBA Kids:  Started in the fall of 2002. This after-school program serves 220 children in grades Pre-K through 8 at P.S./I.S. 25 in Bedford/Stuyvesant. CAMBA Kids offers activities for children & their families, and features a partnership with Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment.

CAMBA Kids Connection:  Started in the fall of 2005, this program serves 200 elementary school children in Flatbush.  The program features supper and socialization, homework help, academic enrichment, conflict resolution, creative arts, athletics, recreation, student government, community circle, and clubs.  This program also features a partnership with the Prospect Park Alliance through which the children explore the natural and cultural history of Flatbush and Prospect Park.

CAMBA Kids Unlimited: CAMBA’s Kids Unlimited after-School Program serves 220 kindergarten through fifth graders at P.S. 92 in Flatbush. The program offers homework help, academic enrichment, clubs, conflict resolution, project-based activities and creative arts programming.

CAMBA One World After-School Program: One World After-School serves 160 middle school youth at IS 226 in Bensonhurst, a community with a growing immigrant population. In addition to activities similar to other CAMBA middle school after-school programs, One World also features Adult Basic Education/English as a Second Language classes for parents. 

CAMBA Scholars After-School Program: Started in 2005, CAMBA Scholars serves 150 students in grades 6-8 at MS 57 in Bedford Stuyvesant. The program features clubs, academic enrichment, conflict resolution, homework help, partnerships with Brooklyn Arts Council and Marquis Studios, as well as attendance improvement and dropout prevention services to youth and their families.

CAMBA Young Achievers:  Started in the fall of 2005, this after-school program serves 200 elementary school children and 60 middle school students.  The program activities include supper and socialization, homework help, academic enrichment, conflict resolution, creative arts, intramural sports, recreation, student government, community circle, and clubs.

Cool Kids Cool Down:  Cool Kids Cool Down is an abstinence education program designed to target preadolescents at-risk for teenage pregnancy. The essential features of this program include after-school counseling, individual/group counseling for preadolescents, workshops for parents/caregivers, and community network meetings to promote adolescent abstinence.

Kids Unite: Kids Unite serves 220 students at P.S. 170, an elementary school with children from a largely immigrant community, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. This program partners with arts and environmentally based organizations such as The Brooklyn Arts Council and The Horticultural Society of New York. Kids Unite offers homework help, conflict resolution and cultural arts activities designed to teach children to think globally, and act locally.

Kids World: Established at Beacon 269 in 2003, CAMBA Kids World offers after-school services to 160 youth in Grades 3, 4, and 5. Kids World includes academic enrichment, homework help, recreation, creative arts, conflict resolution, and counseling, and club activities.

Renaissance After-School Program: Renaissance serves 180 middle school youth at M.S. 587. Started in 2000, the program features conflict resolution activities, student selected club and elective activities, creative arts workshops, gender breakout sessions, homework assistance and career awareness activities.

Students Getting Organized (SGO): A violence prevention project started in 2002 in which CAMBA partners with two middle schools (I.S. 68 and M.S. 57) to establish a student government. In implementing a student government, youth have a voice in the process of creating a safe school environment, standards of student behavior, and a vehicle by which they can communicate positive messages about and opportunities for socialization to their peers in their school community.

Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP):  CAMBA places youth ages 14 to 21 in minimum wage work experiences, and oversees their employment. Youth work for seven weeks during July and August, and placements are made in both public agencies and private non-profits. Types of work include clerical, custodial, teacher’s aides, library assistants, hospital and recreational aides. As a project sponsor since 1995, CAMBA distributes applications, conducts intake, develops jobs, and monitors employment.

Supplemental Educational Services (SES): CAMBA provides tutoring services free-of-charge to students in schools deemed “in need of improvement.” CAMBA’s SES program delivers scientifically-based, small-group instruction and individualized tutoring in English Language Arts and Mathematics to both improve academic performance in the classroom and on standardized tests.  SES is an integral component of the federal government’s No Child Left Behind Act.  For the 2004-2005 school-year, CAMBA offered SES at I.S. 62.

Young Adult Borough Center/Learning to Work (YABC): A recently launched program located at Erasmus High School, YABC is designed to move 250-300 students who are overage/under-credited toward graduation. YABC uses the Primary Person Model wherein each student is supported by a Young Adult Development Advocate who guides him/her through all aspects of the YABC program. Barriers toward graduation are removed, including working with students who require flexible scheduling, child care and/or need to work. Support Services which complement the YABC’s classroom instruction (provided by DOE) offer opportunities and incentives that do not exist in traditional high school environments. Additionally, 150 students are laced in paid internships through the Learn to Work Center.

Youth Career Initiative (YCI): YCI provides 45, 9^th through 12^th graders at Tilden High School, with job readiness and entrepreneurship skills training. Students are also placed in employment and internship positions and they start-up and run a small business project.

Youthlink:  Substance abuse prevention program serves youths residing in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of East New York, Bushwick, Canarsie, East Flatbush and Ocean HIll/Brownsville with 12 work cycles of substance abuse prevention workshops that include such topics as basic substance abuse information, independent living skills and personal health.