Inwood House
INWOOD HOUSE
P.R.I.M.E. Leaders
P.R.I.M.E. Leaders (Productive, Resourceful, Innovative, Motivated & Empowered) is one of Inwood House's prevention programs. It is an after-school program that is funded by the State Education Department's 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC) Program as well as the Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD). It generally operates between the hours of 3:00 p.m-6:00 p.m. The program currently serves over 400 youth from grades K-12 throughout seven New York City Department of Education schools in the Bronx.
P.R.I.M.E. Leaders' goal is to teach social responsibility, leadership and critical thinking skills through a project-based approach that links media, business, and community exploration to the needs, interests, and concerns of its participants. The program maximizes the personal, social, and academic growth of its participants by engaging them in relevant, developmentally appropriate, and empowering experiences.
Program Objectives:
1. To increase participants' academic performance.
2. To increase participants' knowledge of community issues.
3. To engage participants in community service-learning projects.
4. To provide participants with access to mental health services as well as sexual reproductive health information.
5. To increase participants' attitudes toward community issues.
6. To broaden participants' educational and cultural experiences through activities in the arts, technology, and physical health.
7. To expose participants to various careers/professions.
8. To increase participants' self-efficacy.
9. To increase participants' social skills.
10.To provide participants' parents/guardians with family literacy programs and resources.
The program meets its objectives by providing its participants with free snacks, homework help, and skill-building clubs as well as community service-learning projects which are facilitated through icebreakers, team-builders, cooperative learning assignments, reflection (through inquiry-based learning), trivia games, role-playing, structured debates, community walks, surveys and outreach, media literacy exercises, public speaking, group presentations, organized protests, goal planning, creative writing, visual and performing arts, educational field trips, career exploration, business venture, and sexual reproductive health workshops among other youth development activities which are linked to the national core competency learning standards.
Website: http://www.inwoodhouse.com
