STARS Afterschool Program is an after-school program providing academic support through homework-based tutoring, literacy, technology training, and enrichment activities. STARS currently serves approximately 110 students and utilizes approximately 80 volunteers. STARS also works with families by empowering parents to discover best practices for supporting their children. This includes parenting class, counseling, support groups, nutrition education and other learning opportunities like ESL and technology classes.
Mentoring provides neighborhood students in Pasadena an opportunity to rise above the challenges of their environment to become college-educated community leaders. NSM currently mentors 60 at-risk youth and utilizes more than 45 volunteer mentors. NSM uses mentoring relationships with positive Christian role models to focus on students at a convictional level. This produces marked changes in a student’s identity, affects their value system and results in positive changes in their behavior and lifestyle.
Homeless Outreach. There are nearly 1,000 adults and children who either live on the streets or in homeless facilities on a given day, like today, in the City of Pasadena. We currently serve an average of 350 meals each week to the homeless and needy in our community and provide both temporary emergency shelter and transitional housing assistance primarily for families with children and single women who are living in their cars or on the streets. In addition, LACF provides relief for families who are about to be evicted from their homes due to a variety of serious life-impacting situations, such as illness, loss of employment, apartment fires, or physical threats to their lives.
