Programs

After-School Program

BHCLC's After School Program is for at-risk students (grades 1-12). This program is designed to equip youth to aggressively stand against the challenges they may face, and to train them to provide quality leadership for their peers and their communities. For the students, this program includes One-on-One Tutoring, Homework Assistance, Small Group Instruction, Organizational and Study Skills, Technology Lab, Life Skills, Mentoring, Character Education, and Identity Formation. Parents are involved in volunteer service, as well as Life Skills classes that are taught through the Building Bridges

Standing in the Gap Day Program

The issue of juvenile crime continues to be brought to the forefront of public discussion. In order to help address this community concern, BHCLC has opened a new Day Program in the Fall of 2006, called Standing In The Gap. Through a grant given by the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Standing In The Gap serves Pitt County elementary age students (grades K-6) who have been short term suspended from school. Additionally, the program serves identified juvenile offenders recommended by court counselors for short-term participation. school year the pilot program will have a capacity of 15 students per day, enabling BHCLC to serve a possible 2700 students throughout the entire school year. This program is designed not only to keep the children in a safe environment during their suspension, but it is also designed to be a "school away from school," so that the children will not fall behind academically.

300 Men of Standard

Meeting every Friday afternoon for physical training and movie nights, 300 MOS is a collaboration of two already successful youth development programs in two neighboring counties with two school systems to produce intense, measurable results aimed at increasing the graduation rate in the lives of young men. This long-term, holistic approach to mind, soul, and body raises academic achievement, develops social skills, and produces physical disciplines to support 300 young men grades 6-12 in Pitt and Edgecombe Counties. The ultimate goal is to create a cohort of 300 young men, targeted because of academic and social risk factors, who commit to a code of conduct much like a gang that includes academic, social, and physical standards. Through producing this unit of social equity and high personal standards, the initiative will uniquely serve those youth most in danger of dropping out across a two county spectrum.