Children & Education

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Friends and Partners in serving the transformation of Children in Houston

Prepared 4 Life
Prepared 4 Life focuses on building assets in middle-school-aged kids by integrating life skills, character education and entrepreneurship with engaging experiential, fun after-school activities.

Children at Risk (Houston)
CHILDREN AT RISK is a nonprofit organization that drives change for children through research, education and influencing public policy.

Kids Hope
One child, one hour is the heart of KIDS HOPE USA. One caring adult mentoring an at-risk child one hour every week. Because when kids feel loved and valued, they are better able to learn, grow, and succeed.

National Church Adopt-A-School Initiative (NCAASI)
Churches and faith-based organizations are trained to provide mentoring, tutoring, life skills and character education, sports and Recreation,family Support Services.

Research sites about children

Youth Mentoring Publications (Public/Private Ventures)
In 1988, intrigued by the potential of mentoring, but concerned about a lack of solid information, P/PV developed an extensive mentoring research agenda. Our goal was to see whether "created" adult/youth relationships could, in fact, have positive impacts on healthy adolescent development.

The State of the World's Children 2000 (UNICEF)
The State of the World's Children 2000 seeks to fan the flame that burned so brilliantly a decade ago when world leaders adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989 and then confirmed their commitments for children and adolescents at the 1990 World Summit for Children.