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Northpointe Family Apartments

Long Beach, CA 90805 Los Angeles County 528 Units

Services

Neighborhood Networks Community Center:

• Fitness center, pool, a large community room, conference room, offices and an on-site computer lab (20 computers).
  • The computer lab is a huge resource for the residents at Northpointe and has been designated a HUD Neighborhood Network Center. Its emphasis is computer access and literacy to all youth and adult residents.  Computer education and homework assistance classes are provided five days a week. HUD created Neighborhood Networks in 1995 to encourage property owners to establish multi-service community learning centers in HUD insured and assisted properties. Neighborhood Networks centers help:
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1. Improve computer access.
2. Advance literacy.
3. Prepare residents to take advantage of employment opportunities.
4. Provide access to healthcare information and other social services.

Long Beach Blast: (Better Learning After School Today)

Long Beach BLAST (Better Learning After School Today) is a nonprofit organization improving after school learning for at-risk children and youth through collaboration.

 

BLAST is dedicated to:

 

Providing skilled and caring volunteers to act as academic or enrichment mentors.

 

Enhancing academic and enrichment opportunities for children at-risk for school failure.

 

Supporting the social and emotional growth of children K-12.

 

Services:

Academic Mentoring Program

Our signature program recruits, trains, places, and supports hundreds of college student volunteers to work as academic mentors with youth grades K-12. Mentors work with children one-on-one or in small groups with three primary objectives:

 

Academic Improvement

Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Improvement

Future Thinking

 

BLAST also provides specialized enrichment programs by bringing in skilled college student volunteers to work with children in a wide variety of areas such as art, technology, and recreation. These activities engage students and result in higher overall achievement.

 

 

After School Program at Northpointe

The BLAST After School Program aims to provide academic support and quality enrichment opportunities in a fun and safe environment. It is a year round program that serves the youth and families at the Northpointe Apartment Homes in north Long Beach.

 

Operation Read Program

Long Beach BLAST partners with the Los Angeles County’s  Probation Department to provide literacy tutoring to partnering after school programs. BLAST’s Operation Read tutors work with youth in the areas of reading, literacy, and writing.

 

Elevate Your G.A.M.E. (EYG) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to “lifting urban students to a higher level” in their Grades, Attendance, and Maturity to Empower them to be leaders.  EYG was founded in 2002 by Michael Freeman (executive director of EYG) and Gipson Lyles (principal, Compton Unified School District).  Currently, EYG mentors 300 underserved urban youth through its mentoring programs at six locations: Compton High School, Walton Middle School and Centennial High School in Compton; Cabrillo High School and the Northpointe Apartments in Long Beach; and Harbor Teacher Preparatory Academy in the Los Angeles Unified School District.  Since its inception, EYG has also developed a Summer Internship Project, which provides on-the-job mentoring for the program’s high school teens during the summer.

 

Topics discussed in mentoring sessions include: educational achievement, time management, work ethics, professionalism, financial management, nutrition and physical fitness.  The mentors also monitor the students’ progress in their schoolwork and encourage them to improve.  In addition, mentors help students to develop career goals.  Occasional guest speakers address some of the above topics or expose the students to their professions.

 

Through service projects the students are given opportunities to develop servant-leadership qualities by serving others through various service projects.  Service projects have included the following: wrapping toys for needy children, feeding the homeless at a shelter, providing ushering at special school events, collecting books for children, reading to children and visiting children/teens at the neighborhood hospital. Businesses and government agencies partner with Elevate Your G.A.M.E. to provide summer internship experiences for the mentees to expose them to various careers. In addition, this provides them opportunities in the “real world” to put into practice what they learn in the mentoring sessions.

 

The program has proven effective and life changing for many urban youth, such as for 16 year-old Myeon who says,  "Elevate Your G.A.M.E. is a good learning experience for youth because we talk about different topics and it helps you in everyday life.  I love going to Elevate Your G.A.M.E., because I know I am going to learn something new and I always do.  I learned so many good qualities from my mentors through the past years.  All of the mentors brought positive changes in my life.  They taught me how to be more responsible in school.  They taught me to turn my homework in on time and they help me make good choices.  This is why I love my mentors and Elevate Your G.A.M.E."

 

Through the efforts of its volunteer mentors, 95% of its students graduate from high school and most continue their education at the college and vocational school levels.  EYG students have been accepted to Cal State Universities, University of California programs and to Occidental, Tuskegee, Dillard, Southern, and Williams College, among others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer Programming:

Extensive summer classes and programs are provided every summer at Northpointe Apartments. Providing safety, structure, supervision, and curriculum to the youth living at Northpointe is an important part of our mission.

The summer programs offered this summer were:

• Swimming class
• Fitness class
• Structured recreation
• Literacy class for children 4yrs – 6yrs old
• Cooking class
• Dance class
• Arts and Crafts class
• Nasa JPL program – an extension of 12 week program facilitated during the winter time
• Sign Language Instruction
• Youth Venture program empowers young people to create and launch their own enterprises, and through these enterprises called ventures, to take greater responsibility for their lives and communities. This will be a 2 month program.
• Junior Achievement program uses hands-on experiences to help young people understand the economics of life. In partnership with business and educators, Junior Achievement brings the real world to students, opening their minds to their potential. This program will extend through the summer and will focus on aspects of architecture and community development.
• In addition to the youth programs, Concerned Black Men of Los Angeles will be teaching a Microsoft Certification Class to the adult residents in August

The Imagine Mars Program:

This is a pilot program (Project Beta Test) developed by JPL-NASA. The Imagine Mars activity series is being developed specifically for the Northpointe HUD Neighborhood Network. Once it is executed, and evaluated, it is JPL- NASA’s objective to share the activity with other HUD Neighborhood Networks across the country. The finished activity set will be posted on the Imagine Mars website and presented at the June HUD conference in Florida. The 12-week on-site youth empowerment program was created by the educational department at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The program has been a collaborative effort between NASA, HUD, and the Northpointe Resource Center staff. The goal of the program has been to empower the youth and raise their self esteem by introducing them to ideas, technological resources, and leaders of the community. View the Videos

The Northpointe on-site Preschool:

• This Preschool program receives funding through the state of California and is little or no costs to qualified parents. Services are run by experienced Case Managers/Child Care workers with a back ground in child development.

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