3. Teen Programming | Silver Spring Neighborhood Center

Teen Programming

By involving youth over a period of many years, our staff develops long-term relationships with participants. These relationships are at the core of our successful teen outcomes.

Each of the five seniors in our Teen Leadership Club in 2011-2012 graduated from high school and is headed to post-secondary education.

Pregnancy prevention, always an extremely successful program at Silver Spring, included two additional programs in 2011-2012: PREP (Personal Responsibility Education Program) and Parents Matter!, a United Way-funded effort to enhance dialogue between parents and youths about sexuality.

Once again, there were no teen pregnancies among the members of our teen social development programs and there were no felonies, making our total for the past 9 years only three pregnancies and one felony among 2,000 participants. This translates into a SSNC rate of .1%, nearly one-tenth of the citywide rate of 3.5%.

Each year, 10 teens participate in our annual Historically Black College Tour. This provides an opportunity for high school juniors to start actively thinking about campuses outside Wisconsin and ones where students are nearly all African American. Campuses toured were Spellman University, Morehouse University, Clark Atlanta University, Alabama State University, Alabama A&M University, and Tuskegee University.

Hours of Operation: Monday – Friday • 5:00 – 9:00 pm
5:00 pm – Homework help and academic support
6:15 pm – Social development programs:
Monday and Wednesday:
L.A.D.Y. and M.A.L.E.
Tuesday: Teen Talk
Thursday: Teen Leadership Club
7:00 pm – Open gym and game room, fitness instruction

Contact: Lashonda Kendrick 463-7950 x 29 or
Anthony McHenry, Assistant Executive Director
463-7950 x 55

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