YMCA staff members attend school-day staff meetings to coordinate curriculum and activities. The collaboration between school-day and YMCA staff has created a seamless system where activities throughout the day adhere to a core knowledge curriculum designed by Trinity University. To find out more detail about the CCEE program, visit their Web site, or take a look below at the Program Examples section of this workshop. New Haven, Hartford, New London, Waterbury, and Bridgeport. As part of LEAP's multitiered mentoring system, the counselors are themselves mentored to improve their academic performance, graduate from high school and attend college.
Programs are both school and community based.
A typical afternoon during the academic year begins with homework club, which maintains a ratio of four children per counselor. During the summer, college student counselors help to provide summer programming. The game is for kids and by kids, and its goal is to increase understanding of the role of the individual in solving neighborhood and community problems. Visit the St. Louis Connections for Youth site at and discover what these St. Louis kids learned about government, about problem-solving, and about Web design. By taking this approach, students have a rich opportunity to explore additional facets of what they are learning, to make more broad connections, and to see the relationship between classroom work and the world at large.