Family Place helps ensure that children state out with the capabilities needed for lifelong health development. Producing lifelong circumstances on learning, social skills and mental health. This is offered to children of low-income families, but is open to all. Poverty has damaging effects, including delays in physical, cognitive, language and emotional development. In turn this affects school readiness.
Many students face obstacles to learning, such as poverty and neighborhood violence.
A child living below the poverty line is less likely to develop academic survival skills. Through a unique structure, middle school students are provided with teachers and role models from their neighborhoods, showing to possibility of academic success. Students are empowered to e leaders and role models in their community. Over 10,000 free vision screenings a year are performed, including various eye diseases and disorders as well as promoting eye education and safety. Available to children, adults and elderly with limited means.