Helping Families
Building Communities
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Y - L.E.A.D. (Youth for Leadership, Education, Achievement and Discipline); focuses on aiding adolescents from our community in developing the skills they need to become successful adults. Y - L.E.A.D. serves teens, ages 10 - 16, who have already been involved in one of the Learning Center's other youth programs. This innovative program helps to build the leadership and academic skills of East Harlem's teens through five character building components:
Y-L.E.A.D. provides our teens with marketable job skills; academic readiness; and leadership skills as well as a stronger sense of self and community so that they may enter into the world prepared and with a strong conviction to succeed.
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