WHO URBAN BLAZERS SERVES

Urban Blazers offers outdoor experiential learning activities experiences to underserved youth who might otherwise be unable to get out of the city. We work year-round through partnerships with selected schools, agencies and youth development organizations that serve youth in urban Philadelphia. Our youth range in age from 8 to 18, and come from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Urban Blazers provides the equipment, financial assistance, and trained leaders with physical activity and education, first aid, and youth experience; and the agencies/schools provide the youth.

OUR CURRENT PARTNERS INCLUDE:

Philadelphia Futures Sponsor-A-Scholar Program

This program builds long-term, working relationships with promising students attending Philadelphia's neighborhood public high schools, beginning in the ninth grade. The key objective is to provide the support students need to successfully complete high school, and to prepare for college and beyond. The program provides students with one-on-one mentoring; financial incentives; and a year-round curriculum of academic skill building and enrichment, including after-school academic classes, tutoring, college preparation activities and cultural opportunities.
Website: http://philadelphiafutures.org/sas_high_school/

PathWays PA

One of the Greater Philadelphia region's foremost providers of residential and community-based services for women and their children. Each year PathWaysPA serves more than 3,600 women, children and families who reside in Philadelphia, Delaware,and Chester counties through a full complement of social services, job training and employment assistance, outreach and residential programs.
Website: http://www.pathwayspa.org/

Northern Home for Children

Northern Home relies on clinical, educational and supportive services that enable the child to grow toward self-sufficient adulthood in a family that is strengthened and engaged, and in a school and community that offers resources for positive experiences. Our treatment programs are customized for each individual's specific needs and are designed to help each child discover his own authentic abilities and strengths - the positive behaviors that we can support and reinforce. Apart from medical indications, we use behavior as the guideline for therapy, education, assistance, and guidance not only for these youth, but also for their families. While our desire is to help our consumers achieve their potential we seek shared responsibility for outcomes. We ask commitment from the child and, when possible, from the family, believing that if we trust people to become accountable individuals and give them the resources, education, and support to succeed, they very likely will.
Website: http://www.northernhome.org/

Hope Partnership for Education

An independent middle school and adult education center in North Philadephia.
Website: http://www.hopepartnershipforeducation.org/

Young Scholars Charter School

Serving over 200 students, Young Scholars is an academically accelerated middle school that emphasizes reading and language arts, mathematics and science. What truly makes Young Scholars unique is the sense of community shared by students, faculty, and staff, all of who invest in a commitment to the growth of our children as they explore the world academically, culturally, and socially.
Website: http://www.phillyscholars.org/

Eliza Shirley House

Eliza Shirley House is an emergency shelter facility with two missions: to provide short term lodging, meals and immediate needs to displaced families, city wide on weekday nights and over holidays and weekends; and to provide longer term residential counseling, social work and referral services to homeless single and pregnant women 18 or older, 365 days a year.
Website: http://www.salvationarmyphiladelphia.org/res-she.htm#Eliza%20Shirley%20House

ACTS Shelter

ACTS is an shelter facility in North Philadephia.