The Children’s Education Project

Website: https://boostoakland.org/index.html

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thechildrenseducationproject/

Description

Originally founded in 1997 as Boost!, The Children’s Education Project was established to help children in the West Oakland overcome the many obstacles in their lives and, ultimately, become their best selves. The Children’s Education Project steps up to meet the community’s needs by providing long-term individualized support to each student in the program. The Children’s Education Project carefully selects volunteer tutor/mentors, trains them, and pairs them with students based on the tutors’ talents and the students’ needs and interests.

The mission of The Children’s Education Project is to empower West Oakland youth with the skills and confidence needed to become positive contributors to society. The Children’s Education Project fosters healthy attitudes toward learning and strengthens students’ academic performance and self-esteem through individualized one-on-one tutoring and mentoring, field trips, and family events.

Literacy Programs

Each tutor/mentor provides their student with individualized academic and social-emotional support for a year or more. Despite the fact that students are referred to The Children’s Education Project specifically because of academic and/or social difficulties, they routinely make large gains in literacy, math, motivation, and self-esteem assessments. For many of the children this is the only time that they have such a high level of dedicated, positive attention from an adult, and the effect can be life-changing.