The Center serves families in the neighborhood and is proud to sustain a healthy, stable environment that creates a positive impact on children's lives with programs that are free to all participants and enriches the quality of life in the North Roseville Neighborhood. Our priorities are nutritional meals, education and Life skill training, we believe in giving our youth chance’s to experience different opportunities that they would not otherwise have. We are currently operating solely on fundraisers, grants and donations and are so grateful for those who see the value in our unique program.

Their mission:

To sustain a healthy, stable environment that makes available to the children of the North Roseville neighborhood a Community Center that provides Recreational, Educational & Creative activities as well as referral assistance in obtaining social services at no cost in a positive atmosphere that will allow disadvantaged at-risk youth to reach their full potential. In doing so, we create a positive impact on their lives now, and for the future.

Their current successes:

Are simple ones, such as completing their daily homework assignments and receiving good grades (instead of hanging out in the streets in the neighborhood) to having two of our teenagers actually ask for assistance with high school class scheduling problems because their parents could not speak English and were not able to help them. We currently have 91 children enrolled in our free afternoon program, with 28 students who participate at least 3 times a week.

Their long term success:

Will be measured by the progress that we see with our children’s school grades, manners, team work and overall participation in activities at the Center. The long term impact that we hope to see are productive adults that are not in “the system” (welfare, courts or otherwise) that were once “at risk” because of being disadvantaged due to language barriers within the family, cultural differences and living in a low income gang driven neighborhood. In this process, we hope to teach each child to “pay it forward” as adults to enrich the community in which they live, therefore giving another child the same opportunity that they were graciously given.

For more information, please visit http://www.northrosevillereccenter.org/