Los Niños Program makes it fun...

Adelante also provides support for youth ages 6-12 through its Los Niños Program. Los Niños engages youth through comprehensive, holistic and culturally competent means. The program runs after school for two hours each day, Monday through Thursday, throughout the school year. It also operates as a summer program during the summer months.

Los Niños achieves results through many program components:

Academic Assistance – Adelante instills the importance of a quality education by developing an individualized academic plan for each student, providing daily one-on-one or small-group tutoring and encouraging regular library use.

Youth Mentoring – Los Niños develops empowering relationships between each of its 4th – 6th grade students and an older high school-age peer mentor. Each student is carefully matched to an older mentor, and the mentor/mentee pairs meet once a week at one of our after-school sites. The mentors focus on tutoring and interpersonal skills building, but also seek to provide a positive role model throughout the course of their relationship.

Health and Prevention Curricula – Adelante’s recent addition of the Salsa, Sabor, y Salud curriculum to the Los Niños program has encouraged the children to become more physically active and make healthier food and lifestyle choices. In addition, Los Niños continues to offer prevention education related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Cultural and recreational activities – In order to encourage holistic development, Adelante sponsors activities such as art classes, field trips, dancing, and sports that build self-discipline and impulse control while enhancing physical fitness.