Variety, The Children's Charity: Serving the Delaware Valley Region

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After School Program

Contact: 

Michael Birnbaum, Director of After School Programs
Phone:  (215) 735-0803
E-Mail:  

Variety – The Children’s Charity provides a safe environment for students with disabilities to engage in educational, recreational, therapeutic, cultural, and social activities during the after school hours. Variety works collaboratively with a wide range of community based programs within the Greater Philadelphia region to expose children to and create interests in various topics and activities.

Variety’s After School Programs support parents and families by offering educational workshops, a Community Advisory Board, and a referral service connecting families to social service opportunities in the Greater Philadelphia Region.

Purpose

After school programs can play a key role in engaging youth in the learning process by providing opportunities to explore interests, gain competency in real work skills, solve problems, assume leadership roles, develop a group identity with similar aged peers, connect to adult role models and mentors, and become involved in improving their communities.

In addition to keeping youth safe while families are working, these programs help school age children build emotional, social, and academic skills, and can include extra learning activities, homework assignments, employment of job skills training, and structured cultural and sports activities. Studies of effective after school programs show that they can contribute to many positive outcomes, including: fewer crimes and incidents of vandalism, improved academic performance, and decreased drug use among children and youth.

Goals

Features:

Variety offers several After School Programs in locations through the Greater Philadelphia Region for children with disabilities. These programs feature:

 

Locations for After School Programs

Opening Spring 2008

 

Please note, the summer after school program locations will be:

 

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