Prevention & School Enrichment Programs
CPLC offers school-based and community-based prevention programs for at-risk youth. For example, CPLC’s Cultural Pride Linking Communities (CPLC) program provides additional academic and social support for elementary school students, reinforcing each child’s resiliency, resources, and talents through daily mentoring and tutoring as well as home visits and monthly family support-group sessions.
Carl Hayden Community Center
The Carl Hayden Community Center (CHCC), housed in a facility donated to CPLC by the U.S. Department of Justice, provides educational and recreational programs for youth in West Phoenix. Like MAG, CHCC provides academic and life skills development training to youth and their families.
The center provides educational and recreation programs for youth residing in West Phoenix. CHCC provides youth with a safe and nurturing environment, successfully facilitating positive peer interaction through drop-in center activities. Additional programs that operate out of the center include:
- Pathways to Success Internship Program
- Parent/Neighborhood Organizing
- Life Skills Program for youth
- Guiding Good Choices Parent Program
Carl Hayden Community Center
3216 West Van Buren
Phoenix, AZ 85009
602.269.2578 – p
602.269.2814 – fax
Contact: Maria Parra
Mothers Against Gangs (MAG)
Mothers Against Gangs (MAG) provides young adults and their families with alternatives to destructive behavior through constructive activities leading to new life choices. MAG provides academic and life skills development training in a safe and nurturing environment.
The MAG center provides educational and recreation programs for youth residing in East-Central Phoenix. MAG provides youth with a safe and nurturing environment, successfully facilitating positive peer interaction through drop-in center activities. Additional programs that operate out of the center include:
- Tobacco Education and Prevention Program
- Excelencia Drug Prevention Community Coalition
- Life Skills Program for youth
- Guiding Good Choices Parent Program
Mothers Against Gangs
1401 East Thomas Road
Phoenix, AZ 85014
602.235.9823 – p
602.235-9174 – fax
Contact: Maria Parra
Cultural Pride Linking Communities
CPLC provides at-risk students in third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades with additional academic and social support through a tailored prevention program, called Cultural Pride Linking Communities (CPLC). School personnel refer the students to the program based on preset criteria such as academic difficulties, behavioral problems, and family dysfunction. These are factors that can place a student at risk for dropping out of school, getting involved with substance abuse, and associating with gangs. While these risk factors are used to identify students initially, the program emphasizes and promotes each child’s resiliency, resources, and talents. The program promotes year-round academic and social skill building through daily mentoring, during and after-school tutoring, and after-school life-skills groups. The program staff strives to strengthen family unity through home visits and monthly family support groups sessions
CPLC’s Cultural Pride Linking Communities was developed to empower youth to lead healthy successful lifestyles by maximizing their educational attainment and increasing their resiliency. Additionally the program promotes participation in activities that reflect family/cultural values and community pride. This is accomplished through the provision of the following services: mentorship, life-skills groups, and parental outreach/engagement.
Cultural Pride Linking Communities
927 East 8th Street
Tempe, AZ 85281
480.967.3602 – p
480.967.3612 – fax
Contact: Veronica Castillo