Active Children Portland (ACP) has been honored to serve as a community partner throughout the Portland Metro area for the past 10 years.
While our primary focus is and remains to provide vital after-school programming for kids in underserved communities, we are proud of the many diverse outcomes we help achieve for the kids in our programs and the communities we serve.
Ten Ways ACP Contributes to Positive Outcomes for the Kids in our Programs:
- ACP prioritizes creativity and discovery in learning to engage kids in the regular school day, increasing attendance, grades, and positive future outlooks.
- ACP reduces inequity in education by providing individual support in homework, creative writing and poetry, critical thinking exercises, and new STEM-compliant service-learning and entrepreneurship.
- ACP works to improve health outcomes for kids through 60 minutes of activity and sports daily, access to healthy foods, and nutrition education all meant to build healthy minds and bodies.
- ACP contributes to social and emotional development for the kids in our programs by providing a safe space for them to grow and learn.
- ACP contributes to social and emotional development for the kids in our programs by providing a safe space for them to grow and learn.
- ACP provides an outlet for kids to improve their physical fitness for success both on and off the field through non-competitive soccer designed to build teamwork and respect.
- ACP encourages positive community involvement through annual service projects promoting whole family engagement. such as the building of community gardens or park cleanups.
- ACP encourages volunteerism, both from participants and the community. Kids develop and participate in service projects, while community members and corporations support their efforts or help run programs.
- ACP’s programming includes multi-level mentoring, providing kids with coach-mentors from their own communities who serve as trusted and vital adult mentors.
- ACP’s coach-mentor model ensures that not only are the kids in our programming receiving vital training and job skills, but so are our coach-mentors, who learn skills while giving back to their local communities.
You can help support kids in our communities by supporting Active Children Portland programs. Join us in celebrating 10 years and being active for another 10 by donating. $10 a month will provide all these outcomes for one kid, or please give whatever amount is meaningful to you.
