The Kingsbridge Heights Community Center Youth Department's mission is to provide a continuum of youth development services that incorporates leadership opportunities, academic enhancements, social skills-building, and cultural awareness. We accomplish this by drawing on the strengths of the community, involving families, and partnering with schools and businesses around a shared vision for youth participants.
Teen Center is an evening based program offering social, recreational, and educational opportunities to neighborhood teens during the school year and summer. Whether participants attend discussion groups, play basketball in the gym, become involved in leadership initiatives, relax in the youth lounge, or listen to music in the computer room, the program offers a safe environment that supports young people's needs and develops their interests.
Tween Program is an afternoon program offered during the school year for middle school aged youth designed to smooth the transition between our on-site after school program, and services for teens at KHCC. Tweens are introduced to activities offered in the Teen Center and College Directions Programs in the context of a small structured group of their peers. Some young people attend both Teen Center and Tween Program daily.
For more information: Contact Sadie Mahoney at ext. 186 or Jessica Cuevas at ext. 149
Activities and Services…
Youth Council
Jr. Leadership
Individual Counseling
Theater Arts
Reading Buddies
Peer Mediation
Homework Time
Open Gym
Basketball Team
Dance Class
Parties
Computer Room
Cooking
Field Trips
Poetry
Girl’s Group
Guy’s Group
Rites of Passage for Girls and Guys
The Staff...
Sadie
Mahoney, LCSW Teen Program Director
Jessica Cuevas
Tween Program Coordinator
Derwin Greene Admininistrative Assistant
Ohene Cornelius Drama Specialist
Marquis Proctor TweenAssistant
Shawn Pressley
TweenAssistant
Jahilin Parada Math Tutor
Keith Yearwood
Recreation Specialist
Virginia Encarnacion
Teen/Tween Cook
Paola Racelis Eng.Tutor/
Dance Instructor
Bianca Perez Evening Receptionist
Fees…$50 monthly payment for Tween Program,
one time $20 registration fee for Teen Center
Hours…3:00 -6:00 pm
Monday-Friday
(Tween Program)
5:00 -9:00 pm Mon.-Thursday, 5:00 pm-8:00 pm Friday - later hours for
trips and events
(Teen Center)
Population Served…Young
People ages 11-21 in the Immediate North West Bronx
area
