EDUCATE, EMPOWER, MENTOR
Offering at-risk youth a bright and promising future since 1997.
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Starfish Learning Center is a non-profit organization located in the heart of Chicago.
We educate, empower, and mentor at-risk youth in the areas of character development, academic proficiency, spiritual formation and social-emotional intelligence, empowering them to overcome and eliminate the limiting factors that lead to at-risk behavior and to secure a bright and promising future.
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EMOTIONAL LEARNING
It’s important for white people to see things from the perspective of people of color. This post explains the negative effects of choosing to ignore our differences. <LINK IN BIO>
The pandemic hit us hard in that we’ve been closed since March. We’re one of those “businesses” that requires fairly close contact, and, well, kids are pretty terrible at social distancing. But our board of directors, after much contemplation, discussion, and the direction of Chicago Public Schools and the Illinois State Board of Education, decided to initiate a modified re-opening.
At the time of the beginning of the school year (September 8th), Chicago Public Schools chose a fully-remote method of schooling. In an effort to support parents trying to work through the pandemic, Starfish decided to open in a limited capacity to serve students undergoing remote learning.
To read more about what we're doing during the pandemic and what we did over the summer, read here: https://www.starfishchicago.org/fall-2020-updates/
First week of online wasn’t the best but wasn’t the worst. Overcoming challenges as they come.
Back to school ice cream trip.
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“I'm at peace when I'm at work because I know my kids are in a safe place.”
Aserina – Starfish Parent
Latest Blog Post
Why “color blind” deepens the racial divide
Why being "color blind" deepens the racial divideI grew up hearing that being opposed to racism meant being color blind. We’re all the same; can’t we just live in love and harmony? Proclaiming one’s color blindness certainly cemented the fact that one was not racist....
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