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Hillsides to Offer Free Tutoring for Students in Baldwin Park, Echo Park, and South Pasadena

Published on Thursday, August 18, 2016 | 3:57 pm
 
Ian Lee, Hillsides tutor coordinator.

Hillsides, a foster care charity in Los Angeles, is offering free tutoring to students ages 4 – 14 at its Family Resource Centers located in Baldwin Park, Echo Park, and South Pasadena. Beginning the week of August 22, children will be offered after-school drop-in tutoring on a weekly basis. Tutors will be available to help students with homework, school projects, and individual reading instruction through Hillsides intensive reading program, Reading Rocks.

“The program is designed for Hillsides clients but is open to everyone,” said Hillsides Tutor Coordinator Ian Lee. “The goal is to have volunteers from the community helping students in that community.”

The Family Resource Centers are located at 13001 Ramona Blvd., Suite A, Irwindale, CA 91706: 1910 W. Sunset, Suite 650, Los Angeles, CA 90026: and 149 Pasadena Ave., South Pasadena, CA 91030, respectively.

Hillsides has maintained tutoring services for 30 years for the children and youth in residence at the Residential Treatment Services program on the main campus in Pasadena. In recent years, under the direction of Lee, the program has more than doubled in size to include 75 tutors with an average of 55 tutoring hours per week and 30-40 children.

This summer, Hillsides initiated a pilot community tutoring program at the South Pasadena Family Resource Center. “We started off small, with just a few students, but by the end of the 10 weeks, we were busting at the seams,” said Lee. “The excitement and the need is there.”

Due to the success of the pilot, Hillsides decided to continue with the program at the South Pasadena site and to also offer it at the Baldwin Park and Echo Park Family Resource Centers. Tutoring will also be available for transition-aged youth at Hillsides Youth Moving On Peer Resource Center in Pasadena, a one-stop shop of resources and services for youth ages 16 – 25.

All tutors are volunteers. The majority are high school students who attend local schools. More tutors are needed, especially in the Baldwin Hills and Echo Park Family Resource Centers. To become a tutor, volunteers need to be over the age of 14 and complete an application that includes a live scan, fingerprinting and a TB test. To find out how to become a tutor or to learn more about the program, please contact Ian Lee at ilee@hillsides.org or (323) 254-2274, ext. 1284 or Community Resources Director Laura Kelso at (323) 254-2274, ext. 1251 or lkelso@hillsides.org.

Hillsides Family Resource Centers offer numerous community-based programs and services such as parenting classes, mental health support and other crucial resources, and are one of Hillsides core programs.

About Hillsides

Hillsides provides high quality care, advocacy, and innovative services that promote safe, permanent environments where children and youth can thrive. Headquartered in Pasadena, the agency and its affiliation with Bienvenidos serves 13,000 children and families in Los Angeles County throughout its 35 sites, including school-based mental health offices in Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Baldwin Park. Adoption services and licensed resource homes, formerly known as foster homes, serve families in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. To learn more about both agencies, visit www.Hillsides.org and www.Bienvenidos.org. Visit Hillsides on Facebook @hillsideschildren, on Twitter @Hillsides, or on Instagram @HillsidesPasadena.

 

 

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