Calendar
02/15/2010–02/16/2010
PDE Basic Tutor Credential
Monday and Tuesday, February 15 and 16 – 10AM to 1PM (must attend both days)
Must watch training videos first.
02/17/2010
Secrets of Parent Engagement
Guest Speaker Tara King, Schenley Heights Community Development Program
Wednesday, February 17 – 11AM to 1PM
02/23/2010
How to Make Homework Engaging
Guest speaker Karen Brooks, Reese Carnegie Library
Tuesday, February 23 – 10AM to 12PM
03/02/2010
5 Areas of Reading
Tuesday, March 2 – 10AM to 12PM
03/03/2010
Parent Engagement and Interaction
Wednesday, March 3 – 11AM to 1PM
News
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Peabody Community Learns Students at the Bank of New York Mellon Career Day
History
Wireless Neighborhoods was formed as a non-profit corporation in December 2003. The organization has its roots deep within the lower income neighborhoods of the City of Pittsburgh. The establishment of Wireless Neighborhoods as an independent entity was the culmination of years of cooperation and the tireless efforts of several of Pittsburgh’s preeminent community organizations including Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation, Community House Church, and Hill House Association.
Created to improve community and faith organizations’ capacities to respond to issues that affect the lives of the children and families in the neighborhoods they serve, Wireless Neighborhoods has chosen quite purposely since its inception to target a majority of its efforts and resources on improving the quality of afterschool programming because of the alarmingly low levels of academic proficiency, particularly for the children in the City’s African-American and lower income neighborhoods. Wireless Neighborhoods and its partners have helped transform afterschool programming from safe places with homework help and a snack into truly innovative, professional and youth-friendly instructional environments that are setting the standards for community afterschool practices.
Staff
Wireless Neighborhoods maintains a small staff with an executive director, two full-time education specialists and three part-time staff devoted to elementary curriculum, parent engagement and technology, respectively.
Accomplishments
- Raised over $4 million in government funding since 2004 to support quality afterschool programming
- First organization selected by the United Way under its new competitive funding formula; received funding in 2 subsequent rounds
- Established and supported 15 community-school partnerships serving over 500 children over the past 3 years
- Delivered over 100 hours of afterschool staff professional development training in 2009
- First community organization to require partner organization staff to have the PA Department of Education approved Basic Tutor Credential
- Developed 3 curricula that are being used across multiple afterschool program sites
- Managing data collection effort across more than 20 community and faith organizations