Learning Center
History of the former French Court Learning Center
The French Court Learning Center is currently not active.
Living Faith, Santa Ana partnered with Trinity Presbyterion Church to launch a new Learning Center in August 05′. We have developed a strategic planning team who have been meeting since Feb. 05′ and all have a heart for Santa Ana and education. There is a tremendous need for after-school tutoring in our community.
When the school bell rings, the anxiety for parents begins. Parents across the nation are wondering what their kids are doing after-school? Are they safe? Are they getting their homework done? Who are they with? The truth is many of America’s children come home to spend hours of unsupervised time in front of the television or engaging in risky behaviors. Here are the facts:
+ By current estimates, there are over 28 million children in the United States with parents who work outside the home; many of these children do not have access to affordable, quality care during the hours before and after school.
+ As many as 15 million children are left unsupervised during the non-school hours.
+ Between 1970 and 1990, the proportion of American children under the age of 18 with mothers in the work force rose from 39 percent to 62 percent.
+ 35 percent of twelve-year-olds are left by themselves regularly while their parent(s) are at work.
+ Juvenile crime rate triples between the hours of 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
+ Children are most likely to be victims of a violent crime committed by a non-family member between 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
+ According to the National Safe Kids Campaign nearly 4.5 million children 14 and younger are injured in their homes every year and most unintentional injury related deaths occur when children are out of school and unsupervised.
A decade ago, the phrase “after-school programs” was rarely heard in the debate about how to better meet the developmental needs of children. Yet, today, out-of-school enrichment programs are now high on our nation’s list of solutions to the array of challenges facing children and their families. Support for after-school programs has increased in an unprecedented way.
- The Federal government has raised its investment from $40 million to $846 million to support school-linked after-school time programs.
- Combined with over $100 million in CalWORKS funding, more than $250 million has been invested in California in 2001, with the amount expected to significantly increase next year.
- Funding for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers has grown from $1 million to over $1 billion in seven years.
In addition to national policy makers and educators, parents and the public at large recognize the significance of after-school programs.
- According to recent polls, 90 percent believe that there is a need for some type of organized activity or place where children can go after-school every day that provides an opportunity to learn.
- 67 percent of Americans are ready to forego a tax cut to provide children good early childhood development programs and quality after-school programs.
- More than one-third of voters believe that the biggest problem facing children today is that they are left alone and unsupervised.
- In a survey of police chiefs, 86 percent said expanding after-school and educational childcare programs would greatly reduce youth crime and violence. 91 percent of police chiefs said America will pay later in crime, welfare, and other costs, if greater investments in after-school and educational child care aren’t made now.
There are 39 million children between the ages of 5 and 14, yet the United States has no organized system for providing supervision, activities, and opportunities to them during the hours when school is not in session. Our nation has a felt-need for after-school care and the church can meet that need by opening their doors after-school!
If you would like to be apart of this great and needed vision, please feel free to contact us at info@living-faith.info
Thank You for your passion and generosity as we transform a community one child at a time.
