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Vote for SHARP Video in Let’s Move Challenge!

Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Campaign recently held a video contest for community organizations to create and send in a video on how they’re making their community healthier. Click the link below to watch the video that HACC’s SHARP program created. Support our SHARP participants by voting for their video – click the red “vote” button on the video page! The video with the most votes will have the opportunity to fly to DC and attend a Let’s Move event with the First Lady.

http://communities.challenge.gov/submissions/6743-sharp

The SHARP (Seeing a Healthy Active Rogers Park) program is a health promotion/obesity prevention program in HACC’s Youth Services Department. For more information about Youth Services, click here to visit the Youth Services page!

Adult Education Americorps Members Highlighted

April 2012: HACC Adult Education Americorps members Alison Clarke, Literacy Tutor Advisor, and Sean Pomroy, part-time Literacy Tutor Advisor, are highlighted in the April 2012 issue of the VOCAL Literacy Volunteers of Illinois Newsletter. Click here to download the newsletter and see what Alison and Sean had to say about their work at HACC. Sean is also the Youth Fresh Start Facilitator at the Employment Resource Center.

For more information about the Literacy Tutors program, contact the Literacy Tutor Advisor at tutoring@howardarea.org.

Youth Clubhouse Members Awarded Scholarships

February 2012: Two Clubhouse members, Nkurunziza O. and Brianna R., were each awarded $5000 scholarships from the Intel Computer Clubhouse Network. The scholarships are part of the network’s C2C initiatives, intended to support transitions between the Clubhouse and College or the Clubhouse and Careers. The competitive process invites any youth from an ICCN Clubhouse network that will be enrolled in a secondary education institute within the year of the scholarship application to apply. The application requires the young person write an essay about their relationship to their community as well as obtain 2 recommendations. For more information about HACC’s Youth Clubhouse, click here to visit the Youth Services page!

Youth Program Chosen as Best Practices Site

February 2012: Project JAM!, HACC’s After School Program at Jordan Academy in Rogers Park, was chosen by the City of Chicago Department of Family Support Services/ Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program as a Best Practices site for after school programs in underserved areas. For more information about HACC’s Youth Clubhouse, click here to visit the Youth Services page!

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5% Day at Whole Foods Market Evanston South Benefits Howard Area Community Center

Tuesday, March 20
On March 20, 2012, Whole Foods Market Evanston South held a Community Support Day, donating 5% of the day’s net sales to Howard Area Community Center’s Adult Literacy Program. The event raised $2973.00 towards the purchase of an e-literacy cart for HACC, which will double HACC’s abilities to offer high-tech literacy training to our community.

Employment Fair March 2nd a Success!

On Friday, March 2nd, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Willye B. White Park, 1610 W. Howard St., job seekers and employers had an opportunity to connect at an Employment and Resource Fair co-hosted by State Representative Kelly Cassidy, State Senator Heather Steans, and Alderman Joe Moore, with community partners Howard Area Community Center, Chicago Workforce Center, Northside, and Westside Health Authority.

455 job seekers attended the fair, and had an opportunity to speak with representatives from two dozen local employers and submit their resumes. Several on-site interviews were also conducted.