Neighborhood Homework House Neighborhood Building

Rationale: NHH provides academic, social and spiritual tools to enable students to thrive and believes that a critical component is the family and their neighborhood as well. Thus, NHH provides leadership to the establishment and support of a Parent Advisory Group to encourage and support the neighbors in which NHH sites are established.

Parent Advisory Group

Mission: To facilitate community within their neighborhoods.

Objectives:

• Serve as a resource to neighbors
• Encourage other parents in their parenting
• Facilitate NHH required parent points for participation
• Advise staff and assist in evaluating neighborhood events
• Build and encourage neighborhood leaders
• Assist in planning End of the year Celebration where they too are recognized for their service to the neighborhoods
• To establish a process for assisting neighbors with produce from garden as well as financial assistance from yard sales.

Goal: To train and facilitate parent meetings to accomplish the mission, objectives and identified goals.

Academic
Seminars: Financial Management, Computer and Internet, English as Second Language (Rosetta stone), Literacy with Kids Connect parents with other Language development resources

Social
Workshops:

• Identifying Gang Behaviors
• Police Assistance Food Banks and their offerings
• Posada with Potluck
• Community Beautification
• Family Movie Night
• Community Garden responsibility [Need to establish process]
• Assist in planning

Spiritual
NHH to partner with Azusa Ministerial Association about neighborhood engagement during holidays