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Truancy Prevention: A foster care prevention program that provides family strengthening and counseling services to families at risk. Services include domestic violence groups, parenting skills training teen groups, vocational assistance, housing assistance as well as other supportive services. Project CLASS: Offers comprehensive services to families that address substance abuse and family strengthening to prevent foster care placement. Family Development Program (FDP): A comprehensive, neighborhood -based foster care prevention program that provides supportive services to clients through crisis and therapeutic interventions. Services include educational, recreational, and social supports in addition to providing preventive services and counselling. Health: Healthy Harlem: Designed to fight obesity and promote healthy choices in our community through nutrition education, healthy food options, fun physical activity and parent engagement. One of the primary goals is to make the healthy choice the first choice at all of our sites, and to make the healthy choice an easier choice for our students and families everywhere else in our community. Academic: Academic Case Management (ACM): To strengthen the support for students not in the Promise Academy, HCZ has expanded its Academic Case Management system to work with every student from fifth -grade through the College Success Office. Academic Case Management is a holistic approach to youth development to strengthen our mission to support the healthy emotional, social, intellectual, physical and professional development of each child throughout his or her lifespan. Community and Beacon Programs: Community Pride (CP): This resident driven, neighborhood revitalization program physically transforms the community and empowers residents to create community coalitions and comprehensive community building activities. Countee Cullen Community Center (CCCC) and Booker T. Washington Center 54 (BTW): Both Beacons offer young people between ages of five and twenty -one and their families a safe, structured educational and recreational center as well as youth development programming. Geoffrey Canada Community Center and the Westside Community Center: Modeled after HCZ's Beacon Centers, both the Geoffrey Canada Community Center (formerly the HCZ Community Center) and the Westside Community Center (located in St. Nicholas Houses), provide after - school and weekend programs for all Promise Academy elementary, middle and high school students. The center also provides free activities for adults. HCZArmory: A 50,000 square foot facility that provides sports, fitness and nutrition activities during day school, after - school and weekends for HCZ youth and adults in the community.