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