- We seek to prevent the intergenerational cycle of poverty by intervening at the beginning of a child’s life and helping the parents.
- We focus on the critical needs of children and their families.
- We provide services that offer comprehensive and integrated approaches to healthy childhood by addressing the child’s social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and cultural development.
- We provide academic support and enrichment for children and youth to learn and develop both in school, after school and in the summer.
- We provide parents and families with life skill workshops to address all the problems perpetuated by poverty and violence.
- We help organize Irvington, neighborhood by neighborhood, to improve living conditions and create a sense of community.
- We engage residents to organize and rebuild the basic community infrastructure.






