Our Programs

LBH Fall Afterschool 2010 Schedule*

COMPLETE SCHEDULE COMING SOON!

Saturday:

Family to Family meetings

Special Needs Support Group

Weekdays: Parent Support Services (during school hours)

Weekday Evenings: Early Education Playgroup

LBH 2010 Summer Camp*

Ages 4: -15

The LBH Summer Camp will provided an 8-hour a day, 5 day a week educational activities to combat summer learning loss for 35 children and youth, ages 2-15. Campers will go on several field trips and participate in neighborhood activities in order to gain experience traveling in groups and learning about the community in which they live. One of the main summer projects the kids will participate in at the Little Blue House Summer Camp will be to create a family tree. This project will teach the children about their own family history as well as learning about their friends.

Everyday at the LBH, we measure our kids in socialization, verbalization, and impulse control.

Program Outlines

The LBH has three standard program outlines that offer the best chances for our families to achieve self-sufficiency and our children to develop socially and academically to the fullest extent of their own abilities.

Fall-Spring Out-Of-School Hours

This program utilizes our academic support, anti-drug and anti-arrest program. In other words our After School Program, which at its base, keeps kids involved in constructive activities during non-school hours. Our title child participant base is split into developmental-age groups. In other words, our kids go from “Little Kids Group” to “Middle Kids Group” and then on to “Big Kids Group” based their progress and maturity as measured on the LBH developmental scale. Not based on age or any other criteria. During the school year, each group has its own meeting day at the LBH, as a group.

LBH Summer Camp

This program keeps kids busy all-day, every weekday with educational, social and developmental programs. Kids are offered breakfast if they didn’t eat any before coming to the LBH. The kids get fed at least one hot meal a day during camp. Various activities the kids participate in include The Virginia Gold Cup, horse races in Northern Virginia; a trip to the beach (the first for many of the kids); and playing on the water slide that director Carl Foster installed in the backyard, among others. The kids are picked up every day and taken home if their parents are working or don’t have transportation.

The camp is a great way to help the parents in our program as well, because daycare can be very expensive and many parents in our program must work full-time in order to support their families.

Parent program

Our program outline for parents is based on the Family-to-Family parent support program. We have a group of middle-class “mentor parents” who come to the house to attend weekly parent lunches with our “mentee parents”. We have a translator who attends lunches with our Spanish-speaking parents so those parents who don’t speak English can participate in the conversation. Parents who attend the lunches don’t talk about welfare issues, they focus on talking about their children and any problems they may have and the other parents offer advice on how to handle some of those issues. Any welfare issues are handled during separate social work sessions held by our social worker, Malca Gottlieb.

The Little Blue House has a single core mission: to help under-supported families in the District of Columbia. LBH believe in building safe, stable family environments for children. LBH programs are designed to identify families in need of assistance before there is a crisis, and address the gaps between the family needs and services currently available to families in Washington, D.C. Our clients - parents and youth - as well as funders, colleagues, and the public can be sure that the role we play in the community is meaningful, productive, and worthy of reciprocal energy and dedication.