Programs
All Services are free to registered participants.
After-School Programs
(contact The Intersection for exact program dates and times)
- Academic tutoring
- Homework help
- Remedial Math classes
- Writing and Creative Arts classes
- Multi-media educational projects
- Social skills classes
- Art
- Character education
- Recreational activities
- Field trips
- Financial literacy classes
- Leadership training
Summer Program
Our summer program includes math and reading skill development, multi-media educational projects, social skills education, recreational activities, leadership opportunities, field trips, snacks and hot meals for six weeks of the summer.
We finish our summer program with an optional camp for those children who are recommended to go and whose parents approve their attendance.
The summers of 2006 and 2007 our kids and staff attended Kids Across America Christian Sports Camp in Branson, MO for one week of wholesome and challenging activities with other teens from urban areas of the state.
Merit System Program
Each one of our youth have their own bank account in the Merit System where they bank up to 15 merit dollars per week through attendance, good behavior and service to others. They make deposits in their accounts, write checks for field trips and goodies, and learn to delay their gratification to save for the “big things.”
We take one winter field trip, a spring break trip and an end of year summer trip. Our kids are learning to save, to budget, to earn what they need and to be financially responsible.
All Stars Program
Thanks to a grant from the Juvenile Justice Department we have been able to implement a new program at The Intersection called The All Stars. The All Stars Program prevents substance use (alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and inhalants), premature sexual activity, fighting, and delinquency.
The program does more than prevent negative behaviors. The program also enhances characteristics we all want young people to develop. For example, it promotes idealism and a belief in the future, commitment to a positive lifestyle, wholesome standards, resiliency, a sense of belonging, and positive relations with parents and other adults.
All Stars has been recognized by the US Department of Education and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention as a model research-based program. The program appeals to common sense. Consider the following ideas:
- Young people who have a clear vision of their future understand that high-risk behaviors interfere with their life goals.
- Young people who make public and private commitments to their vision of the future are motivated to avoid situations that put them at risk.
- When everyone in a peer group agrees that high-risk behaviors are stupid, dumb, unpopular, and unacceptable to others, they understand that avoiding these behaviors will help them fit in.
- Parents can help their children to become highly motivated to avoid high-risk behaviors.
- Involvement in an institution that has positive standards - a school, church, recreation group, or sports team - will protect young people from experimenting with and engaging in high-risk behaviors
