Sonward Youth Programs

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2023-2026

Multi-year Grant:

elevate – Opportunity Lunch and Learn Program – A lunch program that provides one-on-one or two-mentorship. Groups eat lunch together and engage with a conversation guide that promotes social-emotional learning and deepens relationships. Following lunch, a STEM learning project is completed.

2024

Welcome Back Summer:

This grant helps fund Sonward’s eight-week summer program, which provides students in pre-K through eighth grade with healthy meals, social and emotional learning, STEAM and gardening activities and career readiness experiences, all supported by teen mentors in a safe and engaging environment.

2023

Welcome Back Summer:

Sonward Youth Programs in New Kensington is a community-based youth enrichment initiative founded in 2011. Dedicated to making a positive impact, the program strives to transform the community one child and one family at a time through meaningful support and opportunities.

This grant supports Sonward Youth Programs’ eight-week summer initiative, which offers weekday programming for students in pre-K through eighth grade. Younger children participate in a lunch and enrichment program featuring healthy meals, teen mentorship and rotating activities like social and emotional learning, community service, makerspace/STEAM and gardening. Older youth engage in career readiness activities designed to prepare them for future opportunities.