From:Nancy Gordon, Education Coordinator
Western Avenue Community Center (WACC)
To:University students seeking internships or field service placements at WACC
Contacts:Nancy Gordon
Email:
Phone: (309) 287-9164
Julie Short
Email:
Phone: (309) 829-4807
The Center offers students the opportunity to improve the future for individuals and influence community response to the diverse populations served at Western Avenue Community Center.
Students will:
- Be required to design a substantive work experience with at least one stated goal.
- Work at least 2-3 hours each week.
- Receive an orientation to WACC and ongoing educational and relational support.
- Be allowed flexibility to meet their academic objectives.
Services Provided / Resources / Funding / Partnerships
After School Club (Sept.-May)
- Tutoring
- Mentoring
- Monitoring Academic Progress
- Job coaching
- Academic help
- Summer camps
- Computer skills
Minority Golf Programs
Food Pantry
Translation Services
Interpreter Pool
Latino Women’s Support Group
Domestic Violence Counseling
Senior Program
- Stretch and Tone Exercise Classes
- Senior Dinner Dances and Parties
- Senior Computer Classes
- Health and Wellness Presentations
Homework & Project Room
Computer Lab
Kitchen
Gym & Playground
LINC Center Basketball Facility
Transportation / United Way
Second Presbyterian Church
State Farm Foundation / District 87
Unite Five
Bloomington Housing Authority
Midwest Food Bank
First Books
Bloomington Public Library
Boy Scouts
Interns and or field service assignees are encouraged to contact us or visit us at:
“The Center”
600 N. Western Avenue
Bloomington, IL 61701
The Center is open and serving people all year long.
All interest, aptitudes, and skill sets are needed as we seek to give all people hope and a prosperous future.
Western Avenue Community Center
600 N. Western Avenue
Bloomington, IL 61701
E:mail -
Fax: (309) 829-3910
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