Chicago Lights Tutoring Program, Fourth Presbyterian Church

Description

The Tutoring Program serves youth who primarily reside in the Cabrini-Green and Henry Horner housing developments. The public schools that these predominantly African-American youth attend have lower median attendance and graduation rates and higher median drop-out rates than most Chicago public high schools (68% average graduation rate versus nearly 100% of private city high schools).

The Tutoring Program employs long term one-on-one relationships to foster intellectual, ethical and personal skills that create healthy self-esteem and open doors to educational opportunities for Chicago's underserved youth. Our goal is to help bridge the gap our students experience in school and break the cycle of poverty.