2011-01-14T08:37:15-08:00 2010-08-31 Blazek & Vetterling 2900 Weslayan Suite 200 Houston TX 770275132 990EZ 2009-09-01 237176982 SHAPE Community Center SHAP 7135210629 PO Box 8428 Houston TX 77288 Deloyd T Parker Jr 2011-01-14 Jody Blazek 7134395739 X 2009 2016-02-24 21:20:13Z X www.shape.org X 415175 216367 198808 0 0 0 0 0 415175 3501 190747 68112 63261 3666 173060 502347 -87172 603526 7191 523545 23966 453 848273 790976 10871 20284 883110 811713 279584 288168 603526 523545 Impact lives of African-Americans Community Programs & Activities: Includes 1) Fruit & Vegetable Co-op, held monthly, 2) Youth & Adult Computer Classes, 3) Legal Assistance Clinics, 4) Adult Education Classes and Employment Assistance, 5) HIV/AIDS Education Classes (weekly), 6)Elders Institute of Wisdom (twice a week), 7) Alternative Wholistic Health Education - Food & Nutrition (monthly), 8) Annual Pan African Cultural Festival, 9) Annual Kwanzaa Celebrations and 10) Forums for Community Issues such as Tobacco Prevention, Voter Registration / Mobilization and others. These programs/activities provide and educate community members on healthy lifestyles and issues of importance to strengthening the community, as with our philosophy --- STRONG FAMILY; STRONG NATION. Through these programs and activities SHAPE directly serves over 10,000 people annually and impacts significantly more. 224477 Family Strengthening & Empowerment Programs: Includes an After School Enrichment Program (ASEP) which serves children/youth, 5-15 years of age (kindergarten-ninth grade) and their parents, the majority of whom are from single parent, extremely-low income families. The goal of the ASEP is to promote academic and life choice success through homework assistance and tutorial study, life skills, and cultural sharing experiences for students during the school year from August-May. Additionally, Parent Support Group meetings are held biweekly on Wednesdays, with 100% participation, to address parenting skills issues, challenges, strategies and family strengthening and empowerment, in general. Also included is a Summer Enrichment Program which operates annually a ten week full day (7:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.) program for children and youth ages 5 years - 15 years old, with a weekly Parent Support Group meeting. Our Family Center at 3815 Live Oak is the focal point for this program, with additional program activities at our newly rebuilt Harambee Building, located at 3903 Almeda Rd. This enrichment program provides activities in the areas of performance arts, visual arts, (music, dance, crafts, ceramics,) life skills (group talk & role play sessions, swimming) physical education (participation in sports & recreation), field trips, African and African American history. The children and youth present a performance of dance, dramatic interpretation, and music as well as an arts and crafts exhibit as a culminating activity during the last week of the program. These programs and activities operate on average 48 weeks of the year serving an average of 45 youth and 25 parents during the school year, and 90 to 100 youth and 60 parents during the summer sessions. 207642 432119 Earl O Fisher PO Box 8428 Houston TX 77288 50.00 25667 Deloyd T Parker Jr PO Box 8428 Houston TX 77288 50.00 26680 Leonard Taylor PO Box 8428 Houston TX 77288 2.00 0 King Malaki Sims CPA PO Box 8428 Houston TX 77288 2.00 0 Byron K Parker PO Box 8428 Houston TX 77288 2.00 0 Barbara TS Marshall PO Box 8428 Houston TX 77288 2.00 0 false false false false false false 0 0 false false Earl Fisher PO Box 8428 Houston TX 772888428 7135210629 false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE X 558393 1168469 448309 267391 216367 2658929 0 0 558393 1168469 448309 267391 216367 2658929 218643 2440286 0 0 0 2658929 583070 0.91780 0.95940 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED