- Seniors' Club
Each week, Gads Hill Center provides a place for recreational, educational, and cultural activities for seniors.
In addition to weekly socializing and regular bingo games, seniors enjoy field trips, parties, and performances from visiting dance and theatre groups.
- Community Literacy
Gads Hill
Center's Community Literacy program provides English as a Second Language
(ESL) instruction to 100 adults who have low literacy skills in Spanish and
are reading at or below 5th grade level in English.
The
program also sponsors Family Reading Nights for 250 adults and children
each quarter. This program helps
the whole family to learn together and helps children in their learning
and literacy process.
- Salsa,
Sabor y Salud
Salsa,
Sabor y Salud provides weekly activities for children and families about
nutrition and physical activity. With our partner, Kraft Foods, we are
implementing an innovative healthy lifestyle curriculum, developed by the
National Latino Children's Institute.
- Community
Computer Labs
Our
labs provide 42 computer workstations with Internet access. The labs
provide instruction on basic computer
literacy, using the Internet and office productivity software. The labs
are used by Gads Hill programs and have open hours for the community.
- Wireless
Community Network Project
A
collaboration with the Center for Neighborhood Technology, the Wireless
Community Network Project is working to provide affordable broadband Internet
access to the Pilsen neighborhood. An antenna on the roof of the Cullerton Street facility
broadcasts a high-speed Internet signal within a two block radius. Families
participating in this pilot project have computers configured to receive the
signal at no charge to them.
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