SHIM’s Early Childhood Program provides the necessary supportive and educational services – both to children and their parents – to help vulnerable refugee/immigrant children succeed in school and in life. The goal is for children to enter kindergarten prepared to succeed academically, socially, and developmentally with minimal need for school-based services. ECP classroom activities are flexible and child-centered, recognizing that the children SHIM serves will come to the program at very different stages of development, with different skills, abilities, and challenges.

After School Program

In SHIM’s After School program, the primary goals are to successfully complete homework, aid in academic enrichment, and encourage socialization with others, including those from other countries. An added goal for this program is to keep children and youth engaged in school as they recover from the academic struggles experienced during the pandemic. SHIM aims to reduce learning losses by providing attentive supervision and ongoing encouragement to students.

SHIM’s Youth Mentoring program fosters the academic and emotional development of middle and high school refugee/immigrant students, providing vital resources for them to graduate from high school and achieve post-high school success in college, trade school, or the workplace. For the older children in Youth Mentoring, the goal is to support the students through adolescence and provide them with experiences that will prepare them to be the next generation of community leaders.