Hallie Q Brown Community Center

Food shelf & basic needs - in 2022, hqb expanded its services to as a "mentor" to other organization on creating food pantries in their spaces and providing food to their organizations to fill their pantries. In addition, we changed the monthly visit to a weekly visit, so instead of stockpiling food for the whole month, clients take less and come back when they need it.

Early learning Center - we continued to provide full day programming during the year, and host a full enrollment of 42 students with a waiting list of 250 students. In addition we work with our employees from the Community to get a child development associate credentials which allows them to be a teacher. This helps support their personal career growth and hqb covers the cost.

Youth enrichment - during 2022, hqb continued to provide before and after school programming (with full day during breaks and school release days) providing educational assistance, and life skills. Because of our consistency, our students are where they're supposed to be academically, so we have been focussing on social and emotional well being and trauma informed care.