Program areas at UP
UPs Health Literacy Initiative(or simply Health) proposes to build strong and healthy individuals, families and communities.It offers physical fitness classes and workshops on health issues affecting our communities, also aims to improve residents quality of life through nutrition, exercise and stress reduction. We offer healthy cooking, yoga dance aerobics, nutrition seminars, and guitar classes. Periodically, it hosts health-related seminars on topics such as obesity, asthma, respiratory illnesses, gardening, organic food, preventive medicine, drug abuse, alcoholism, and STDs.
UP to Youth Program is an after-school program designed to serve 11-to-17 year-old youth. It aims at getting them to know themselves first while learning from one another and the surrounding community through academicand civic engagement, good health habits at the same time that they embrace creative problem-solving strategies. Youth are encouraged to become leaders in their own community and city through civic engagement exercises such as service learning projects and ventures outside the comfort of their neighborhood. Youth are also encouraged to create good health habits through physical activity ande teamwork exercises. Facilitators work with youth to foster healthy habits as well as boost confidence and perceived self-image. Facilitators also strive to facilitate activities that will hone youths creative problem-solving skills by providing youth with opportunities to use the talents they already have and explore them further. Ultimately, UP to Youth aims to
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Universidad Populars learning to succeed(or simply LETOS) program is an adult continuing education programming that offers a variety of skills toward job readiness and workforce development. Every year LETOS serves and average of 300 students, ranging from 19-80 years of age, through morning and evening classes. Although ESL is at its core foundation, it adds along the way themes of common interest which, in our worldview, are treated as generative themes such as health housing, poverty, safety, jobs, banking, violence, taxes, unemployment, immigration, citizenship and so forth.