Program Sites

The 64th Assembly District Office Internship Program offers high school, college students, and senior citizens a unique opportunity to participate in and experience the work of a California Assembly office. The program exposes those interested to district office operations and the grass roots activities of a legislator’s...

Foster and Adoption Program- Interns wil go on family visits, co-lead education classes, and have an opportunity to work in Child abuse prevention program if interested. 

Olive Crest is dedicated to preventing child abuse, to treating and educating at-risk children, and to preserving the family . . . “One Life at a...

The Orange County Bar Foundation (OCBF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to keeping at-risk youth in school, healthy and drug-free through education, counseling, mentoring, and family strengthening. The programs of OCBF empower youth and families to make positive choices, building the foundation for a lifetime...

CDV 480 Only Students

CDV 480 Only Students

CDV 480 Only Students

CDV 480 Only Students

The following Internships are available year round until filled. Students can pick one area to focus or combine internships: Native Garden Internship Assist in the development and maintenance of White Point Nature Center’s Native Plant Garden. The garden demonstrates how native plants are beneficial for the environment....

Created in 1985, Partners of Parks is a nonprofit organization comprised of dedicated individuals who care enough to share their time, special talents, and resources to keep our parks beautiful and our recreation programs available for everyone to enjoy.

Partners of Parks supports community recreation programs throughout Long Beach for kids, adults, and seniors. Some of the award-winning programs we fund include At-Risk Youth Programs, Youth Assistance Scholarships, Junior Golf, and Junior Tennis, Senior Center Programs, El Dorado Nature Center, Movies in the Park and Municipal Band Concerts. Visit our Programs page to learn more.

Partners of Parks helps care for more than 2,000 acres of parks, open space, and athletic fields in the Long Beach by providing funding for the preservation, maintenance, and enhancement of landscapes, habitats, and wetlands, bicycle paths and walkways, playgrounds, benches and picnic areas, community recreation and after-school homework centers.

Our Mission

Peer Health Exchange’s mission is to empower young people with the knowledge, skills, and resources to make healthy decisions.

We do this by training college students to teach a skills-based health curriculum in under-resourced high schools across the country.

Our Vision

Peer Health Exchange, with our partners, will advance health equity and improve health outcomes for young people.

Core Values

Our core values form the foundation of our organizational culture and guide our approach to achieving our mission and vision.

Health

We believe that all young people deserve equal access to the knowledge, skills, and resources that support their physical and mental well-being. In partnership with communities, we exist to help young people achieve more positive and equitable health outcomes.

Equity

We believe that all young people deserve equitable opportunities to learn about and act for their health. For our part in that work, we deliver a culturally appropriate, trauma-informed curriculum that focuses on the barriers facing the most marginalized youth. To do so, we address the effects of power and privilege in our work and strive to be anti-racist, anti-nationalist, anti-queerphobic, anti-transphobic, anti-sexist, anti-classist, and anti-ableist.

Agency

We believe in the potential of every young person. We work to empower young people to make active, informed choices about their health. In turn, we recognize the value each one of us brings to our work. We commit to making full use of our own agency as individuals and as an organization in service of our goals.

Communication

We rely on direct and honest exchange for all that we do. We value communication as essential to articulating our vision and goals, forming strong relationships, working through challenges, and learning from and with our young people and partners.

Impact

We know that achieving long-term success will require reflection, innovation, and sustained effort. To further our impact, we hold ourselves to meaningful and measurable outcomes, evaluate our successes and challenges openly, and act on what we learn.

History

In 1999, six Yale undergraduates began teaching health workshops in New Haven public schools in order to fill the gap left by an underfunded, understaffed district health program. In 2003, the founding members of the group established Peer Health Exchange to replicate this successful program in other communities with unmet health education needs. Since then, we have trained more than 8,500 college student volunteers to deliver effective health education to over 100,000 public high school students in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Washington, DC, seeing strong initial results.

Current High School Partners

Alliance Marc and Eva Stern Math and Science High School
Alliance Environmental Science and Technology High School
Alliance Health Services Academy High School
Big Picture Soledad Learning Academy
Environmental Charter High School
Green Dot Animo Inglewood Charter High School
Green Dot Animo South Los Angeles Charter High School
New Village Charter High SchoolPUC California Academy for Liberal Studies (CALS) Early College High School
PUC Community Charter Early College High School
PUC Early College Academy for Leaders and Scholars (eCALS)
PUC Lakeview Charter High School
PUC Nueva Esperanza
PUC Triumph Charter High School
USC East
USC Hybrid
Valor Academy
Vaughn International Studies Academy

The tutor will teach students using curriculum in Steck-Vaughn in concepts of Math and/or Language Arts. Tutor will refer students to resources, i.e., the internet, newspaper, library, etc., for information regarding research assignments for school work when needed. The tutor will provide communication with and perform other...

Carthay Center Elementary School
6351 W. Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Telephone: (213) 399-8599
Email: volunteerLA@readingpartners.org