Lois Young's Contact Details

Lois Young's Company Details

Community Education Partnerships

Oakland, California, United States • 9 Employees
Nonprofit Organization Management

Community Education Partnerships (CEP) provides educational support to students facing homelessness and housing insecurity in the Bay Area. We recruit, screen, and train volunteers to provide high-quality academic tutoring and mentoring for our students. We also run a Children's Learning Center in Oakland and host group programming throughout the Bay Area. As we approach our work, we acknowledge that:+ Access to safe and appropriate housing and high-quality educational opportunities are fundamental rights that are denied to too many.+ Homelessness and housing instability need not, but too often do, create obstacles to learning and educational access.+ Education is empowering. + So-called "achievement gaps" are better understood as "opportunity gaps."+ There is intrinsic value in learning, even if not aimed at academic achievement.+ Everyone can learn if given the opportunity, tools, time, and support to do so. + All students deserve to be held to high expectations and set up for academic success. Our philosophy of service is based on:+ Respect, humility, and non-judgment. + The recognition that with our privilege comes the opportunity and responsibility to show up and use our advantages and resources to help our neighbors.+ The belief that all children have a right to be seen, heard, and valued and that showing up for children now can have a life-long impact.+ An acknowledgment that the communities we serve are best able to identify their needs and priorities and that their voices and guidance should direct our planning and decision making. + The recognition that, through service, we can build meaningful connections between individuals and groups who are often segregated from each other.