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RYASAP
RYASAP attacks the root causes of substance abuse by involving
children and teenagers in their communities. Charter Oak’s grant is
enhancing Youth As Resources, an after-school program in the
Bridgeport schools.
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Original Works
Original Works provides a creative outlet for Bridgeport adolescents
interested in drama. Original Works involves its 30 students in plays,
television documentaries and song and dance routines. The students
write their own material and perform for the public and in local
schools. Original Works is often its students’ sole exposure to the
theater.
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Music and Arts Center for Humanity
The Music and Arts Center for Humanity (MACH) is a non-profit
community school for the arts in Bridgeport that uses art to teach
tolerance, understanding, creative expression and communication.
MACH will use Charter Oak’s grant to pay for general operating
expenses.
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Greater Bridgeport Adolescent Pregnancy Program
The Greater Bridgeport Adolescent Pregnancy Program educates its
students about pregnancy and HIV prevention and services for
teenage parents and their babies. GBAPP’s clients include inner city
minority adolescents and young adults who are at risk for early
pregnancy and HIV/AIDS who reside in Bridgeport. Many are/were
clients of the criminal justice system; actively using drugs; homeless
or runaway youth; and teenagers and young adults from racial and
ethnic minority groups who traditionally do not link up with the
health and social systems. Charter Oak’s donation allows GBAPP to
continue an educational program for teenage fathers.
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Burroughs Community Center
Burroughs is a community center in the heart of Bridgeport. It houses
and subsidizes the rent of several nonprofits and provides a meeting
place for almost 100 more, including Charter Oak. Burroughs
received its most recent Charter Oak grant in support of its after-
school program.