Youth Resources
Education and family resources for students and their families
All of our youth programs have been created to help support your child’s educational journey and help you strengthen your family. We understand that programs may not always be the solutions and that as a parent/caretaker there are other resources you might need for your family.
Family Engagement Activities
Throughout the year we host events to help our neighbors connect with other families, meet new people, and engage in fun family-friendly activities!
Parent Cafes
Parent Cafe’s are monthly get-togethers for parents and caregivers.
If you’re a parent/caregiver looking to feel inspired, energized, and excited about parenting – join us for a Parent Café session! We offer monthly sessions that provide peer-to-peer learning and individual self-reflection that will help you explore your family strengths and build on your personal wisdom and the experiences of others to strengthen your family.
Our Parent Cafés are structured discussion times using the principles of adult learning and family support.
Learn Early Play Dates
Opportunities for you and your child (0-5 years old) to meet neighbors and engage in activities to support a healthy development.
Weekly, open play dates provide authentic opportunities for families to engage with their infants and toddlers in developmentally appropriate activities, while meeting and learning from other parents and caregivers. Drop in to a session if you’re looking for new ways to support your child’s development through play! These sessions are open to anyone in the community with a child 0-5 years old.
Educational Resources
Below is a listing of educational resources we recommend to our students and families. These include online homework help, fun games about animals and the earth, time travel role-playing and puzzle games, educational webinars, and much more! Feel free to explore the many resources below!
Enroll Indy
Enroll Indy is an organization focused on streamlining the school enrollment process in Indianapolis. Their mission is to help families choose schools that meet their children’s needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in Indy.
AskRose
Homework isn’t always easy. That’s why AskRose is here to help. It’s a free math and science tutoring service for Indiana and other students in grades 6-12. Tutors are Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology students who major in math, science or engineering; and they’re more than equipped to help with virtually any math or science homework problem.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-based digital curriculum resources for K-12 classrooms worldwide. They encourage lifelong learning for students and teachers alike with award-winning digital textbooks, high-quality content, and the largest professional learning community of its kind.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. They tackle math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content. They focus on skill mastery to help learners establish strong foundations, so there’s no limit to what they can learn next!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed aims to spark and celebrate the ideas and knowledge-sharing of teachers and students around the world.
Everything TED-Ed does supports learning — from producing a video library of original animated lessons, providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lesson plans, helping curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills, or celebrating innovative leadership.
PBS LearningMedia
BrainPop
SciShow Kids
SciShow Kids explores all those curious topics that make us ask “why?” Whether conducting experiments, researching new questions, or talking with experts, there’s always something new to discover with SciShow Kids, no matter what your age!
Education.com
Funbrain
Funbrain was created for kids in grades Pre-K through 8th, and has free educational games for kids. They offer hundreds of games, books, comics, and videos that develop skills in math, reading, problem-solving, and literacy. Educators and parents can trust their site to provide a fun and safe experience at home and at school.
ABCya
ABCya provides over 300 fun and educational games for grades PreK through 6. Their activities are designed by parents and educators, who understand that children learn better if they are having fun.
With so much variety, there is sure to be something for kids at all learning levels and styles.
Tribe Time
The Time Tribe is a time travel adventure story for kids. It combines role-playing and puzzle-solving in a tablet and browser-based adventure game featuring real world artifacts, letters, and stories to build out a narrative filled with rich and quirky characters, dastardly plots, actual history and archaeology.
National Geographic Kids
iCivics
iCivics engages students in meaningful civic learning. They provide teachers effective, innovative, freely accessible resources that enhance their practice and inspire their classrooms. Their mission is to ensure all students receive a high quality civic education.
Spelling City
Starfall
Crash Course Kids
Crash Course Kids is a bi-weekly show all about grade school science. They look at Earth, Habitats, Space, Chemical Reactions, Engineering, and much much more with host Sabrina Cruz.
Videos are free and can be used by teachers, students, and learners of all kinds.
Neighborhood School Supports
JBNC recognizes the power of supporting both youth and their families, who thrive when they are healthy and have access to exceptional educational opportunities, strong economic support and deep networks of social capital. By effectively coordinating efforts at the school level and increasing accessibility to services and support, all youth and families can prosper.
School support is funded through the IndyEast Promise Neighborhood (IEPN). The IEPN promises every child in the IndyEast Promise Neighborhood will be ready for college and prepared for a career. Learn more and become a part of the promise at indyeastpromise.org.
Key staff roles and their major focus areas are listed below
Family Navigators
Provides onsite case management services for families that are interested and/or referred by school staff
Community School Coordinators
Works with the school and community to assess needs and barriers to family and student success. Seeks out and secures additional resources and services identified for success.
Student Achievement Coordinators
Provide daily oversight of the EDGE Afterschool programs and coordinates with other community programs and resources to bring services to the school and reduce barriers to student academic achievement
