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Using the vehicles of academic support, professional cultural arts instruction, Living Values education, and one-on-one mentoring, The Milagro Center motivates children to “reach for the stars” while being confronted by adverse influences they face every day in their immediate environments.  The Milagro Center is a place where miracles happen daily, where children learn the values of responsibility, love, simplicity, peace, and integrity.  As a result of our unique programs, every child is recognized for his or her own exceptional talents and gifts.  Here at the Milagro Center our children are exposed to an abundance of art, culture, education, sharing, connections, community awareness, and an appreciation for life, replacing their exposure to gang related violence, drugs, teen pregnancy, and negative messages they receive through the media or in their personal environments.  The Milagro Center provides hope for children who live in neighborhoods riddled with crime and violence, opportunities for children who believe they cannot rise above their circumstances, and self-worth to those children who have been told or feel they are worthless. 

Our STARS, Teens, and Mentoring programs serve children onsite during out-of-school time (afterschool, school breaks and summer). The children that attend are in Kindergarten through 5th grade. Teens attend during after school hours and mentor younger students while staff help support them with home work assistance and arts and living values training. We have begun a teen leadership program that meets from 6:00-9:00pm on week nights, where youth are provided with leadership and life skills training in addition to the arts, living values and academic support. Our unique and highly effective program elements include: 
Cultural Arts Instruction with an emphasis on visual and performing arts, taught by master artists.  Students are provided with an introduction to the arts through general instruction in drama, music, dance and mixed media (painting, drawing, and sculpture) via professionally applied techniques.
Living Values Education is a values-based education program endorsed by the United Nations to help children develop key personal and social characteristics including: Peace, Love, Respect, Responsibility, Happiness, Cooperation, Humility, Honesty, Tolerance, Simplicity, Freedom and Unity. Students participating in this program increase their self esteem, their ability to accept all human kind, and their capability to make appropriate choices when faced with conflict or adversity.

 Academic Enrichment provides children who are at the highest risk of school failure with one-on-one academic support by staff and mentors/volunteers to ensure school success.  97% of children who come to us at risk of school failure are promoted to the next grade.

Mentoring Miracles provides intergenerational, nurturing relationships to the at-risk populations we serve helping them form the foundation for lasting, beneficial connections in the future.  The center recruits, trains and supports adult mentors willing to make a minimum of a one year commitment to work with an individual child for at least one hour every week.  Children we are mentored for over a year are more likely to graduation high school, participate in a math or science fair, run for school office, or be recognized for academic achievement.  Additionally, children with mentors are less likely to try tobacco products, use drugs, get involved with gangs, have early pregnancies, and drop out of school. 

The Milagro Center’s 2011
“Passport to the STARS” Benefit
hosted by Ms. Linda Gunn
on April 28th, 2011 at 6:00pm at Mercedes Benz of Delray Beach
located at 1001 Linton Blvd.

You can purchase tickets online at www.milagrocenter.org
or by calling Gina at 561-279-2970!