Services
Many families and individuals come to HEP lacking access to everything from personal hygiene to medical care. With community partnerships and personalized case management, HEP is able to provide a variety of needed support services.
Keep Encouraging Youth (KEY) to Succeed Program
Provides academic enrichment and social skill building programs that reinforce school-based learning:
- Academic enrichment, including tutoring
- Drug- and violence-prevention programs
- Counseling and character education programs
- Art, music, and recreation programs
- Technology education programs
Programming incorporates R’ Club Child Care’s "four R's" - Respect, Responsibility, Resourcefulness, and Responsiveness to the needs of others.
Utilizes Pinellas County School’s Homeless Education Assistance Team (HEAT) for weekly one-on-one tutoring.
Services are provided Monday through Friday in the Learning Center, a newly remodeled facility with state- of- the- art technology including personal computers and a SMART® Board.
The Learning Center is licensed by the state of Florida as a child care facility and is free for all current and former youth residents.
To view the 2012 KEY to Succeed Annual Report, click here.
Program Partners
- R’Club Child Care
- Pinellas County Schools
- The Biddinger Family Foundation
- HEP’s Women Who Care Society
- Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Spa & Resort
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