The following organizations have contributed to the education of our students:
- Free Street Theater
Free Street opens the potential of youth through theater and writing to be creative, active participants in their own destiny. Perspectives has been fortunate to host Free Street as an after school club at our campus once per week since January 2008. - Street Level Youth Media
Street-Level Youth Media educates Chicago's urban youth in media arts and emerging technologies for use in self-expression, communication, and social change. Street-Level's programs build critical thinking skills for young people who have been historically neglected by public policy makers and mass media. Using video and audio production, computer art and the Internet, Street-Level's youth address community issues, access advanced communication technology and gain inclusion in our information-based society. Perspectives is lucky to have Street Level running an after school video production club this semester. Youth can also sign up to take a free workshop with Street Level at their facility - please see their website for more information. - Open Books
Open Books is a nonprofit bookstore, literacy community center, and volunteer corps dedicated to raising awareness about illiteracy, improving reading skills, and spreading the love of books in Chicago and beyond. Many of our teachers have taken classes to their facility for free creative writing workshops and Open Books also runs a free homework help and reading tutoring session on our campus for Middle School students. - Project Exploration
Project Exploration inspires minority youth and girls with the wonders of science and discovery. PE gets students interested in science, keeps students interested in science and equips students to pursue science. Perspectives has been lucky to have a number of our students accepted into great Project Exploration programs such as Dinosaur Giants and Junior Paleontologists. Additionally, PE runs their after school program, Sisters 4 Science, on a number of our campuses. - Girls in the Game
Girls in the Game believes all girls deserve access to sports & fitness activities and health education. Sports build character and teach girls important life lessons they can use in the classroom and their everyday lives. GIG runs an excellent after school program for our High School girls once per week throughout the school year. - Building with Books
Building with Books (BwB) is a non-profit organization that empowers primarily urban U.S. high school students through in-class and intensive after-school programs. In addition to tremendous contributions of community service in their own cities and neighborhoods, BwB youth actually build schools and bring literacy to children and adults in developing countries around the world. BwB programs are designed to build confidence and real-world capabilities in American youth while also empowering communities world-wide to overcome the crippling cycle of illiteracy, poverty and low expectations by opening the door to education. Four Joslin students have traveled with BwB to help build a school and two more will join them this spring. - Junkgki Kwan Hapkido and Kuhapdo Association
Kevin Sogor has donated his time and energy to running an after school Kuhapdo program at our campus. The students who are involved are learning marketable skills and discipline and are having fun while learning!