Guiding the Path
to Success (GPS)
- Positive Youth Development
- Building Leaders of Character (BLOC)
- Guiding the Path to Success (GPS)
- Health, Abstinence, Pregnancy Prevention, Information and Nurturing through Educational Support Services (HAPPINESS)
- Kids Splash
- Molding Male Minds (M3)
- Project Building Resiliency through Anti-Violence Education (BRAVE)
- Project FRONTLINERS
- Project SELFI
- Violence Intervention Program (VIP)
- We Will Wait (W3)
- Youth Excellence Program (YEP Broward)
- Youth Excellence Program (YEP DADE)
- Youth Splash
Guiding the Path to Success (GPS)
K-5 students
Miami-Dade County
An after-school program preparing students for lifelong learning and well-being
Education gives us knowledge of the world around us and changes it into something better. It develops a broad view of looking at life. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on things.
GPS prepares young students for success with year-round after-school and summer camp programs. It is under our Positive Youth Development Pillar of Service. The program serves students at 5 community sites located in Little Haiti, North Miami, El Portal, West Little River and Homestead neighborhoods.
The program offers fun, engaging, activities including literacy, fitness, homework assistance, social and emotional learning, field trips, arts and crafts, STEM and supervised free play time. All participants receive free meals provided by a U.S.D.A approved vendor. During the school year parents are invited to take part in four unique family events designed to improve parent engagement and their student’s academic success.
Parents are their children’s first teachers, and they play a key role in shaping their character. A balance of education at home, in school, and after school shapes a student’s actual learning. GPS also conducts parent-oriented activities to help strengthen their children’s motivation to learn.
Students attend Monday through Friday from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. During spring break, summer, and teacher planning days, GPS operates from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It is Funded by the Children’s Trust.