Lahc - Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities

Healthy living program is focused on empowering adults,children and families in underserved Communities to take control of their own health. Through a combination of cooking and fitness classes and handson nutritional content, program participants learn how diet and exercise directly impact their health. Our healthy living program serves early childhood centers, elementary schools, and local federally qualifying health clinics, Helping a wide range of community members.

Social services: Lahc provides an array of social services such as food vouchers, rent, mortage and utilities asssitance, holiday meals, back to school backpack distribution and basic necessities. Nurturing parenting program: this community based program aims to help parents raise happy, healthy, welladjusted children. Topics include being a good role model for your children, parental monitoring, appropriate discipline, how to spot signs of substance abuse, how to build your child's selfworth, and much more. Developmental disabilities & autism services: pathways empowers youth with developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and related conditions on their journey to independence as a young adult. An emphasis is placed in assisting youth to develop life skills necessary for community integration and lifelong success based on their needs. Youth will develop social & communication skills to promote vocational readiness, leisure enrichment and overall health. Mental health services: blooming minds a recreational therapy program utilizing evidencebased interventions to promote mental wellness through improving physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and spiritual functioning. Blooming minds aims to decrease feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression, promote a healthy leisure lifestyle, and improve on one's overall quality of life.

Substance use prevention program: the program discourages the use of alcohol, tobacco, drug use, and violence among middle and high school youth by addressing the social and psychological factors that cause people to begin these dangerous and unhealthy behaviors. Lahc's substance abuse program offers training on how to properly administer this lifesaving nasal spray that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Gambling prevention program: the program aims to prevent problem gambling among teens and young adults by developing essential knowledge and key skills to avoid falling into the trap of gambling addiction. The course particularly focuses on improving problem solving and decision making skills. The lessons are fun and engaging, including games like wheel of fortune and jeopardy. Intervention referral services our team of certified prevention specialists is on call to help individuals initiate, fortify, and maintain their own pathway to recovery. We provide resources and referrals to treatment centers while integrating each individual's unique needs.

Scholarship program: Lahc is proud and privileged to be recognized as a leading advocate of higher education and to have the distinction of offering one of the largest scholarship assistance programs in the area. Throughout the past thirty two years, Lahc has awarded nearly 2 million dollars in academic scholarships to area students. Youth leadership bridge to college program (ylbtcp): an innovative solution to equip high school youth with invaluable 21st century skills, the ylbtcp provides various seminars and activities that are focused on leadership and life skills, job readiness, college access education, financial literacy, educational and career goal setting, strategic planning as well as empowering them to make a difference in their Communities. Digital literacy program: these courses are designed to help adults learn valuable computer and technology skills needed in today's workforce. Topics include navigating the google suite, developing an online profile, managing linked in, instagram, and facebook profiles, as well as practicing online safety. Icode program: this unique handson steam education experience is geared towards youth ages 6-15. This program aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge to compete in tomorrow's technologydriven environment.