Centro de Salud Health Clinic
Emergency Clothing Room
THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS ARE OPEN AT WESLEY CENTER:
Emergency Food Program
Youth Services Program
Community Garden
Seniors Program
Women's Support Group
Mobile Mammogram Services
Health Screenings
Limited space for other community-based programs such as the local Neighborhood Association, Probation Meetings, Life Skills Classes
Since 1950, Wesley Center has served, through its programs and services, the low-income, primarily Hispanic families, residing in this south-central Phoenix of Nuestro Barrio.
The challenges for this community are often overwhelming involving all issues of extreme poverty:
* Lack of education and employment
* High crime rate and school dropout issues
* Domestic violence and substance abuse
* Health issues such as diabetes – asthma – depression –etc.
Wesley Center addresses these challenges by promoting empowerment through positive change, through the following activities.
- Comprehensive Youth Services Program for after school and during semester breaks. Please see the link under Wesley Kids on the left for more information.
- Volunteer Management
- Adult-youth mentoring tutoring
- Centro de Salud Clinic – a health clinic that serves the community four days a week emphasizing health education. Please click on the Centro de Salud link on the left for more information
- Community Outreach Services – this comprehensive area includes the following:
- Exercise classes with a certified instructor
- Sewing Classes
- Community Garden
- Health Nutrition Classes
- Campbell Soup Label Program
- Free tax assistance for the Earned Income Tax Credit (seasonal)
- Christmas Adopt a Family
- Back to School Project
- Community Probation, anger management, life skills
- Neighborhood Association Meetings – Barrios Unidos Airport Action Coaltion (BUAAC).
- A unique area is the planned voluntary relocation of this community due to aircraft noise. The Community Reduction Noise Program (CNRP) of Sky Harbor Airport and the city of Phoenix have initiated a 10 year program for this project. (2003-2013). Wesley Center will cooperate with the CNRP and BUAAC to provide timely information to the community.
