Urban Ed Resources • After-School & Summer Opporunities for Youth

Playing2Win (P2W), Harlem's cutting-edge technology and education center provides youths and adults a creative environment where technological arts are the centerpiece of learning. Through independent study, group workshops, and one-on-one interaction, students gain experience in web design, digital art and video, music production, e-business, and an array of other marketable skills. (301 West 125th Street, 3rd Floor b/t 125th & Frederick Douglas near the A subway train)

Harlem Live is an internet publication "written, created, presented, represented by teens in Harlem and throughout NYC." Not only is there great coverage of Harlem events and people, but the site itself is a powerful example of what young people can do with technology.  Also check out  HarlemLive.Org's clickable Harlem Map . (1330 Fifth Avenue b/t 111th & 5th Ave near the 2 or 3 train)

826NYC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. The services are structured around our belief that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. With this in mind we provide drop-in tutoring, field trips, after-school workshops, in-schools tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications. All of our free programs are challenging and enjoyable, and ultimately strengthen each student's power to express ideas effectively, creatively, confidently, and in his or her individual voice.  (372 Fifth Ave, Brooklyn)

Offers various FREE after-school and summer programs for children of all ages.

Since 1877, The Fresh Air Fund -'" an independent not-for-profit agency -'" has provided free summer vacations to more than 1.7 million children from New York City's toughest neighborhoods.

Offers teens ages 13 to 18 tickets to dance, theater, music, film, museums and more.