*Goodwill VISTA* Portland Housing Youth Services VISTA

Portland Housing Authority (PHA) provides and expands affordable housing and services that improve quality of life, build community, enhance safety, and promote personal success for the people served and the neighborhoods in which they reside.

The Study Centers are community-based learning spaces that engage students of all ages and levels. The Study Centers try to lessen the barriers students face through meeting basic physical needs, providing homework assistance, mentoring youth, and approaching learning through artistic and engaging activities. As accessible third spaces for youth with no attendance requirement or standardized testing, the Centers focus on student needs and interests to ensure that they feel safe, heard, and valued while also pushed to grow, learn, and explore. Drop-in programming in the centers follows the public school calendar. During school vacations and summer, the centers focus on fun learning activities, providing lunches for children, and teen programming for skills development through project-based learning internships.

To learn more, visit: http://www.phastudycenters.org/about.html.