After 15 years in East Knoxville helping children, we have gained understanding and the know-how that is effective and essential in helping a child develop. We reach our goals through many different avenues. This is because we understand not every child is the same. Some ways we use to help your child include:

• Academic Achievement: Our primary goal is to make sure that 100% of our students are progressing to the next grade level, on the honor roll. We can meet this goal by having each student complete homework every day and by giving math and reading exercises. We coordinate with parents and teachers to ensure the success of each child. Because your child is important, we go the extra mile to provide math activities that make math more understandable and more fun as well as language classes to enrich your child's learning.
• Mental Health: Many low-income residents, including youth, face a lot of environmental trauma. This causes social-emotional stress and leaves kids unable to process their emotions. With our partnership with the University of Tennessee Department of Psychology we are able provide weekly trauma informed group and individual therapy sessions.
• Food Sustainability: We strive to eradicate hunger among the kids that we serve. We have a community garden that provides healthy food options to our students, and we provide weekly backpack meals to kids who are in need. Many of our students would only eat at school, if not for our intervention.
• Economic Equity: Through our program, The Roots Collective, we elevate Black leadership and Black entrepreneurship through by way of mentorships, workshops, a coworking space, and access to capital.