Girls After School Academy in San Francisco, California, is an after school facility. We offer at-risk girls, ages 6 to 24, an opportunity to receive free after school care and educational programs. In operation since 1993, our academy provides comprehensive leadership and empowerment programs for girls that include:
After School Programs
Enhanced Academics
Gender & Ethnic Pride
Leadership Training
Wellness Programs
After School Programs We have girls come to us for help with their homework so we make sure to offer homework assistance as well as tutorial help. Our academy also assists the girls with lessons on solving problems in their personal lives. We utilize math and reading comprehension improvement that will serve them now and in the future.
Enhanced Academics Our academy offers girls enhanced academics. Girls are taught about basic, personal economics. They learn about banking services and the importance of savings accounts and related topics that will help them become more self-sufficient as they grow older.
The Girls After School Academy(GASA) offer projects and services that are designed with realistic steps to develop each young woman's educational, economic, and personal capacity so that she can reach her goals. GASA is a comprehensive after school program, focused on empowering young women of color, ages 6 - 24 years old, living in San Francisco public housing and from low-income families to develop and grow to be healthy, productive adults. The primary program site, located in the Sunnydale housing project, serves girls in the city's most isolated, under-served, and dangerous housing development.
GASA encourages the notion of "giving back". Each program area is based upon the principles of Kwanzaa, which are embedded in GASA's youth development model. GASA facilitates educational and cultural activities for predominately African American girls. GASA girls experience learning in three developmentally age appropriate groups: "Twinkling Stars" (6 - 13 years old); "Shining Stars" (14 - 15 years old) and "Brilliant Stars" (16 to 24 years old).
Contact our academy for more information about all of the after school programs we have to help enrich the lives of our at-risk girls in the San Francisco, California, area.
