CHAT

Every Monday and Tuesday evening CHAT provides academic tutoring for students in PK – 12^th grade throughout the Church Hill area from 5 – 7 PM.  Tutoring takes place in homes throughout the Church Hill community and serves over 70 youth on a daily basis.  Tutoring sites are arranged in part according to age and in part according to geography.  Students are provided with a safe environment to build relationships with mentors and other CHAT participants, receive 1-on-1 academic instruction, eat a nutritious snack, and learn about being involved in CHAT’s life skills classes and special events on other days of the week.

• What A Student Should Expect – Students may come as early as 5 PM and are expected to arrive no later than 5:30 PM to participate in tutoring.  Students arriving at 5 PM can expect to participate in some organized games.  Although each tutoring site is unique, each consists of a snack time, prayer, announcements, and tutoring time.  Students generally can expect 45 minutes of 1-on-1 tutoring with a volunteer.  CHAT has developed a reading program consisting of multiple books and reading comprehension questions, the primary use of the tutoring time.  Students are permitted to bring homework and request to work with their volunteer to complete school work.
• What A Volunteer Should Expect - Volunteers should arrive at 5:30 and can expect to be done by 7 PM.  Volunteers are paired with a student and work on any and all possibilities including reading and comprehension, crafts and activities, and homework. Although it is not mandatory, we are hoping to recruit volunteers to come on a weekly basis, providing some consistency to student’s lives.
• Our Annual Calendar – After School tutoring is broken down into trimesters, or three semesters.  Our Fall Semester run September through mid-December, our Spring Semester which runs January through the first week of May, and our Summer Semester which runs  for June and July.