GoZones!

Building Stronger Neighborhoods
Director Shontina R. Tipton, 264-9303 x142,

Over 1,000 youth have spent time at one of our GoZones! sites.  The youth and their families participate in mentoring, tutoring, character education, learning community responsibilities and positive activities from our AmeriCorp members and community volunteers.

The GoZones! mission is to strengthen neighborhoods by providing activities and educational opportunities that enrich the lives of the children, youth, families, and individuals in our community.

GoZones! goals:

Provide good options and great opportunities for those it serves by collaborating with Inter-Faith Ministries, local congregations, nonprofit organizations, the City of Wichita, and AmeriCorps to address family, individual and community needs..

Strengthen our community by identifying neighborhood assets and resources to benefit youth and families and to broaden the range in which neighborhoods can sustain themselves.

Train and empower AmeriCorps members with youth and family-focused skills and a sense of national identity, accomplishment, and pride for the services they perform.

Who benefits:

You! Implement your dream. Accomplish what you once thought seemed impossible. Inter-Faith Ministries GoZones! will give each one of us the power to build programs that will create a safe and secure community and that will have long-lasting change, not only in your neighborhood, but the entire city of Wichita, Kansas.

GoZones! programming is provided at no or low cost to the participants.

GoZones! sites help bring neighborhoods together through monthly community events, block parties, community dinners, health and career fairs, and many different sources of information that prove to be beneficial to the community.
Strong Neighborhood + Strong community = Success. That is a GoZones! promise.

GoZones! locations:

GoZones! at Fairmount
1650 N. Fairmount, 682-1597
Sat. neighborhood programs 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Internet computer lab, English conversation, activities for kids age 4-12, nutritional snacks.

GoZones! at St. Paul’s Lutheran
925 N. Waco, 263-0810
After-school K - 5th, adult ESOL, nutritional snacks

GoZones! at Woodland UMC
1100 W. 15th N., 265-6669
After-school K - 5th, neighborhood activities, nutritional snacks

GoZones! at Forever Crowned Ministry
2049 E. 9th St. N., 267-1244
GED, after-school K - 5th, nutritional snacks

GoZones! at Orchard Park
4808 W. 9th St., 337-9244
After-school K - 8th, nutritional snacks

Tri-Villa GoZones!
848 N. Market, 219-9117
Neighborhood activities, nutritional snacks

GoZones! at Wichita Community Action
1411 N. Kansas, 264-2025
After-school activities, nutritional snacks

GoZones! Brookside Senior Center
Brookside UMC, 2760 S. Roosevelt, 239-6741
Senior activities, support groups, nutritional snacks

GoZones! West Side Baptist Church
304 S. Seneca, 262-7244
GoZones! Service Site

GoZones! also collaborates with the Inter-Faith Ministries programs CTECH (the Kansas Benefit Bank) and Faith In Action. For more information see Program Links above.

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