The Beach Flats Community Center is a community and family resource center in the heart of the largely low-income, Latino neighborhood of Beach Flats. Our mission is to improve the living and social conditions of children, families and individuals living in the Beach Flats neighborhood. In partnership with families and neighbors, we play a critical role in building healthy families and communities while providing programming that is flexible and continuously responsive to community and family need.
What we do:
- Information and referral including housing and jobs information
- Translation assistance
- Parent education and support
- Public computer lab
- After-school programming
- Cultural events and activities
- Neighborhood clean-ups
- Gardening opportunities in Beach Flats garden and Poet's Park
- Community development activities
The Beach Flats Community Center:
- Provides a vehicle to access and bridge neighbors to available services and resources in the Greater Santa Cruz community, increasing youth and family opportunities.
- Provides a neighborhood and community public gathering space. As a neighborhood and community hub where families gather and access the tools needed to help their families thrive and succeed.
- Manages and coordinates the effective use of the Beach Flats Community Center facility to ensure access to residents to neighborhood resources.
- Effectively collaborates and makes deep connections within our networks to increase the depth of service over time.
- Over 16 years, continues to provide a constant organizational presence through which a great number of services flow in and out of the Beach Flats neighborhood.
