Did you know that one of the greatest factors that influences the level of achievement of children is how they spend their summers? For the past 19 years, supporters like you have provided children with opportunities to grow in educational and personal development.

In this current economic climate, we are sending you an SOS! Your generosity is needed today to ensure that children in central Santa Ana have a safe place to be during the summer months to help them stay out of gangs and continue to grow.

We need YOU to Save Our Summer. For a gift of $49 you can provide a child with a nurturing safe haven filled with fun and challenging learning experiences for one week, and $294 provides a child with a full 6-week summer program.

Without summer educational programs at KidWorks, children “slide back” in school and are in danger of falling into risky behaviors - gangs, drugs, alcohol - that are constant temptations in the neighborhoods of central Santa Ana. When you give, you provide a nurturing safe haven for children one life at a time.

1. Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute (2004) . 2. Johns Hopkins University, American Sociological Review (2007)

1902 W. Chestnut Ave. Santa Ana, CA 92703 714.834.9400 www.kidworksonline.org

When you were a child, could you imagine your summer…

...without a safe place to go, caring relationships,and opportunities to continue to grow?

Santa Ana was named the nation’s

toughest place to survive ¹

Over 360 kids depend on KidWorks as an oasis of summer fun and learning

Over half of the achievement gap between lower- &

higher-income youth can be explained by unequal access

to summer learning²

100% of all high school students at KidWorks graduate in four years

Today, children living in at-risk neighborhoods of Santa Ana are facing this

devastating reality. SAVEOUR

SUMMER

“KidWorks’ summer program is an invaluable asset in our strategy of crime prevention. We depend on KidWorks’ summer programming to help keep kids with very few other options to be involved in an environment filled with positive role models

and that provides personal growth.” - Tony Harrelson, Santa Ana Deputy Chief of Police

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