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 Phillis Wheatley CenterThe Phillis Wheatley Center (PWC) serves as a community center for the area offering a variety of educational, enrichment, informational, recreational and social opportunities for children, youth, and adults. PWC offers after school tutoring, summer programs for children, computer lab for community use (COPC), Sister-to-Sister breast and cervical cancer educational program, health education activities, community involvement opportunities, informational presentations, workshops, and more. Located in a residential area, PWC has a meeting room, classroom, gymnasium with stage, kitchen, offices and restrooms. East End Empowerment Program (EEEP) is housed in the Center and shares in partnership for all programming. Police Activity League (PAL) has recently relocated to the Center and will offer additional programs for youth to elderly. History Phillis Wheatley 1754-1784 Phillis Wheatley was the first slave and third woman in the United States to publish a book of poems. Transported from West Africa to Boston aboard the slave ship Phillis in 1761, she was purchased by John Wheatley as a servant for his wife. Phillis never became a domestic, but was encouraged to study theology and the English, Latin, and Greek classics. In 1767 she published her first poem and six years later her first book Poems On Various Subjects. Phillis married John Peters, a free black Bostonian in 1778 and she died in 1784 before her second volume of poems and letters could be published. Her final manuscript was never found.
Programs Offered PLUS+ Program PLUS+ provides an alternative to detention for males and females, ages 11-18 charged with minor or status offenses, and delinquency prevention for at-risk minority youth. The program is a result of a partnership between the LFUCG Division of Youth Services and the Brenda Cowan Coalition for KY., Inc. PLUS+ is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. PLUS+ provides intensive after-school services 5 days per week for 8 weeks to youth referred by social workers, court designated workers, counselors, probation officers, and school personnel. PLUS+ strives to minimize problems caused for juveniles who have come into contact with the courts. For more information about the program, please visit the link here . Sister-To-Sister Program Breast and Cervical Cancer Outreach Project A partnership between: The Phillis Wheatley Center and the Lexington-Fayette County Health Dept. For more information about this program, click here . Police Activity League (PAL) More information about this program, click here.
New Program To Open : After School Program Open Enrollment $25 Enrollment fee, due at the time of registration. $65 per week after. Transportation available from school upon request For more information please call: Mr. Michael Reese at (859) 354-3786 or (859) 948-8424 or pickup enrollment agreements at the location |
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