Founded in 1970, Harlem Children's Zone, Inc. is a pioneering, non-profit, community-based organization that works to enhance the quality of life for children and families in some of New York City's most devastated neighborhoods. Formerly known as Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families, HCZ Inc.'s centers serve more than 13,000 children and adults, including over 9,500 at-risk children. The emphasis of our work is not just on education, social service and recreation, but on rebuilding the very fabric of community life. The Children's Zone intentionally develops programs where other agencies are not located and poor children and families have no one, or even a place, to run for help.
From their business plan:
These twin principles — a critical mass of engaged, effective families, and early and progressive intervention in children's development — have led the Harlem Children's Zone in recent years to concentrate more of its activities on the families in a 24-block region of Central Harlem called the Harlem Children's Zone Project. Taking this concentration of effort to its logical fulfillment - reaching a greater percentage of residents in the Zone with a wider, more effective mix of services, particularly at earlier ages - is the first and most far-reaching of the imperatives of this Business Plan. In fact, most of the other imperatives flow from that one, and all of them rest on the same governing principles."
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