First homework, then play

Once the homework is done, children get to join their mentors in games and crafts--including a boys against the girls basketball game!

More than 300 LLU students are mentoring

More than 300 Loma Linda University students have volunteered to be tutors and mentors at 10 different sites this year. The LLUMC Community Outreach classroom is one of 10 sites across the city where children and youth are mentored. Some work with kids from challenged neighborhoods, some with pregnant and parenting teens, some with high school freshman for whom finishing high school will be a special challenge.

Outreach Classroom provides mentoring location

Mentoring at "The Gardens," doesn't take place at "The Gardens" at all, but at the LLUMC Community Outreach classroom in the hospital's Support Services Center, a huge warehouse on the corner of Tippecanoe and San Bernardino Ave just across the Santa Ana River from "The Gardens" after-school site.

San Bernardino Mayor Pat Morris shares a moment with LLUMC Community Outreach Director Ron Graybill among the self-portraits painted by the youth who attend programs at the hospital's after-school site, The Gardens. The Mayor was the featured speaker at a meeting of the Neighborhood Association attended by more than 50 residents of the neighborhood.

Mayor answers questions from the neighborhood

San Bernardino Mayor Pat Morris was the featured speaker at the meeting of the Valley View Neighborhood Cluster Association. He fielded questions on topics such as imminent domain, water quality, and progress at San Bernardino International Airport.

More than 50 neighbors attend meeting

More than 50 neighbors attended the Neighborhood Association meeting under the tents that cover our outdoor classroom at "The Gardens," LLUMC's after-school site on Norman Road.