Higher Ground Neighborhood Development Corp.

Higher Ground Neighborhood Development Corp.
Oakland , CA
ph: 510-230-5120
higherground_ndc@yahoo.com

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Higher Ground Neighborhood Development Corp. mission is to provide services that address the intellectual development of young people through providing comprehensive after school programming, career to college workforce programming, school based behavioral health treatment, professional development, and service learning experiences. HG acts as an information storehouse on school/community-based service coordination for youth and the organizations that serve them.

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Black Joy Parade!

What Chant you wanna hear Ms. K

Students from Kipp Middle School

Higher Ground Believers

A few cheerleaders from EOP

HG Student Athletes 

Students are members of our Community All-Starz program! Learn more about them click here.)

Meet our East Oakland Pride flag football team!

Higher Ground's

NCA Norcal Champs

Baytech Middle School and New Highland Academy

Higher Ground's Baytech cheer team

Celebrating their victory with a partial paid bid to nationals.

Higher Ground's New Highland cheer team

Celebrating their first competition of the season.

(Photo Above: Kipp Students working dilegently on homework!)

service learning field trip with Brookfield Elementary Students (Photo Above: Brookfield Elementary Afterschool Program Students and Parents enjoy a saturday hike to learn about wild life preservation with Coach Archie!)

(Photo Above: New Highland Academy's Solar Rays Afterschool Program 4th grade Student tries on an Austronaut suit at the Space and Science Center!)

Higher Ground Neighborhood Development Corporation (Higher Ground) is a multi-service non-profit 501(c)(3) organized to provide supplemental services to children, families, schools and school districts. Our services are designed to provide the needed scaffolding a child needs to navigate the school community and classroom performance as they develop into young adults. We build resilience!

Higher Ground offers the following services in the school setting: results based cognitive behavioral health support, developmental recess that focuses on appropriate play, comprehensive after-school programs that strengthen academic concepts, service projects that build and develop our surrounding communities, cultural enrichment classes that help ground children family culture and history, and professional development around various subjects.

We also support our larger school community through our professional development project called Strong Roots. This project gives classroom teachers practical plans for transforming behavior and increasing social/emotional learning competencies in developing youngsters in and out of the classroom setting. As a part of the strong behavior project teacher coaching, grade level collaborative support services, and school based behavior plans are shared giving teachers a blue print to behavioral transformation. We help teachers teach!

Higher Ground supports neighborhoods by working with the city projects to extend service learning opportunities for local youth as well as special projects that focus on green jobs workforce development projects over the summer. Supporting County projects closes the triangle of support that is school, city, and county by providing technical assistance and community building opportunities.

Photo Above: Participant Youth from our Workforce Development Program working in the Sobrante Park Neighborhood, during our summer projects!

Internships Available: Click Here

Creatrix Matrix highlights women of color who create. Check out their dynamic interview and podcast episode with our very own Assistant Director, Khariyyah Shabazz who also leads our Youth Workforce Development Program!

Peer Workforce Program

You can Learn more about our Youth Workforce Development Program here.

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Learning in Action!

Check Out Local Hip Hop Artist Lil’Rece Visit BayTech to show our students how to make a beat like pro!Click on the image below for full video

OUR STUDENTS ARE ARTIST!

Listen to some of our student artist at BayaTech talk about how art has helped them learn to express themseves! Click on the image below to see the video on our youtube channel!