Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion is leading a coordinated community effort to improve the literacy and educational levels of the entire Villa Victoria community. Our literacy imperative spans the entire life cycle starting at preschool and moving through college education. Our programs include: Escuelita Borikén is a nationally-accredited multicultural and bilingual pre-school program servicing 80 children in Villa Victoria and the surrounding South End community. Escuelita provides an education that fosters the physical, social, linguistic, cultural, and cognitive development of children in a challenging but self-affirming environment. Click here for more details Cacique Youth Learning Center provides a coordinated approach to youth development in Villa Victoria. Emphasizing project-based experiential, interdisciplinary learning activities, the program helps youth develop their capacity to think critically, solve problems creatively, excel in school, and become civically engaged. Cacique empowers low-income youth, particularly Latinos, with the necessary opportunities, skills, and supports needed by youth to succeed in school and in their personal lives. Click here for more details Bunker Hill Community College-South End Satellite Pathway Technology Campus at Villa Victoria –Funded in part by the fund for the Improvement of Post secondary Education (FIPSE) of the United States Department of Education, our Bunker Hill partnership provides residents with the opportunity to take GED, College prepatory and college-level courses while offering the academic support services, case management, tutoring, and advising needed to thrive. The overarching goal is to offer developmental education, career-oriented certificate programs and on-site job training opportunities that will create a gateway to higher education, self-sufficiency and higher wage jobs for a community that traditionally has not had these opportunities. Click here for more details