The Garden Quarter Neighborhood Resource Center exists to enhance the quality of life of the McHenry community by encouraging education, promoting healthy lifestyles, and developing multicultural relationships. GQNRC provides an after-school program 4-5 days per week during the school year and summer. Youth receive academic support, mentoring and life skills education, and opportunities to engage in positive recreational activities and service learning projects. We stress the importance of education by assisting the children with homework and developing a sense of commitment to education by improving school attendance and setting educational and career goals. GQNRC also provides parenting education sessions in Spanish for adults in the Garden Quarter neighborhood and the McHenry community. Our bilingual Parent Program Manager facilitates these meetings and is currently undergoing training in order to provide Padres Activos, a parenting curriculum, to the parents next calendar year.