Black Community Developers, Inc

Programs

Paw Paw's Day Care ensures that every child has a safe, comfortable and nurturing environment that embraces their diversity and enables them to feel secure and ready to learn.
Certification: One of a few child care providers in the State of Arkansas to receive the Quality Care Status from the state of Arkansas and serves as a training model for other providers.
Unique program features: The Day Care is community based and neighborhood centered. Its location allows persons without transportation the convenience and accessibility of a nearby facility. Many of the parents have been involved with various programs offered through BCD, the Day Care plays an important part in the continuing of care for the entire family.
Numbers served: 32 children daily with a maximum capacity of 62 age 18 months to 4 years.
Benefits/Outcomes: Students graduating enter the first grade functioning above grade level.

Our Club-After School and Summer Program builds and coordinates comprehensive prevention and support systems in at-risk neighborhood and communities.

Unique program features: Serves children ages 6 to 12 years. The Our Club Program is designed to empower the youth and their families to handle and solve their own problems. The program operates through an incentive component designed to reward youth for positive participation. The program is offered to youth as a deterrent to drugs, gangs, violence and other negative influences that are rampant in our society.

Youth Initiative Project-After School and Summer Youth Program provides the youth with opportunities and support within an exciting learning environment that teaches them to make good choices and to feel secure and hopeful about their future.
Unique program features: Serves youth ages 13 to 18 years through different program components. Year round program with extended summer program for day and evening activities. Provides a safe haven for gang involved youth. Staff is available 24 hours for emergencies and provides support to the entire family. An intensive case management component is available.
Numbers served: 60 youth are served each day. The three program sites are open 365 days of the year with a maximum capacity of 25 youth per site.
Cost: BCD receives grants or contracts for services to support this program.

Hoover Center/Neighborhood Support Center Substance Abuse Program provides persons who are addicted to drugs and alcohol with housing and other support to help them transition back to a healthy, drug-free and productive life.

Certification: The only Arkansas Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Prevention (BADAP) certified faith based substance abuse program operating in Little Rock.
Unique program features: Provides prevention, intervention, treatment and after-care. Clients receive a complete health assessment, job readiness and life skills training, referrals for mental health and other health related issues. The substance abuse program is a 24-hour residential program which includes out-patient services. A client's stay in the program ranges between 60 to 90 days.
Cost: BCD operates the program through donations, state contracts and grants.
Numbers Served: 550 persons are served each year.
Benefits/Outcomes: 70% of the clients are employed when they leave the program. 50% or more are reunited with their family unit. Former clients come back to give their time, share their experiences and serve as volunteers.

BCD Permanent Affordable Housing Program provides affordable housing that is safe, decent and desirable housing alternatives in the city of Little Rock in the midtown community.
Certification: BCD has met the requirements to be certified a Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) under the Home investment partnership program by the city of Little Rock. CHDO certification status allows our organization to access funding to enhance the housing program for rehabilitation of distressed housing for new development , reconstruction and or rehabilitation.

Unique program features: This program provides scattered single-family permanent housing for persons from the midtown community with special preference given to persons participating in the BCD Homeless Supportive Housing program.
Numbers served: 20 families and individuals.
Benefits/Outcomes: One residence has purchased through the program. A single male participant of the BCD Homeless Supportive Housing Program purchased a home 12 months after transitioning to permanent housing. There are three Hoover Center former clients who rent proprieties acquired under this program.

Minority AIDS Network works directly with minority persons who have been diagnosed HIV positive or with AIDS. The program assists clients with locating adequate health services and providing emergency shelter, rental and utility assistance referrals.

Unique program features. The program was initiated in 1990 in response to the alarming rate of newly diagnosed HIV and AIDS cases in the minority community. The state of Arkansas had no infrastructure in place to effectively address the impact of the virus in the minority community. The community was also in denial regarding their risk factors, and education and awareness were critical concerns.

BCD's Recovery Programs are culturally based and gender sensitive, calling upon the experience of the community and the extended family concept. The BCD-Hoover Center operates as an extended family that accepts and loves everyone unconditionally, celebrates diversity, and struggles for justice. People of all races, classes, cultures, beliefs and conditions can be restored. At BCD-Hoover Center persons are encouraged to recover not only from their chemical addictions but also from the causes of their additions -- which may include racism, poverty, incest, violence, battering, rejection.

BCD Hoover Recovery Programs are comprehensive, designed to meet the needs of the total individual from the basic services of food, clothing, and shelter to empowering programs that help people move to recovery, independence and healthy relationships.

BCD Recovery Program Provides:

5 week outpatient program (8 hours/day; 7 days/week)
Recovery groups meet twice a day, Monday through Friday and once on Saturdays and Sundays. Participants learn to define themselves, tell their stories, learn to resist drug use and discover themselves and the causes of their chemical dependency in a non-judgmental, non- anonymous, loving and demanding circle of peers and substance counselors.
Aftercare counseling and support is offered to recovering alumni to help them remain substance free.

Outpatient Program:

Gender Specific Groups
Co-dependency Support Groups and Counseling
Family Reunification
Anger Management
Women's Programs
Self Esteem Support Group
Money Management
Social Skills
Legal Assistance

Wellness Classes

Health Screenings

Program Participants Receiving Service:

125 People per month
90% African Americans
10% White
58% Male
42% Female

Success Rate of the Recovery Programs:

Substance abuse program alumni report 80% success rate (living drug free for more than 6 months)

75% of child protective services cases end in family reunification