Empowering LA teens through safe, supervised programs that build confidence, skills, and community connections. Join 37 teen club sites across the city.
Discover exciting opportunities for personal growth, skill building, and adventure
Secure after-school centers offering tutoring assistance, creative arts, athletics, and diverse leisure programs.
Workforce preparation courses, career discovery, and hands-on professional learning opportunities.
Engaging educational classes that inspire teens and foster collaboration, leadership, and intellectual growth.
The primary goal is to provide opportunities for physical activity and social interaction, with less emphasis on intense competition, featuring out-of-the-norm sports.
An exciting experience often involving new and challenging situations. Adventures can be big or small, and they can happen in the real world or even through imagination.
Building Strong, Resilient Youth
The CLASS Parks Program operates 37 Teen Club sites within the City's 184 recreation centers. These selected recreation centers provide clean and safe, supervised after school and weekend enrichment, as well as educational, vocational, recreational, and adventure-based programs for youth 11 to 17 years old.
Since its inception, the CLASS Parks Adventure Program has taken thousands of teenagers on a wide variety of educational adventure voyages. Years of experience, planning, and scouting go into developing each CLASS Parks Adventure trip. They are continuously refined to take advantage of new experiences that help promote teamwork and camaraderie, leadership, social awareness, and other important life lessons that will last long after the activity is over.
Furthermore, the supportive, non-competitive atmosphere allows participants to appreciate others for who they are and make close relationships with people with diverse interests and backgrounds. CLASS Parks' extraordinary variety of Adventure Program activities and locations offers something for almost everyone, and guarantees something new, exciting, and different for its participants.
Although the Program focus and backdrop may be vastly different from one trip to the next, CLASS Parks' consistent program design and philosophy allows each participant to get the same "CLASS Parks experience" regardless of which trip or activity they choose. The CLASS Parks Adventure Program aspires to educate teens in adventure-based recreation through a progressive series of hands-on excursions and activities, often utilizing City, County, State, and National Parks, as well as local recreation facilities.
The Program offers activities that challenge youth in a safe, natural environment while encouraging them to acquire new practical skills. The Program is designed to help youth build self-confidence and teach them how to manage fear by gradually progressing from easy to more difficult adventure activities. The activities also strive to build trust, improve communication, develop teamwork, stimulate personal growth, increase enthusiasm, and teach awareness of the outdoors.
Eligibility: Youth who have actively participated in Teen Clubs and have participated in at least one community service project are eligible candidates for these activities.