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Every year students and their families connect with the CAFE after school program. They receive assistance in their educational growth and individual success. CAFE parents also receive encouragement to participate in their student's education through training opportunities, family events, and assistance with accessing school day staff.

CAFE features literacy, reading, writing, drama, art, and math in an award winning after school program. CAFE fosters student success in a supportive and nourishing atmosphere for children of all languages and socio-economic backgrounds.

Increasingly children struggle in school and
there is a growing concern that students need additional out of school learning time to assist in their success.

CAFE creates that environment during the critical after school hours. Recreational activities, healthy snacks, and transportation are also supplied for children attending CAFE.


Helping Students Thrive
CAFE Connects Children with Success

  • Engaging youth in in their education
  • Helping children grow by overcoming individual challenges
  • Creating stronger connections between families and their schools
  • Strengthening schools and communities
  • Increasing the number of students meeting state academic benchmarks
  • Addressing the critical afternoon hours

Your Support
MFS Welcomes Your Support

  • Become a mentor or tutor
  • Organize with neighbors and parents to create a better community
  • Participate in our community events and activities
  • Contribute your skills, donations, and talent to bring out the best in a child

Financial support for Metropolitan Family Service CAFE schools includes funding through the 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Gresham/Barlow School District, United Way, North Clackamas School District and the generous support of corporate, private, and individual supporters.

For more information or to support, contact CAFE at 503.232.0007, ext. 150 or cafe@metfamily.org 

MFS CAFE Schools
Gresham/Barlow District
Highland Elementary School
East Gresham Elementary School
North Gresham Elementary School

MFS CAFE School
North Clackamas District
 Lot Whitcomb Elementary School
Rowe Middle School



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cafe@metfamily.org

503.232.0007, ext. 150

Metropolitan Family Service
1808 SE Belmont Street
Portland, Oregon 97214


 

  

   CAFE Summer Program

Summer programs keep children's minds active and prepare them for school in the fall.  One of the week-long themes for the summer program was time travel.  Kids, in grades 1 through 6, got to move from room to room leaning about different eras.

There were rooms for the Middle Ages, the Colonial Period and the Roaring '20s.

In the colonial room, students learned about the roles of men and women in colonial society.  In another room, students learned about Louis Armstrong and the golden age of radio in the 1920's.