We welcome everyone seeking to take there life and family goals to the next level.

S.T.A.R.S. Community Development Corporation is dedicated to uplifting disadvantaged communities in Las Vegas by disrupting at-risk lifestyles and helping individuals and families become empowered and successful. Our primary focus is mentoring youth by expanding our services that provide early childhood education, affordable childcare, elementary, middle, and high school mentoring, and striving to ensure high school graduation for our participants. S.T.A.R.S. (Striving To Achieve Real Success) helps individual kids by building relationships with their families. This approach enables us to support conditions and behaviors more effectively that help youth make smart choices.

We currently are serving more than 300 families in Las Vegas. We are committed to supporting family pursuits and ambitions by servicing children, youth, and adults, one household at a time. Providing service to the individual helps to provide service to the family, and ultimately the entire community. This is the most realistic manner in which we can help to introduce self-sufficiency to children and families who may not have had the knowledge or access to necessary resources to ensure this level of success previously.

Outcomes are consistent and compelling. S.T.A.R.S. student participants consistently demonstrate improved academic performances as well as improved classroom and community behavior. Engagement with strong role models and positive activities enables students who come from the most impoverished and criminally challenged neighborhoods to envision different futures than what they are familiar with. S.T.A.R.S. participants are also more likely to finish high school and are better prepared for college or employment.

We are already working closely with the Clark County School District, and S.T.A.R.S. has been written into a grant to assist with a literacy program serving Peterson and Paradise Elementary schools. We were also able to add science curriculum to our summer camp this year, using learning kits accessed through the Desert Research Institute (the environmental research arm of the Nevada System of Higher Education).