HAROLD COLBERT JONES MEMORIAL COMMUNITY CENTER

Jones Center embraces all age groups with a variety of activities that continue to express high principles and provide practical services to strengthen family ties, to emphasize the worth of God's children (all persons) and to answer a community need. Jones Center strives to implement programs that provide immediate crisis relief, recreational outlets that offset the stress of poverty and environmental circumstances, and long-term opportunities for personal growth and development. Jones Center was founded a century ago as a full service settlement house to meet the needs of newly arrived immigrants to Chicago Heights, IL. Today Jones Center is committed to the quality and continuity of traditional programs – after school programs, summer day camps, teen programs, programs for seniors, health and fitness activities, computer classes, financial literacy, and a wide array of additional emergency services and outreach events. The Center’s goal is to enable families to function effectively, free of crippling poverty, ensuring the literacy, numerical and technological capabilities of the young, nurturing the healthy development of the smallest to the largest children, and fostering the creative self-expression of children and adults alike. With its unique ability to honor traditional even as it initiates need-responsive change, Jones Center, ever true to its purpose, remains ready to meet all challenges.