"It's like a job. You have goals. You see results" -Yuriy, Experience Corps Member

Year of Experience Corps project launch: 1996

Neighborhoods served: South Bronx, North Bronx, Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn, Harlem, Lower Manhattan, Sunnyside Queens.

The Prejudice Reduction Project has recently been offered in:

• Bronx - PS 29, PS 161


• Queens - PS 99, PS 99 Annex, PS17 and PS 17 Annex, and PS 53, PS 50, PS 80, PS 156


• Staten Island - PS 42, PS 53, PS 22, PS 41, PS 80 Michael Petrides School


• Brooklyn - PS 261


• Manhattan - PS 36, PS 92, PS 314 and PS 19

Schools/Centers served: PS 1, 16, 29, 36, 40, 81, 92, 95, 129, 140, 142, 150, 154, 156, 277, 335

Students served: Approximately 400 tutored and 2,250 served by the Prejudice Reduction Project

Grades/ages of students served: K-5

Experience Corps participants: 233

Participant hours logged last school year: 72,000 in tutoring alone

Requirements for volunteers: Interest in working with children, completed application, character reference, TB test, criminal background check, 15-hour/week commitment, pre-service training and ongoing training throughout the year. All Prejudice Reduction volunteers complete a two-day diversity training workshop from the National Conference for Community and Justice and a six-day curriculum training workshop conducted by RSVP staff.