Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee

With safe places to learn and play, positive role models, and educational programming, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee has helped local kids and teens thrive since 1887, and provides after-school enrichment at Zablocki School in partnership with the school and Milwaukee Recreation. The Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center at Zablocki School provides K4 through fifth-grade students with a healthy snack or light dinner and supervised, structured academic enrichment opportunities that reinforce what students learn during the school day.

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee

The Catholic Charities mission to “provide service to those in need, to advocate for justice and to call upon others to do the same” has been their work since 1920. Catholic Charities supports Zablocki families through its Read and Rise program and Rohingya Moms Group. Read and Rise provides workshops to newcomer families that promote English-language literacy and also encourage reading and writing in a family’s first or primary language. Interpretation services are available in many languages to serve families from Burma, Venezuela, Somalia, and other countries. The moms group meets weekly, inviting Zablocki parents and caregivers to connect with other members of the local Rohingya community.

Junior Achievement USA

Junior Achievement USA is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices.

Milwaukee Police Department

Community liaison officers from Milwaukee Police Department’s District Six station host student of the month awards and the Great Kindness Challenge pizza party, attend every school assembly, participate in our new-in-2024 Read With a Cop program, and champion Zablocki School as volunteer fundraisers, tutors, and gardeners. Officers also lead our monthly Zablocki Walks.

My Very Own Library

Supported by Scholastic Book Fairs, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County has provided half a million books to students in more than a dozen schools district-wide and credited more than $1 million back to school budgets. The books are paid for by United Way and our sponsors so that no child or their family needs to find the money to be able to find themselves lost in a book.

Reflo

Annually, Reflo works with partners including Milwaukee Public Schools, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, the City of Milwaukee, the Fund for Lake Michigan, Community Design Solutions and others to support Milwaukee-area schools in an intensive, collaborative process to design and then redevelop greener, healthier schoolyards.

Zablocki School’s redeveloped schoolyard opened in 2023. Each redevelopment project is tailored to the specific needs and enthusiasm of the school’s community but often involves replacing seas of asphalt with green infrastructure including bioswales, rain gardens, and trees as well as outdoor classrooms, improved recreational facilities and arts opportunities. Designs go beyond removing pavement to maximize benefits for communities, the environment, and local economy.

School Community Partnership for Mental Health

Since 2009, the School Community Partnership for Mental Health (SCPMH) has provided intensive, on-site mental wellness programs and mental health services to students and families in Milwaukee Public Schools. The partnership began in just four schools and has expanded to nearly 40 schools, including Zablocki School.

Sebastian Family Psychology Practice, LLC

As Zablocki School’s partner organization through the School Community Partnership for Mental Health, therapists from Sebastian Family Psychology Practice, LLC spend two days per week at Zablocki School. Working with teachers, the school social worker, psychologist, counselor, and parent coordinator, Sebastian Family therapists get to know Zablocki School students and families. As trusted members of our school community, therapists bring age appropriate, evidence-based wellness workshops and therapies to our students and families.

STRYV365

STRYV365 is an award winning, nonprofit organization that creates customized non-clinical trauma-informed programming. Their program is designed to foster positive childhood relationships, strengthen interpersonal skills, and increase the ability to be resilient during challenging times.

Wisconsin Bike Fed

The Bike Fed helps lead and coordinate Safe Routes to School efforts in direct partnership with the MPS Physical Education Department. This is a federally funded program to increase the number and safety of kids walking and biking to school through “the six E’s” of traffic safety: education, engineering, encouragement, engagement, evaluation, and equity. Through the Bike Fed’s direct instruction, over 25,000 MPS scholars have participated in Walking Wisdom or Bicycle Driver’s Ed curricula since 2005. These curricula form the building blocks of other Bike Fed programs that aim to improve student mobility, such as Walk & Bike to School Day events, Walking Clubs, Bike Camps, and traffic calming efforts with the City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works.