Awards and Recognition


CCS Honored by NAA
Spring 2017
CCS and our own Bruno Marchesi have been selected as two of the National Afterschool Association's 2017 Most Influential in Health & Wellness.  Honorees are distinguished for their strong advocacy for and support of health and wellness in afterschool programs. Honorees were profiled in the Spring 2017 issue of AfterSchool Today magazine. Read the article here.  


Dr. Andria Fletcher and Kathy Lewis honored with the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition Community Leadership Award
June, 2013 - HBI leaders Andi Fletcher and Kathy Lewis have been honored as two of 34 Americans to receive the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition Community Leadership Award for their outstanding work in promoting physical activity and healthy eating in afterschool programs and making a difference in the lives of more than a million children and their families in cities and towns across California.  Read more.


Coach of the Year Award
June, 2013 - Ebonee Le’Treice, dance coach at HBI Learning Center program A World Fit for Kids! in downtown LA, has been awarded one of 3 Coach of the Year Awards by Up2Us, a sports-based youth development program.  Ebonee’s award category is “Obesity Reduction”.  She has coached dance at A World Fit for Kids! for over 6 years, and during her tenure there has built strong, positive relationships with her students and has seen incredible transformations in their health, self-esteem, and leadership skills.  Click here to see Ebonee in action with her Virgil Middle School Hip Hop Squad.


Harmon Johnson Elementary Wins Award for Excellence
June 2013 - Harmon Johnson Elementary School (Twin Rivers SD), home to HBI Afterschool Program Sacramento START, has been awarded the 2013 National Community Schools Award for Excellence by the Coalition for Community Schools. Read more.