Providing Promising Futures

Bethesda Trinity Center is located at 462 West 18th Street in Erie, Pennsylvania. As Erie’s oldest neighborhood community center, Bethesda Trinity Center is dedicated to providing children, youth and families with programs and resources to live a healthy and productive lifestyle. Bethesda Trinity Center, a division of Bethesda Lutheran Services, Meadville Pa. provides Drug & Alcohol Prevention Programs, After-School Educational and Summer Recreational Programs with an emphasis on education. All programs offered at Bethesda Trinity Center are provided free of charge and open to children in the Erie Community.

• After-School Program (ages 5-15 years old) 
• Note: 5-year-old must be attending Kindergarten 
• Hot meals after school and throughout the summer
• Drug & Alcohol Prevention Programs, Evidenced Based Life-Skills Training Program (all ages), Anti-Bulling Groups, Social Skills Building
• Erie Arts & Culture Activities through our partnership
• Adolescent Health Rhythms (drumming circles) 
• Internet Access/Computer Lab 
• Arts & Crafts, Horticulture, Gardening
• Recreation: IBL-Basketball League, table games, field trips)
• Guest Speakers
• Family Night (game nights, movie nights, cooking, guest speakers, meal)
• Small Bites (nutrition and cooking)
• Crazy8 Math Program
• BOKS Kid’s Program (fitness and nutrition program)
• Junior Achievement (financial literacy)
• Homework help
• Volunteer Projects 

Afterschool Program hours are Monday-Friday from 2:30pm-6:00pm. 

On non-school days, the Afterschool Program hours are Monday-Friday from 10:00am-3:00pm. Lunch is served in our café at 12:00.

Summer Recreation Program hours are Monday-Friday from 9am to 4pm for ages 6 to 15 (Note: 6-year-old must have completed Kindergarten). 

For more information about the Afterschool/ Summer Recreation Program or volunteer opportunities, please call Esther Thompson, Trinity Center Supervisor at 814-724-7510 ext. 526 or Amy Helmer, Director at ext. 524.