LINC’s Caring Communities sites celebrated the power of community schools with music, student performances, science shows, art, dance, lots of fun food and more during the month of October.

The community gatherings join the nationwide celebration — Lights On Afterschool — that mark the many contributions before- and after-school programs provide their communities in providing safe, educational and charactering-building programs for children, while lifting the health and welfare of their families and neighborhoods.

Here are some scenes from a sampling of the programs across LINC’s 45 Caring Communities programs with before- and after-school programs.

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