Right Fit Indiana

What We Do

RightFit Overview

The RightFit afterschool program provides homework help, nutrition education, physical fitness, personal development, and dinner. These program segments occupy from 30-60 minutes on the clock, and each school works diligently to mix and match student after-school schedules with optimum program performance time periods. RightFit partners with public safety personnel, university students and other volunteers to assist with programming. The schools may also utilize parents and other volunteers to supplement the RightFit-provided ranks.

Purpose and Need

RightFit operates in schools where over 90% of students receive free or reduced lunch. Closing academic disparities is a strong focus of programing.

 Students from IUPUI, Ivy Tech, Marian University, and the University of Indianapolis receive service learning credit by volunteering for RightFit. The short-term benefit from these volunteers is that students receive homework help and see grade improvement. In the long-term, positive relationships develop between inner-city students and public safety officials, and students are exposed to mentors who are college students, which hopefully can impact their mindset of what is possible in life