This brochure provides an overview of the Community Learning Center’s programs and goals.  Sponsored by the Educational Opportunities Corporation, the CLC provided education and enrichment through the Intercommunal Youth Institute (later known as the Oakland Community School), the Adult Education Program, Cultural Arts Program, and Women’s Self-Defense Class.

According to the introduction, the CLC served as a “model educational and recreational facility,” an example of community survival programs in absence of sufficient government infrastructure and proof of the potential benefit to those involved.

The brochure includes the IYI’s curriculum for students aged 2 ½ – 11, in the following subjects: math, language arts, science, group art, political education, and field trips. The curriculum details learning objectives and connects classroom material to knowledge relevant in society,  such as reading, cooking, and using technology. In political education, students learned the importance of critical thinking. The curriculum section reveals that the IYI balanced both traditional education and learning through experience and observation such as art-based field trips and school experiments.

A note at the end of the brochure asks for mail-in donations to support the Intercommunal Youth Institute. The slip asks readers if they can donate time, materials, money, or contribute in a different way. Like the rest of the Community Learning Center, the IYI relied upon community support.