Community Resources

Open Monday through Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m., the Learning Center in the Moreland Greens Apartments provides children from preschool through high school a quiet, supportive environment where they can do homework and join in activities related to what they're learning in school. About 35 students attend the center every afternoon, and 75 are on its roster.

Alvin Siegal, the chairman of Leader Mortgage, the apartment complex's parent company, included the tutoring center as one of many improvements he made to the development when he bought it in 1994. The center is modeled after a similar program that Mr. Siegal visited in a low-income neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles.

"There is a lot of peer pressure on children not to get ahead," says Rick Johnson, a general partner of the mortgage company. "We want...