The Bridge Teen Center
True or false? The Bridge Teen Center is located in Orland Park, Illinois.
True
True or false? The Bridge has two thrift store locations.
True. The Bridge has a thrift store in both Orland Park and Frankfort, Illinois.
True or false? At The Bridge, we offer a variety of volunteer roles that serve after school, on Friday nights, and at our thrift store.
True, we offer a variety of different volunteer roles at both our teen center and thrift stores.
True of false? Some fun programs we have offered at The Bridge include goat yoga, scuba diving, and a ziplining and high ropes course.
True. We have offered these programs and hundreds more!
True or false? The Bridge Thrift Store is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
True
True or false? The Bridge Thrift Store sells a variety of items including clothing, furniture, antiques, home decor, dishware and more.
True. The Bridge Thrift Store sells all of these things and more!
True or false? A few volunteer roles we offer are sound tech, afterschool support, and Friday night support.
True.
True or false? You must be a resident of Tinley Park to attend The Bridge Teen Center.
False. We have served over 12,500 different teens and families from 128 different communities.
True or false? The Bridge Teen Center is available to middle school students only.
False. The Bridge Teen Center is available to middle school AND high school students.
True or false? The Bridge Thrift Store offers a job readiness program for teens in 7th - 12th grade.
True. This program allows students to learn many professional leadership skills and gain real life work experience.
True or false? The Bridge offers opportunities for families, businesses, and schools to volunteer at The Bridge.
True. The Bridge offers many different group volunteer opportunities through our thrift store.
True or false? The Bridge Teen Center has an outdoor patio space with a garden where teens help grow vegetables and herbs.
True. The Patio space at The Bridge Teen Center was created during the pandemic. It is now used by students during Friday night events and afterschool programs.
True or false? The Bridge Teen Center offers FREE events on Friday nights with activities like karaoke, trivia, and more.
True. Every other week, we offer a Friday night event for students to attend.
True or false? The Bridge Thrift store provides 10% of the funding for The Bridge Teen Center.
False. The Bridge Thrift Store provides 31% of The Bridge Teen Center’s budget.
True or false? The Bridge Thrift Store offers a job readiness program for students to gain real-life work experience.
True. In this volunteer role, students gain real work experience and develop personal and professional leadership skills.
True or false? A master chef regularly teaches culinary programs at The Bridge Teen Center.
True. Master chef, Tim Bucci, leads programs at The Bridge regularly. He has taught students how to make many fun dishes, including sushi and a barbeque chicken flatbread!
True or false? The Bridge Teen Center only offers free music programs.
False. Program types include culinary, art, trade, music, wellness programs and more.
True or false? Our second thrift store location, Bridge Thrift Home & Restoration, opened this October.
True. Our second thrift store location opened just this fall!
True or false? We offer volunteer opportunities at both of our thrift store locations.
True, we offer volunteer opportunities at both our Frankfort and Orland Park stores.
True or false? Our Garage space has free arcade games like racing games, pinball, pacman, and more.
Yes, our Garage space has many fun arcade games for students to play, along with pool, air hockey, Pop-A-Shot, and more.