HELP (Hammons Education Leadership Programs, Inc.) takes at-risk and challenged youth on visits to numerous work sites around the city and the county to give them hands-on experience in jobs that might spark their interest. We give them the desire to either stay in school or return to receive the training they need to accomplish their dream. In fact, that is HELP's motto: "How can you find the job of your dreams if you don't even know it exists?"Students get to see exactly what each career entails because HELP takes students into the refinery; into the Police Academy; into the Fire Station, the Training Center at Del Mar; into the mechanic shop, etc, to talk to, observe, interact with, and shadow the professionals who are working in the field.

HELP Hits the High Notes is once-a -year fundraiser to raise the funds we need for this Program to continue.  We don't charge the schools, students or places we visit anything.  We depend upon the community to allow us to function.  We operate on the principle that people will give us what we need to continue if they want us to keep doing it.