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Fit
& Healthy Kids Coalition
Mission:
A coalition collaborating and sharing resources
to stimulate and engage the community in raising fit
and healthy children.
The coalition
meets about every 6 weeks and is working on numerous
goals including expanding community knowledge, attitudes
and abilities to adopt and maintain fit and healthy
behaviors; increasing opportunities and supporting policy
and environmental changes for physical activity and
healthful nutrition; and developing collaborative partners
in this work.
For more
information...
email: KWhite@vdh.state.vt.us
phone: (802)
257-2880
The
Greenwood School's Community Service Learning Program
The
Greenwood School is a boarding school in Southern Vermont
dedicated to taking bright and talented boys with learning
differences and learning disabilities (LD) such as dyslexia,
attentional difficulties (ADD / ADHD), or executive
functioning deficits and empowering them with the skills
and strategies necessary to bridge the gap between their
outstanding promise and present abilities. A comprehensive
3-year pre-preparatory middle school academic program,
including science, history, art, literature, music,
and athletics, assures our students are intellectually
challenged, creatively inspired, and factually informed.
The Greenwood School is looking for organizations to
partner with in our Community Service Learning (CSL)
Program.
Goal of the CSL Program:
Expand confidence, increase empathy, foster trust and
tolerance, and improve the socialization skills of the
students at the Greenwood School.
Purpose:
Impact the Greenwood students by introducing them to
service work – thereby starting the process of
witnessing the inherent value of “giving back”
to one’s community. Build mutually advantageous
partnerships with local and distant communities.
Some
of Greenwood's existing partnership organizations:
The Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation
Windham County Humane Society
University of Vermont Agricultural Extension, Youth
Horticultural Project
If
you are interested in helping us build a more interconnected
community, please contact:
Adam Jones
Community
Service Learning Director
The Greenwood School
14 Greenwood Lane
Putney, VT 05346
802.999.0066
ca_jones@mac.com
A group of stakeholders from the Windham County area
have been meeting for the past year to determine how
to support young people ages 16 to 20 that find themselves
without a stable home. This group has shared their collective
knowledge, formally inventoried existing resources in
the region, identified a continuum of housing need and
recognized the need for more information. A feasibility
study has been conducted to determine the best way
to use our resources to meet the most need.
The Windham Regional Career Center
hosts an exploration program for elementary
school classes from grades 3 through 6.
The elementary schools' visit to the Career
Center includes a tour of the facility and a
visit to 5-6 Career Center programs that the
Elementary students have chosen.
Visiting
the Career Center entails student participation
in a shop/lab/class activity. Examples
of these activities are: assembling a bird house
in Construction, creating a floral swag in Horticulture,
creating a web page in Web Design, and practicing
dance exercises in Dance.
The
purpose of the program is to provide career
awareness and development activities for elementary
students and to provide career development support
and resources after their visit. The Career
Center also provides a state-of-the-art classroom
technology demonstration for students and their
teachers.
For
more information
call:
(802) 451-3912
email:
dianehvt@sover.net
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