Grantees

A summer literacy program at the Westminster School

A six week summer mountain bike program open to all kids in the Lamoille Valley between the ages of 11 to 16. The program teaches youth about the sport of mountain biking hwile providing educational lessons on health, fitness, community responsibility and other basic life skills within a positive peer group monitored by trained professionals.

Help children succeed in school through reading and math enrichment groups in after school time. Children will be exposed to and involved with activities that build on the school's math and reading curriculums.

A summer reading program.

Live Your Why: Passport Edition is a dynamic series of programs to help middle-school students and their parent/caregivers to connect with the community and build resilience and social connections. Healthy Lamoille Valley, a program of the Lamoille Family Center, works with a coalition of community partners to provide education and prevention efforts against teen substance misuse. Kids feeling welcome and valued by their community is a factor that helps reduce these problems. Data shows that middle schoolers in the Lamoille Valley don’t feel valued or connected in their community, and these programs will help improve their feeling of connection.

We are establishing a licensed afterschool program under the supervision of Mary Johnson Children’s Center; our request would help to initiate and support programming for up to 25 children per day. At the request of parents of Weybridge, and their school principal, we surveyed the need for and interest in afterschool programming. In addition to meeting the needs indicated in the survey results, the recent consolidation of schools in the Addison Central Supervisory Union has implications for a possible re-distribution of students that would increase enrollment at the Weybridge school, and add more potential participants in afterschool programming. The proposed program would benefit the larger community, in this way as well.

Promote learning opportuniites that make school success obtainable for all children, reinforce and enhance math instruction that is given to cildren during the school day; engage parents in the math learning process by aving them be learning partners; create community learning partners for children; link math learning to real life experience, and have fun.