Grantees

Their infant/toddler program is replacing their tandem strollers to maintain the normal cycle of equipment replacement.

Purchse/replace equipment in both infant and preschool rooms.

We need an efficient and dependable trailer to continue processing the bottle donations we receive. This money stream is essential for caring for our equine partners who are the keystone to our successful therapeutic horsemanship program. If we cannot keep our horses in proper health and condition we no longer have the means to offer our services that have benefited Central Vt and the Northeastt Kingdom for years. While we only indicate two counties which are where this equipment will be ultilized, our clients come from chittenden, lamoille, orange, essex,orleans as well

River Arts is a non-profit community arts center located in Morrisville, Vermont, with a mission of enriching and empowering the community through the arts. River Arts will use this funding to purchase printmaking materials for our new classroom. These materials will enable us to offer more expressive opportunities for our youth through additional after school programming, kinderarts classes and our new youth healing arts programming. We believe that the artistic process is inherently therapeutic and educational, it presents opportunities for self-reflection and growth; it cultivates social emotional awareness, peer camaraderie and opportunities to become more empowered, resilient, and compassionate individuals.

The Rutland County Parent Child Center consists of five campuses that provide targeted family support to at-risk community members with each campus addressing specific community needs based on campus capacity and staffing. Our Madison Street, Rutland site currently hosts therapy rooms to provide access for families utilizing specialty providers such as speech pathologists, our family support case management workers, our community resource and workforce navigation program directors, as well as our high-school completion program for pregnant, parenting and at-risk youth. Currently none of these providers or programs have on-site access to a colored printer to support school work, printing marketing, outreach, or data collection materials.

We are a small non profit family cooperative school year preschool program located in Shelburne Vermont. We have been struggling with enrollment as families in our community need more hours than we have traditionally offered. We decided to expand our hours to offer a school day program and have great interest in this opportunity. We need funds to set up our space to meet the State Regulations to offer rest time and proper lunch storage for children in our care who will attend for a longer day. We will be purchasing cordless blinds for our windows to provide a darker space, we also need a refrigerator to properly and safely store the children's lunches.

Northeast Kingdom Human Services, Inc. Children, Youth, and Families Services needs specialized sensory equipment to work with children who require additional supports for sensory regulation. The equipment purchased for a newly designed SMART (Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment) room will enhance mental health interventions for an anticipated 10 to 15 children and adolescents each week. The beneficiaries are youth who may have experienced complex trauma, may have an autism diagnosis, and need help with emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal regulation skills. The utilization of this equipment will enhance their social and emotional development and build resiliency and social connection.

We are looking for help to add supplies to our classroom to foster the creativity and collaboration of our students. Specfically, we are hoping to add large magnettiles for our students to use to create together. Students can use this material in their imaginative play and learn social and gross motor skills as they work. Focusing on materials that require collaboration naturally creates opportunity for students to build their social emotional skills and practice their self-regulation. We feel that these skills are essential for the children in our community at this time.